MongoDB vs Supabase
No clear leader: MongoDB (75.7) and Supabase (75.0) 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.
MongoDB
MongoDB is a fully managed cloud database that uses flexible document-based storage and supports complex queries, analytics, and advanced search capabilities including vector and full-text search functionality.
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.
MongoDB
Free tier (512MB), Flex from $8–$30/month, Dedicated from $56.94/month
- Free (M0)Free
- 512MB storage
- 32MB sort memory
- 100 ops/sec
- shared vCPUs
- replica set
- Flex Clusters$8–$30/month based on usage
- hourly billing
- monthly invoices
- Dedicated ClustersFrom $56.94/month
- dedicated resources
- auto-scaling
- horizontal scaling via sharding
Supabase
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
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.
MongoDB
- Vertex AI
- BigQuery
- Datastream
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- Looker
- Apigee
- Apache Kafka
- Google Vertex AI
- Google Cloud BigQuery
- Google Cloud Datastream
- Google Cloud Functions
- Kubernetes
Supabase
- OpenAI
- Hugging Face
- Stripe
- Algolia
- AWS
- Amazon Bedrock
- Figma
- LangChain
- Vercel
- Next.js
- React
- Flutter
MongoDB or Supabase: which one depends on you
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