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Comparison

Supabase vs YugabyteDB

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.

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★Supabase75
YugabyteDB53
Score
vioscaleAI score
Supabase75 / 100medium · 70%
YugabyteDB53 / 100low · 18%
Pricing
Free tier
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB✓
Model
Supabasefreemium
YugabyteDBopen_source
Price level
Supabasemid
YugabyteDBfree
Starting price
Supabase$25
YugabyteDB–
Transparent
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB✓
Integrations
Count
Supabase12
YugabyteDB4
Security
Certifications
SupabaseSOC 2, ISO 27001
YugabyteDB–
Disclosure policy
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB✓
Gdpr
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB✓
Hipaa
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB–
Iso27001
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB✓
Pci
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB–
Soc2
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB✓
Trust center
Reliability
Status page
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Supabase7 items
YugabyteDB4 items

Capabilities

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

Core
SQL model
SupabaseFull SQL
YugabyteDBFull SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
SupabaseFull
YugabyteDBFull
Highest isolation level
SupabaseSerializable
YugabyteDBSerializable
Consistency
Consistency
SupabaseStrong
YugabyteDBStrong
Scale
Horizontal scale
Supabase-
YugabyteDBNatively distributed
Replication
Replication
SupabaseAsync
YugabyteDBConsensus (Raft/Paxos)
Availability
Automatic failover / HA
Supabase-
YugabyteDB✓
Deployment
Deployment
SupabaseManaged
YugabyteDBSelf-hosted
Serverless / scale-to-zero
Supabase-
YugabyteDB-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility
SupabasePostgres protocol
YugabyteDBPostgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB✓
Licensing
Licence class
SupabasePermissive OSS
YugabyteDBPermissive OSS
Data types
JSON / document support
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB✓
Geo / spatial
Supabase-
YugabyteDB-

What each one is

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

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

YugabyteDB

An open-source distributed SQL database designed for cloud-native deployments that provides PostgreSQL compatibility with high performance and horizontal scalability.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

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 ↗

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 verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB–
CLI
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Supabase✓
YugabyteDB✓
Self-hosted
Supabase✗
YugabyteDB✓

Integrations

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

Supabase

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

YugabyteDB

5 total
  • Arctype SQL Client
  • Debezium
  • Terraform
  • Helm
  • PostgreSQL
Independently observed
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