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DBeaver Community vs Navicat for PostgreSQL: catalog facts
DBeaver Community	Navicat for PostgreSQL
Freemium The Community edition is free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. DBeaver PRO…	Paid Paid perpetual license, with a free trial available.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS
More than a hundred drivers out of the box, and anything with JDBC or ODBC SQL editor with completion, plus a spreadsheet-style data editor	Broad toolset covering design, querying, sync, backup and modelling Data and structure synchronization between databases
Eclipse-based and heavy; start-up is slow NoSQL and cloud-specific databases are reserved for the paid edition	Paid software with no free edition beyond the trial Limited to PostgreSQL; other databases need Navicat Premium or another edition
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License: Apache-2.0	License: Proprietary
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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