# Supabase vs YugabyteDB

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Supabase

| Attribute | Supabase | YugabyteDB |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 75 (70% (medium)) | 53.3 (18% (low)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under Relational Databases.","source":"https://supabase.com","question":"What is Supabase?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Supabase offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.00. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://supabase.com/blog/pricing","question":"Is Supabase free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Supabase supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://supabase.com/blog/pricing","question":"What platforms does Supabase support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Supabase, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://supabase.com","question":"Can Supabase be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 12 integrations for Supabase, including OpenAI, Hugging Face, Stripe, Algolia, AWS, Amazon Bedrock, Figma and LangChain, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://supabase.com/blog/pricing","question":"What does Supabase integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Supabase. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Supabase not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://supabase.com/blog/security-performance-advisor","question":"What security certifications does Supabase have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Supabase is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://supabase.com/blog/pricing","question":"Where is Supabase available?","confidence":0.5}]` | `[{"answer":"A cloud-native database merging the transactional guarantees and SQL compatibility of relational databases with the horizontal scalability of NoSQL systems. Designed for mission-critical, real-time OLTP applications requiring strong data consistency across large, distributed datasets. It is indexed under Relational Databases.","source":"https://www.yugabyte.com","question":"What is YugabyteDB?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"YugabyteDB offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $125 per vCPU per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.yugabyte.com","question":"Is YugabyteDB free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. YugabyteDB can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.yugabyte.com","question":"Can YugabyteDB be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for YugabyteDB. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as YugabyteDB not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.yugabyte.com/trust","question":"What security certifications does YugabyteDB have?","confidence":0.7}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | An open-source distributed SQL database designed for cloud-native deployments that provides PostgreSQL compatibility with high performance and horizontal scalability. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","isolation":"serializable","sql_model":"full_sql","data_model":"relational","deployment":"managed","consistency":"strong","replication":"async","sql_support":true,"extensibility":true,"json_document":true,"license_class":"permissive","managed_cloud":true,"vector_search":true,"full_text_search":true,"acid_transactions":"full","wire_compatibility":"postgres"}` | `{"isolation":"serializable","sql_model":"full_sql","deployment":"self_hosted","consistency":"strong","replication":"consensus","extensibility":true,"json_document":true,"license_class":"permissive","horizontal_scale":"distributed_native","acid_transactions":"full","automatic_failover":true,"wire_compatibility":"postgres"}` |
| integrations.count | 12 | 4 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"Stripe"},{"name":"Algolia"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Figma"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"Vercel"},{"name":"Next.js"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"Flutter"}]` | `[{"name":"Arctype SQL Client"},{"name":"Debezium","native":true,"direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true},{"name":"Helm","native":true},{"name":"PostgreSQL","native":false}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free with 2 active projects max, paused after 1 week of inactivity","features":["Unlimited API requests","50,000 monthly active users","500 MB database size","Shared CPU, 500 MB RAM","5 GB egress","5 GB cached egress","1 GB file storage","Community support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Perfect for passion projects & simple websites.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"egress":"5 GB","file_storage":"1 GB","cached_egress":"5 GB","database_size":"500 MB","monthly_active_users":"50,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$25/month for first project, additional projects $10/month","features":["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)","100 GB file storage (overage: $0.0213/GB)","Email support","Daily backups (7-day retention)","7-day log retention","$10/month compute credits"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"MAU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.00325,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.125,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.09,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For production applications with the power to scale.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"egress":"250 GB","file_storage":"100 GB","cached_egress":"250 GB","database_size":"8 GB","log_retention_days":"7","monthly_active_users":"100,000","backup_retention_days":"7"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$599/month","features":["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","Priority email support with SLAs","Daily backups (14-day retention)","28-day log retention"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":599,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Add features such as SSO, control over backups, and industry certifications.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"log_retention_days":"28","backup_retention_days":"14"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing and features","features":["Custom pricing","Designated support manager","Uptime SLAs","AWS PrivateLink support","24×7×365 premium enterprise support","Private Slack channel","Custom security questionnaires"],"description":"For large-scale applications running Internet scale workloads.","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Log Drains","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":60,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000000,"unit":"events"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Custom Domain","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Point in Time Recovery"}],"summary":"Free tier available. Pro from $25/month, Team $599/month, Enterprise custom pricing. Usage-based billing for compute and overages.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://supabase.com/blog/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T11:11:46.609Z","startingPrice":{"amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$125/vCPU/month","features":["PostgreSQL API (YSQL)","Cassandra API (YCQL)","Change Data Capture","Single-region fault tolerance","PostgreSQL extensions","Role Based Access Control","Encryption in transit and at rest","VPC Peering and Private Link","Data migration with YugabyteDB Voyager","REST API and CLI automation","Automated backups and security patching","Built-in metrics and alerts"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"vCPU","amount":125,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Good for startups and scale-ups needing seamless scalability, availability, and zone-level resilience.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Professional","summary":"$167/vCPU/month","features":["All Standard features","Multi-region stretched clusters","Read Replicas","Row-level geo-partitioning for data residency","Performance Advisor","Export metrics to 3rd party tools","Export audit logs","Send alerts to external tools"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"vCPU","amount":167,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For global businesses that need advanced multi-region capabilities, region-level resilience, scalability, and/or compliance with data residency requirements.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing - contact sales","features":["All Professional features","Customer Managed Keys (CMK) encryption at rest","Single Sign On via OpenID Connect (OIDC)"],"description":"Designed for enterprises needing advanced multi-region capabilities, higher performance and availability, or enterprise security features.","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery"},{"name":"Enterprise Integrations"}],"summary":"From $125/vCPU/month. Free tier available. Storage and data transfer costs additional.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.yugabyte.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T12:42:28.770Z","startingPrice":{"amount":125,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | mid | free |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":25,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://supabase.com/blog/security-performance-advisor | - |

## Capabilities (Relational Databases)

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

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:14:53.877Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*