# PlanetScale vs Vitess

**Leader by Vioscale score:** PlanetScale

| Attribute | PlanetScale | Vitess |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 67.3 (70% (medium)) | 62.2 (49% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 62 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 235 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 21,259 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud database platform offering both Vitess (MySQL-compatible with horizontal sharding) and Postgres databases for high-performance, large-scale workloads. | Vitess is a MySQL-compatible database that extends scalability through built-in sharding and improves performance via query rewriting, caching, and connection pooling. It provides automatic failure detection and repair for high availability. |
| features.capabilities | `{"sql_model":"full_sql","deployment":"managed","extensibility":true,"license_class":"proprietary","horizontal_scale":"sharded"}` | `{"sql_model":"full_sql","deployment":"self_hosted","horizontal_scale":"sharded","automatic_failover":true,"wire_compatibility":"mysql"}` |
| integrations.count | 1 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Vantage"}]` | - |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Postgres Single Node","summary":"Starting at $5/month","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Development and low-traffic production workloads","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Postgres Metal","summary":"Starting at $50/month","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"High-performance local NVMe storage with unlimited IOPS","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Postgres HA (PS-5 example)","summary":"$15/month for PS-5 tier (1/16 vCPU, 512MB RAM, 10GB storage, 3 nodes, 99.99% SLA)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":15,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"High availability with 1 primary + 2 replicas across 3 availability zones","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"egress":"100 GB/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Vitess","summary":"Custom pricing based on cluster size, VTGate configuration, and storage","description":"MySQL-compatible with horizontal sharding for massive scale","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","description":"All features with upgraded support, migration assistance, and bring-your-own-cloud deployment","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Egress bandwidth","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.06,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Storage (network-attached, beyond 10GB free)"},{"name":"Additional development branch hours"},{"name":"SSO"}],"summary":"From $5/month for Postgres Single Node. Resource-based pricing with pay-as-you-go for storage overage and egress.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://planetscale.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T12:42:46.087Z","startingPrice":{"amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | no | - |
| pricing.model | commercial | - |
| pricing.price_level | low | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 6 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v24.0.2","date":"2026-06-24T16:26:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v24.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v23.0.5","date":"2026-06-24T15:33:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v23.0.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v24.0.1","date":"2026-05-07T15:33:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v24.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v23.0.4","date":"2026-05-07T14:22:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v23.0.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v24.0.0","date":"2026-04-30T11:47:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v24.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v24.0.0-rc1","date":"2026-04-14T13:47:37Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v24.0.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v23.0.3","date":"2026-02-27T01:43:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v23.0.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v22.0.4","date":"2026-02-27T02:52:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v22.0.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v23.0.2","date":"2026-02-10T21:29:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v23.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v23.0.1","date":"2026-02-04T18:24:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v23.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v22.0.3","date":"2026-02-04T16:47:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v22.0.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v22.0.2","date":"2025-11-05T17:15:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v22.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v21.0.6","date":"2025-11-05T17:11:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v21.0.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v23.0.0","date":"2025-11-04T14:37:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v23.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v23.0.0-rc2","date":"2025-10-29T14:34:22Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v23.0.0-rc2"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v23.0.0-rc1","date":"2025-10-16T13:40:24Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v23.0.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v22.0.1","date":"2025-06-18T07:48:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v22.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v21.0.5","date":"2025-06-18T09:22:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v21.0.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v20.0.8","date":"2025-06-18T09:31:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v20.0.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v22.0.0","date":"2025-04-29T13:05:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v22.0.0"}]` |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 8 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":5,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=vitess.io%2Fvitess&per_page=100","last_12m":2,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` |

## Capabilities (Relational Databases)

| Capability | PlanetScale | Vitess |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| SQL model | Full SQL | Full SQL |
| **Transactions** |  |  |
| ACID transactions | - | - |
| Highest isolation level | - | - |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | - | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Horizontal scale | Sharded | Sharded |
| **Replication** |  |  |
| Replication | - | - |
| **Availability** |  |  |
| Automatic failover / HA | - | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed | Self-hosted |
| Serverless / scale-to-zero | - | - |
| **Compatibility** |  |  |
| Wire compatibility | - | MySQL protocol |
| **Extensibility** |  |  |
| Extensions / plugins / UDFs | ✓ | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | - |
| **Data types** |  |  |
| JSON / document support | - | - |
| Geo / spatial | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:39:26.287Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*