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Comparison

PlanetScale vs Supabase

No clear leader: PlanetScale (67.3) and Supabase (63.7) 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.

PlanetScale full profile →Supabase full profile →
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PlanetScale67
Supabase64
Score
Vioscale score
PlanetScale67 / 100medium · 70%updating
Supabase64 / 100medium · 70%updating
Pricing
Free tier
PlanetScale✗
Supabase✓
Model
PlanetScalecommercial
Supabasefreemium
Price level
PlanetScalelow
Supabaselow
Transparent
PlanetScale✓
Supabase✗
Integrations
Count
PlanetScale1
Supabase12
Security
Disclosure policy
PlanetScale✓
Supabase✓
Gdpr
PlanetScale✓
Supabase✓
Hipaa
PlanetScale✓
Supabase✓
Iso27001
PlanetScale–
Supabase✓
Pci
PlanetScale✓
Supabase✓
Soc2
PlanetScale✓
Supabase✓
Reliability
Sla pct
PlanetScale99.99
Supabase–
Status page
PlanetScale✓
Supabase✓
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

Core
SQL model
PlanetScaleFull SQL
SupabaseFull SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
PlanetScale-
SupabaseFull
Highest isolation level
PlanetScale-
SupabaseSerializable
Consistency
Consistency
PlanetScale-
SupabaseStrong
Scale
Horizontal scale
PlanetScaleSharded
Supabase-
Replication
Replication
PlanetScale-
Supabase-
Availability
Automatic failover / HA
PlanetScale-
Supabase-
Deployment
Deployment
PlanetScaleManaged
SupabaseManaged
Serverless / scale-to-zero
PlanetScale-
Supabase-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility
PlanetScale-
SupabasePostgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs
PlanetScale✓
Supabase✓
Licensing
Licence class
PlanetScaleProprietary
Supabase-
Data types
JSON / document support
PlanetScale-
Supabase✓
Geo / spatial
PlanetScale-
Supabase-

What each one is

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

PlanetScale

A cloud database platform offering both Vitess (MySQL-compatible with horizontal sharding) and Postgres databases for high-performance, large-scale workloads.

Independently observed

Supabase

A Postgres-based development platform that provides a full relational database with built-in authentication, REST APIs, edge functions, realtime data synchronization, file storage, and vector embeddings.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

PlanetScale

from $5/moHybrid

From $5/month for Postgres Single Node. Resource-based pricing with pay-as-you-go for storage overage and egress.

  • Postgres Single NodeStarting at $5/month
  • Postgres MetalStarting at $50/month
  • Postgres HA (PS-5 example)$15/month for PS-5 tier (1/16 vCPU, 512MB RAM, 10GB storage, 3 nodes, 99.99% SLA)
  • VitessCustom pricing based on cluster size, VTGate configuration, and storage
  • EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

Supabase

SubscriptionFree tier

Free tier with 5 GB storage egress. Paid plans (Team, Enterprise) with annual commitment available via AWS Marketplace; cached egress $0.03/GB.

  • FreeFree
  • Team-
  • EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
PlanetScale✓
Supabase✓
CLI
PlanetScale✓
Supabase✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
PlanetScale✓
Supabase✓

Integrations

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

PlanetScale

1 total
  • Vantage
Independently observed

Supabase

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

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.