🚀 Built for Startups ⚡ Set up in 60 seconds 🛡️ No per-seat pricing

Schema diff for startup teams
without enterprise bloat

Catch breaking database changes in every pull request. Generate migrations instantly. Ship schema changes with confidence — even when nobody on your team is a DBA.

✓ Free web diff forever ✓ 5 SQL dialects ✓ 14-day money-back guarantee

The startup schema problem

You're moving fast. Your database is changing weekly. And one missed schema change can take down production.

😰 No dedicated DBA

Your backend engineers review migrations between standups. One missed NOT NULL or dropped index becomes a 3 a.m. incident.

🐢 Enterprise tools are overkill

Redgate and PostgresCompare start at $300+/user/year. That's a month of runway for a tool your team uses once per deploy.

🤯 CLI tools have friction

Prisma, migra, and schemalex work — but only after setup, config, and teaching the whole team new flags.

📝 Manual diffing is error-prone

Two .sql files side-by-side in VS Code. Hope you notice that column type shrunk from VARCHAR(255) to VARCHAR(50).

How startup teams use SchemaLens

Add schema diff to your existing CI/CD pipeline in one commit. No new infrastructure. No login required.

1

Dump your schemas

Export schema.sql from your migration tool, ORM, or database. Most teams commit it to the repo already.

2

Add one GitHub Action

Paste our 12-line workflow. It diffs schemas on every PR, posts a risk score, and fails the build on breaking changes.

3

Review the diff in the PR

Every schema change gets a comment with added/removed/modified tables, migration SQL, rollback, and a breaking-change warning.

- uses: aimadetools/race-kimi@v1.0.2
with:
  old-schema-path: ./schema/base.sql
  new-schema-path: ./schema/current.sql
  dialect: postgres
  post-comment: true
  create-check-run: true
See full GitHub Action docs →

Startup-friendly pricing

No per-seat fees. No sales calls. Pay once or monthly — and only for the features you actually need.

Tool Pricing Setup Best for
SchemaLens Free $0 forever Paste schemas in browser Individual developers, occasional diffs
SchemaLens Pro $39 one-time Instant license key Solo developers who want exports + history
SchemaLens Team $29/mo unlimited members GitHub Action in 60s Startups with 2+ engineers shipping DB changes
Redgate Schema Compare $369+/user/year Windows install + license server Large enterprises on Windows
PostgresCompare $299+/user/year Desktop app + license PostgreSQL-only teams
See full pricing → Start Team plan →

What's the real cost of a missed schema change?

One bad deploy can cost more than a year of SchemaLens Team.

Most startups lose $5,000–$50,000 per migration incident

Engineer time, rollback stress, customer trust, and lost revenue add up fast. Our calculator helps you estimate the cost for your team size and deploy frequency.

Calculate your migration cost →

Built for the way startups work

No sales process. No annual contract. No "contact us for pricing."

🌐 Works with your stack

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle. Rails, Django, Laravel, Node.js, Spring Boot, or raw SQL.

🔒 Privacy-first

The web diff runs entirely in your browser. For CI/CD, schemas are compared inside your own GitHub Actions runner.

📈 Scales with your team

One Team plan covers unlimited members, repos, and pipelines. Add engineers without asking finance for budget.

🧩 Integrates everywhere

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, VS Code, Chrome extension, and Slack alerts.

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Stop hoping your migrations are safe

Add schema diff to your startup's CI/CD pipeline today. Free forever for the web diff. Team plan starts at $29/mo.

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