Head to head
Northflank vs Supabase
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
31/100 | 55/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #10 | #2 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | — | 65 |
| AI Authority | 14 | 59 |
| Web Authority | — | 27 |
| Expert Assessment | 60 | 66 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | nf-compute-10 at $2.70/month (0.1 shared vCPU, 256 MB) plus $0.15/GB/month disk · free tier: Sandbox: always-on compute with "no sleeping", 2 free services, 1 free database (addon), 2 free cron jobs, 2 projects, unlimited users; compute and vertical scaling marked "Limited"; free worker clusters run on Azure | Pro from $25/mo (additional projects from $10/mo) · free tier: $0/mo: unlimited API requests, 50,000 MAU, 500 MB database, shared CPU/500 MB RAM, 5 GB egress, 5 GB cached egress, 1 GB file storage, community support; projects paused after 1 week of inactivity, max 2 active projects, no backups/PITR/branching |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (consumption, per-second pro-rated) with a free tier and quote-only Enterprise | Subscription with usage-based add-ons |
| Best for | Startups and scale-ups that want their application and its database on one consumption-priced platform without seat fees, Kubernetes-adjacent teams that want the power without writing manifests, and organisations with data-residency constraints that need the database inside their own VPC via BYOC at no premium. | Small to mid-sized product teams with at least one SQL-comfortable engineer who need a relational database plus auth, storage and realtime from a single open-source vendor and want to ship fast. |
| Avoid if | Your procurement requires ISO 27001/27018, you need a published self-serve SLA, you want a pure-play managed database with engine-level tuning and no platform adoption, you need first-party regions outside North America, Western Europe or East Asia, or you must know total enterprise cost before talking to sales. | You are a non-technical builder, need SOC 2/ISO 27001/SSO/HIPAA at modest spend, require annual invoicing and procurement-friendly terms, want only a plain managed database, or cannot tolerate a billing dispute turning into a service suspension. |
| Markets | SMB, Startups, Enterprise, Regulated industries, AI/ML teams | SMB, Startups, Mid-Market, Enterprise (custom tier) |
| Founded | 2019 | — |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.