TablePlus is a focused database client that runs almost everywhere. Hydra is a Mac workspace where the database sits next to the servers and repositories around it.
If you live in databases and need Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra or BigQuery, or need to work on Windows or Linux, TablePlus is the better fit. If your databases come with web servers, storage and Git repositories that you otherwise juggle in separate apps, Hydra puts them in one library.
Both are native apps with a one-time license and a year of updates, so the choice is about scope rather than price.
From each product's own website, checked October 6, 2026. Prices in US dollars.
| Hydra Dev Studio | TablePlus | |
|---|---|---|
| Databases | MySQL and MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server (including Microsoft Entra sign-in), Oracle, SQLite, DuckDB, ClickHouse, Amazon Athena, Amazon DynamoDB | MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, MariaDB, CockroachDB, Vertica, Redis, MongoDB, Oracle, Cassandra, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Turso |
| Query and edit data | Query editor, data grid with edits applied in one transaction, export as CSV, JSON, Markdown or SQL | Query editor, inline editing, filters, import and export |
| Read-only safety | Per-connection read-only and agents-read-only modes, enforced for you and for automation alike | Safe mode |
| Files and storage | SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, SMB, S3 and Azure, with an editor that saves in place | No |
| Git | Stage by the hunk, commit, branches, push and pull, three-way merge | No |
| SSH | Terminals in a tab, and tunnels for databases | SSH connections for databases |
| AI agents and scripts | Claude Code and your scripts run queries through Hydra without seeing a password, and every statement that changes data is logged | Not listed |
| Runs on | macOS 26 or later, Apple silicon | macOS, Windows, Linux and iOS |
| Price | $99 once, with twelve months of updates; the version you have keeps working after that. Fourteen-day trial with everything unlocked. | $99 for one device, $129 for two, with a year of updates. Free trial limited to two tabs and two windows. |
You need Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, BigQuery, Redshift or CockroachDB.
You work on Windows or Linux as well as a Mac, or on an iPhone or iPad today.
All you need is a database client, and nothing around it.
Your database belongs to a project that also has a web server, a bucket and a repository. Hydra groups them in one workspace with shared tags and credentials, so production looks like production everywhere.
You want DuckDB, Athena or DynamoDB alongside the usual engines.
You want agents to query your databases without handing them a password, with read-only enforced per connection and every change recorded.
Your license should follow you to your other Macs: a Hydra license syncs through iCloud.
Add each database once under New › Database, or point Hydra at a project folder and let it find the connections already described there. SSH tunnels are defined once and reused by every connection that needs them.
The trial is fourteen days with no limits on tabs or windows.
Fourteen days, everything unlocked, no account required.
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