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Comparison

Amazon DynamoDB vs Supabase

On the evidence we track, Amazon DynamoDB leads this comparison with a composite score of 88/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Amazon DynamoDB full profile →Supabase full profile →
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★Amazon DynamoDB88
Supabase75
Score
vioscaleAI score
Amazon DynamoDB88 / 100medium · 73%
Supabase75 / 100medium · 70%
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase✓
Model
Amazon DynamoDBfreemium
Supabasefreemium
Price level
Amazon DynamoDBlow
Supabasemid
Starting price
Amazon DynamoDB$0.25
Supabase$25
Transparent
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase✓
Integrations
Count
Amazon DynamoDB9
Supabase12
Security
Certifications
Disclosure policy
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase✓
Fedramp
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase–
Gdpr
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase✓
Hipaa
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase✓
Iso27001
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase✓
Pci
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase✓
Soc2
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase✓
Trust center
Reliability
Sla pct
Amazon DynamoDB99.999
Supabase–
Status page
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Amazon DynamoDB7 items
Supabase7 items

Capabilities

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

Core
Data model
Amazon DynamoDBDocument
SupabaseRelational
ACID transactions
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase✓
SQL support
Amazon DynamoDB-
Supabase✓
Scale
Horizontal scaling / sharding
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase-
Replication
Amazon DynamoDB-
Supabase-
Query
Full-text search
Amazon DynamoDB-
Supabase✓
Vector search
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase✓
Deployment
Managed cloud offering
Amazon DynamoDB✓
Supabase✓
Hosting
Amazon DynamoDBCloud only
SupabaseCloud + self-hosted

What each one is

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

Amazon DynamoDB

Leader

A fully managed cloud database service for key-value and document data, providing automatic scaling, pay-per-request billing, instant availability, and single-digit millisecond performance without requiring infrastructure management or maintenance.

Independently observed

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.

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 DynamoDB

Leader
from $0.25/gbUsage-basedFree tier

From pay-per-request usage or provisioned capacity. Free tier includes 200M requests/month and 25GB storage.

  • On-DemandPay per read/write request and storage used
    • Serverless
    • Automatic scaling
    • Vector search
    • ACID transactions
    • Global tables
  • Provisioned CapacityFixed provisioned throughput with optional reserved capacity
    • Predictable pricing
    • Reserved capacity discounts
    • Write throughput provisioning
  • Free TierFree
    • Learning and development
    • Personal apps
    • Prototypes
as of verify ↗

Supabase

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
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

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

Integrations

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

In common (2)
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • OpenAI

Amazon DynamoDB

Leader
17 total - 15 not shared
  • 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
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
  • Cohere
Independently observed

Supabase

12 total - 10 not shared
  • Hugging Face
  • Stripe
  • Algolia
  • AWS
  • Figma
  • LangChain
  • Vercel
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Flutter
Independently observed
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