Head to head
Supabase vs DigitalOcean Managed Databases
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
55/100Higher score | 54/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #2 | #3 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 65 | 88 |
| AI Authority | 59 | 23 |
| Web Authority | 27 | 31 |
| Expert Assessment | 66 | 70 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | 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 | $15.15/month (PostgreSQL/MySQL Basic, 1 GiB / 1 vCPU); Valkey from $15.00/month; MongoDB from $15.23/month · free tier: None |
| Pricing model | Subscription with usage-based add-ons | Usage-based |
| Best for | 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. | Startups, freelancers, agencies and small product teams running PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB or a Valkey cache who want a fixed, forecastable monthly line item and a console they can operate without a DBA — especially teams already on DigitalOcean Droplets or Kubernetes. |
| Avoid if | 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. | You need PostgreSQL superuser access or unsupported extensions, backup retention beyond seven days, wide global region coverage and deep customisation, contractual refundability, or very high connection counts on small plans; HIPAA buyers must also budget for mandatory paid support. |
| Markets | SMB, Startups, Mid-Market, Enterprise (custom tier) | SMB, Startups, Freelancers, Agencies |
| 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.