Comparison

Snowflake vs Supabase

On the evidence we track, Supabase leads this comparison with a composite score of 75/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Machine formatsMarkdownJSONGraphQLMarkdown is open. JSON and GraphQL need a free key.
Snowflake68
★Supabase75
Score
vioscaleAI score
Snowflake68 / 100medium · 63%
Supabase75 / 100medium · 70%
Pricing
Free tier
Snowflake✗
Supabase✓
Model
Snowflakecommercial
Supabasefreemium
Price level
Snowflakeunknown
Supabasemid
Starting price
Snowflake–
Supabase$25
Transparent
Snowflake✓
Supabase✓
Integrations
Count
Snowflake750
Supabase12
Security
Certifications
Snowflake–
Disclosure policy
Snowflake✓
Supabase✓
Fedramp
Snowflake✓
Supabase–
Gdpr
Snowflake✓
Supabase✓
Hipaa
Snowflake–
Supabase✓
Iso27001
Snowflake✓
Supabase✓
Pci
Snowflake✓
Supabase✓
Soc2
Snowflake✓
Supabase✓
Reliability
Status page
Snowflake✓
Supabase✓
Content
Faq
Snowflake6 items
Supabase7 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Snowflake

Snowflake is a fully managed cloud service that unifies data storage, analytics, machine learning and AI capabilities in a single platform. It enables organizations to process structured and unstructured data, build AI applications and share live data across organizations and cloud environments.

Independently observed

Supabase

Leader

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.

Snowflake

Usage-based
  • Standard-
  • Enterprise-
  • Business CriticalContact sales
as of verify ↗

Supabase

Leader
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
Snowflake✓
Supabase✓
CLI
Snowflake✗
Supabase✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Snowflake✓
Supabase✓

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • AWS

Snowflake

9 total - 8 not shared
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Streamlit
  • Apache Iceberg
  • PyTorch
  • NVIDIA
  • Jira
  • GitHub
Independently observed

Supabase

Leader
12 total - 11 not shared
  • OpenAI
  • Hugging Face
  • Stripe
  • Algolia
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Figma
  • LangChain
  • Vercel
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Flutter
Independently observed
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