Comparison

PlanetScale vs YugabyteDB

On the evidence we track, PlanetScale leads this comparison with a composite score of 67/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★PlanetScale67

YugabyteDB59

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	PlanetScaleLeader	YugabyteDB
Vioscale score	67 / 100medium · 70%	59 / 100medium · 71%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✗	✓
Modelpricing.model	commercial	commercial
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	high
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	1	1
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	-
Iso27001security.iso27001	-	✓
Pcisecurity.pci	✓	-
Soc2security.soc2	✓	✓
Reliability
Sla pctreliability.sla_pct	99.99	-
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · HQ US	-

Score

Vioscale score

PlanetScale67 / 100medium · 70%

YugabyteDB59 / 100medium · 71%

Pricing

Free tier

PlanetScale✗

YugabyteDB✓

Model

PlanetScalecommercial

YugabyteDBcommercial

Price level

PlanetScalelow

YugabyteDBhigh

Transparent

PlanetScale✓

YugabyteDB✓

Integrations

Count

PlanetScale1

YugabyteDB1

Security

Disclosure policy

PlanetScale✓

YugabyteDB✓

Gdpr

PlanetScale✓

YugabyteDB✓

Hipaa

PlanetScale✓

YugabyteDB–

Iso27001

PlanetScale–

YugabyteDB✓

Pci

PlanetScale✓

YugabyteDB–

Soc2

PlanetScale✓

YugabyteDB✓

Reliability

Sla pct

PlanetScale99.99

YugabyteDB–

Status page

PlanetScale✓

YugabyteDB✓

Market

Availability

PlanetScaleAvailable worldwide · HQ US

YugabyteDB–

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for Relational Databases
Capability	PlanetScale	YugabyteDB
Core
SQL model	Full SQL	Full SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions	-	Full
Highest isolation level	-	Serializable
Consistency
Consistency	-	Strong
Scale
Horizontal scale	Sharded	Natively distributed
Replication
Replication	-	Consensus (Raft/Paxos)
Availability
Automatic failover / HA	-	✓
Deployment
Deployment	Managed	Self-hosted
Serverless / scale-to-zero	-	-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility	-	Postgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs	✓	✓
Licensing
Licence class	Proprietary	Permissive OSS
Data types
JSON / document support	-	✓
Geo / spatial	-	-

Core

SQL model

PlanetScaleFull SQL

YugabyteDBFull SQL

Transactions

ACID transactions

PlanetScale-

YugabyteDBFull

Highest isolation level

PlanetScale-

YugabyteDBSerializable

Consistency

PlanetScale-

YugabyteDBStrong

Scale

Horizontal scale

PlanetScaleSharded

YugabyteDBNatively distributed

Replication

PlanetScale-

YugabyteDBConsensus (Raft/Paxos)

Availability

Automatic failover / HA

PlanetScale-

YugabyteDB✓

Deployment

PlanetScaleManaged

YugabyteDBSelf-hosted

Serverless / scale-to-zero

PlanetScale-

YugabyteDB-

Compatibility

Wire compatibility

PlanetScale-

YugabyteDBPostgres protocol

Extensibility

Extensions / plugins / UDFs

PlanetScale✓

YugabyteDB✓

Licensing

Licence class

PlanetScaleProprietary

YugabyteDBPermissive OSS

Data types

JSON / document support

PlanetScale-

YugabyteDB✓

Geo / spatial

PlanetScale-

YugabyteDB-

What each one is

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

PlanetScale

Leader

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

Independently observed

YugabyteDB

A distributed SQL database designed for mission-critical transactional data, available as open source software or managed cloud services with multi-region and high-availability capabilities.

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

Leader

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 2026-08-03verify ↗

YugabyteDB

from $125/moHybridFree tier

From $125/vCPU/month. Free tier available. Storage and data transfer costs additional.

Standard$125/vCPU/month
- PostgreSQL API (YSQL)
- Cassandra API (YCQL)
- Change Data Capture
- Single-region fault tolerance
- PostgreSQL extensions
- +7 more
Professional$167/vCPU/month
- All Standard features
- Multi-region stretched clusters
- Read Replicas
- Row-level geo-partitioning for data residency
- Performance Advisor
- +3 more
EnterpriseContact sales
- All Professional features
- Customer Managed Keys (CMK) encryption at rest
- Single Sign On via OpenID Connect (OIDC)

as of 2026-08-03verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	PlanetScale	YugabyteDB
WebPlatforms	✓	-
CLIPlatforms	✓	-
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✗	✓
HybridDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

PlanetScale✓

YugabyteDB–

CLI

PlanetScale✓

YugabyteDB–

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

PlanetScale✓

YugabyteDB✓

Self-hosted

PlanetScale✗

YugabyteDB✓

Hybrid

PlanetScale✗

YugabyteDB✓

Integrations

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

PlanetScale

Leader

1 total

Vantage

Independently observed

YugabyteDB

1 total

Arctype SQL Client

Independently observed

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