PlanetScale
Managed Postgres and Vitess MySQL with database branching
Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- 2 independent review sources
- 6 third-party reviews counted
- 2 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 0.91
- 8 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 35
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why PlanetScale ranks #1
PlanetScale ranks #1 of 10 managed databases with a TOP SCORE of 56.
That is 6 points above the category average of 50.
Its strongest component is Expert Assessment at 75; its weakest is Web Authority at 25.
No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
40 → 56 ↑15.8
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G2 ↗ | 3.9/5 | 78 | 5 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
| Trustpilot ↗ | 3.7/5 | 74 | 1 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude sonnet 5 grounded | 50% | 25% | 8% | 3.5 | 12 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| claude sonnet 5 parametric | 75% | 33% | 0% | 4.2 | 12 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| claude sonnet 5 grounded | 58% | 17% | 8% | 5.3 | 12 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| claude sonnet 5 parametric | 75% | 25% | 0% | 3.6 | 12 | 1 Sept 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- Product Hunt31 Aug 2026
- Trustpilot31 Aug 2026
- TrustRadius31 Aug 2026
- AWS Marketplace31 Aug 2026
- G231 Aug 2026
- Level Up Coding31 Aug 2026
- Smashing Magazine31 Aug 2026
- Hacker News31 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- PlanetScale is a fully managed relational database platform offering two engines — PlanetScale Postgres and Vitess (MySQL-compatible) — across network-attached (EBS/PD) and locally-attached NVMe "Metal" storage architectures. HA clusters run 1 primary plus 2 replicas across three availability zones under a stated 99.99% SLA, with database branching and deploy requests as the signature developer workflow. It targets engineering teams from $5/month single-node dev databases up to sharded, multi-thousand-dollar production fleets, including BYOC deployments in a customer's own AWS or GCP account.
- Category
- Managed Databases
- Products
- PlanetScale Postgres, PlanetScale Vitess (MySQL-compatible), PlanetScale Metal (locally-attached NVMe), PlanetScale Managed (BYOC in your AWS/GCP account), Enterprise single-tenant
- Markets
- SMB, Startups, Enterprise, Engineering teams
- Countries
- United States, Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, India, Singapore, Australia, Canada, Brazil
- Integrations
- AWS Marketplace, Google Cloud Marketplace, AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect, MySQL wire protocol (Vitess), PostgreSQL wire protocol, PgBouncer connection pooling, PlanetScale CLI, SSO / SAML (paid add-on)
- 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 pricing page ↗
- Regulatory
- HIPAA BAAs included on the Base plan for both engines. PCI DSS certified service provider status is available only via PlanetScale Managed; single-tenant Enterprise is explicitly not PCI compliant. Stated 99.99% SLA for HA primary + multi-replica clusters across 3 AZs, with enhanced SLAs on Enterprise. Audit log retention 6 months; SSL/TLS required for connections. Transactable on AWS Marketplace and Google Cloud Marketplace. No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification was confirmed in the pages retrieved.
- Official website
- https://planetscale.com ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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- This platform56
- Category leader56
- Category average50
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