Comparison

Amazon Aurora vs Supabase

On the evidence we track, Supabase leads this comparison with a composite score of 75/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Amazon Aurora50
★Supabase75
Score
vioscaleAI score
Amazon Aurora50 / 100low · 48%
Supabase75 / 100medium · 70%
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Aurora✓
Supabase✓
Model
Amazon Aurorafreemium
Supabasefreemium
Price level
Amazon Aurora–
Supabasemid
Starting price
Amazon Aurora–
Supabase$25
Transparent
Amazon Aurora–
Supabase✓
Integrations
Count
Amazon Aurora–
Supabase12
Security
Certifications
Amazon Aurora–
Disclosure policy
Amazon Aurora✓
Supabase✓
Fedramp
Amazon Aurora✓
Supabase–
Gdpr
Amazon Aurora✓
Supabase✓
Hipaa
Amazon Aurora✓
Supabase✓
Iso27001
Amazon Aurora–
Supabase✓
Pci
Amazon Aurora✓
Supabase✓
Soc2
Amazon Aurora–
Supabase✓
Reliability
Sla pct
Amazon Aurora99.999
Supabase–
Status page
Amazon Aurora✓
Supabase✓
Market
Content
Faq
Amazon Aurora5 items
Supabase7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for relational databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
SQL model
Amazon AuroraFull SQL
SupabaseFull SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
Amazon AuroraFull
SupabaseFull
Highest isolation level
Amazon Aurora-
SupabaseSerializable
Consistency
Consistency
Amazon AuroraStrong
SupabaseStrong
Scale
Horizontal scale
Amazon AuroraNatively distributed
Supabase-
Replication
Replication
Amazon Aurora-
SupabaseAsync
Availability
Automatic failover / HA
Amazon Aurora✓
Supabase-
Deployment
Deployment
Amazon AuroraServerless
SupabaseManaged
Serverless / scale-to-zero
Amazon Aurora✓
Supabase-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility
Amazon AuroraPostgres protocol
SupabasePostgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs
Amazon Aurora-
Supabase✓
Licensing
Licence class
Amazon AuroraProprietary
SupabasePermissive OSS
Data types
JSON / document support
Amazon Aurora-
Supabase✓
Geo / spatial
Amazon Aurora-
Supabase-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Amazon Aurora

A hosted relational database service that requires no infrastructure management, automatically scales with demand, and ensures high availability across regions. It supports PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, and offers a distributed variant for larger-scale deployments.

Independently observed

Supabase

Leader

Supabase is a PostgreSQL-based platform offering hosted databases with automatically generated REST and GraphQL APIs, real-time subscriptions via websockets, database functions, and vector search capabilities. It combines open source components to provide a managed alternative to proprietary backend platforms.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Amazon Aurora

Pricing not documented yet.

Supabase

Leader
from $25/moSubscriptionFree tier

Free tier available. Pro from $25/month, Team $599/month, Enterprise custom pricing. Usage-based billing for compute and overages.

  • FreeFree
    • Unlimited API requests
    • 50,000 monthly active users
    • 500 MB database size
    • Shared CPU, 500 MB RAM
    • 5 GB egress
    • +3 more
  • Pro$25/month for first project, additional projects $10/month
    • Everything in Free Plan
    • 100,000 monthly active users (overage: $0.00325/MAU)
    • 8 GB database size (overage: $0.125/GB)
    • 250 GB egress (overage: $0.09/GB)
    • 250 GB cached egress (overage: $0.03/GB)
    • +5 more
  • Team$599/month
    • Everything in Pro Plan
    • SOC2 Type II & ISO 27001 compliance
    • Project-scoped and read-only access controls
    • HIPAA available as paid add-on
    • Single Sign-On (SAML 2.0) for Dashboard
    • +3 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Custom pricing
    • Designated support manager
    • Uptime SLAs
    • AWS PrivateLink support
    • 24×7×365 premium enterprise support
    • +2 more
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Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Amazon Aurora✓
Supabase✓
CLI
Amazon Aurora✓
Supabase✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Aurora✓
Supabase✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Amazon Aurora

Not documented yet.

Supabase

Leader
12 total
  • OpenAI
  • Hugging Face
  • Stripe
  • Algolia
  • AWS
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Figma
  • LangChain
  • Vercel
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Flutter
Independently observed
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