Head to head
PlanetScale vs Supabase
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
56/100Higher score | 55/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #1 | #2 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 69 | 65 |
| AI Authority | 52 | 59 |
| Web Authority | 25 | 27 |
| Expert Assessment | 75 | 66 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | $5/month (Postgres PS-5 single node, EBS, us-east-1); $15/month for a 3-AZ HA PS-5 cluster · free tier: None — the vendor confirms the former Developer/Hobby free plan no longer exists and all databases require a paid subscription; there is no free evaluation path | 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 | Subscription (per-cluster SKU) plus metered storage, egress and backups | Subscription with usage-based add-ons |
| Best for | Engineering teams that want branching-based schema workflows with predictable per-cluster pricing, MySQL shops needing Vitess horizontal sharding without operating it, IOPS-bound workloads suited to Metal NVMe, and enterprises needing the database inside their own AWS/GCP account with PCI via Managed. | 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 | You need a free tier or a zero-cost evaluation path, run many production environments (each is a full-price cluster), need Postgres horizontal sharding or read-only regions today, require PCI on a single-tenant deployment, or your procurement process demands a large verifiable review corpus. | 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, Engineering teams | SMB, Startups, Mid-Market, Enterprise (custom tier) |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | — |
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.