We’re Launching a Free Edition of Studio 3T

MongoDB has been an astonishing success story since its foundation in 2007. It’s now the database of choice for tens of millions of developers the world over. Parallel to the MongoDB story, Studio 3T has become the world’s most widely used commercial client for professional users of MongoDB; users who are looking to get more done, and to do it faster.

Studio 3T launched in 2014 with two tools and a single edition. Since then, we have added Professional and Ultimate editions to cater to larger teams with more complex challenges. And over those eight years we’ve grown sustainably by focusing on what developers actually tell us they want. 

We’ve now decided to release a free edition of Studio 3T to provide for the ever increasing numbers of developers who are choosing MongoDB. If you want to try it now, you can download it here, or read on to find out more about how and why we got to this launch.

Why now?

In 2017 we took on responsibility for the popular free GUI project, Robomongo, (later renamed Robo 3T). We’ve been releasing annual updates to ensure Robo 3T stays compatible with the latest versions of MongoDB. But as time goes by, Robo 3T is becoming less and less useful as a tool. MongoDB has moved on to a new Node-based mongosh command line client which Robo 3T cannot work with.

We believe there is a simpler solution. Instead of building a whole new Robo 3T from scratch to work with mongosh, we are creating a far better experience with a free-forever edition of Studio 3T. The new Studio 3T Free uses the same thoroughly tested and professional codebase as Studio 3T itself.

What this means for the future

• Users needing a free tool will benefit from monthly maintenance updates instead of annual updates. 
• Free users get continuous bug fixes alongside users of the commercial editions. 
• Users of the free edition will always be compatible with the latest version of MongoDB.
• Access to professional-grade, shell-centric tooling for MongoDB at zero cost 

It also means that we get to streamline the allocation of resources within our development team. This will allow them to move faster to respond to all our users’ needs. Being able to focus all our efforts on a single codebase means that all our customers, commercial and non-commercial alike, will enjoy better features, fewer bugs and smoother performance. And all delivered faster than ever before. 

Community matters to us and as part of creating Studio 3T Free, we’re also rolling out a new support forum and knowledge exchange which will enable sharing of best practices and solutions to problems, centered around actual users of Studio 3T but with the added input of our engineering experts. 

As a dedicated, professional team, the 3T Software Labs mission is to create and continuously improve the very best tools in the NoSQL space.