Hasura GraphQL Engine is one of the open source tools we're using for the Nhost stack. But it's "only" one of the open source technologies we're using.
Just paying Hasura gets you just Hasura (at least before Neon it used to)
NHost gets you Hasura, the underlying postgres db, pre-configured auth with JWTs, blob storage, functions and a client-side library to get all of that working together with nearly zero configuration.
edit: also, Hasura's cheapest offering ($100 / month) is still prohibitively expensive for indie projects (That's just Hasura - you would have to add database costs, auth costs and blob storage costs to that $100).
Just to add to the comment: you also have backups, automatic logs on all services, raw access to postgres (you can do whatever you want with it), custom integration with stripe, plus specific dashboard for users, database, and storage.
Hasura GraphQL Engine is one of the open source tools we're using for the Nhost stack. But it's "only" one of the open source technologies we're using.
Others are:
- Postgres. Who doesn't love Postgres?
- Hasura Auth: https://github.com/nhost/hasura-auth
- Hasura Storage: http://github.com/nhost/hasura-storage
- Serverless Functions (Node.js)
On top of that we have SKDs in JS/TS/React/Next.js/Vue.
And a CLI for local development and a GitHub integration so you can deploy your backend just like you deploy your frontend with Netlify and Vercel.
Hope that clarifies a bit.