Amazon DynamoDB vs Supabase
No clear leader: Supabase (78.3) and Amazon DynamoDB (76.7) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Amazon DynamoDB
DynamoDB is a distributed key-value database that handles workloads at any scale with zero infrastructure management. It provides automatic scaling, multi-region replication with strong consistency options, ACID transactions, native vector search, and built-in integrations for analytics and event processing.
Supabase
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.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Supabase
From $25/month for Pro. Free tier available with usage-based overages for MAUs, storage, and bandwidth. Team plan starts at $599/month.
- 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 base + usage overages
- 100,000 monthly active users included
- 8 GB database size per project
- 250 GB egress
- 250 GB cached egress
- 100 GB file storage
- +4 more
- Team$599/month
- Everything in Pro Plan
- SOC2 & ISO 27001 certified
- Project-scoped and read-only access
- HIPAA available as paid add-on
- SSO for Supabase Dashboard
- +3 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Designated support manager
- Uptime SLAs
- AWS PrivateLink support
- 24×7×365 premium support
- Private Slack channel
- +1 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Amazon DynamoDB
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon OpenSearch Service
- Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon S3 Tables
- DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- AWS CloudWatch
- AWS PrivateLink
- DynamoDB Accelerator
- Kinesis Data Streams
- CloudWatch
Supabase
- OpenAI
- Hugging Face
- Stripe
- Algolia
- AWS
- Amazon Bedrock
- Figma
- LangChain
- Vercel
- Next.js
- React
- Flutter
Amazon DynamoDB or Supabase: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
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