PlanetScale
The world's fastest and most scalable cloud databases
- Also known as
- planetscale
What is PlanetScale?
PlanetScale offers PostgreSQL and Vitess databases with exceptional speed and reliability. Vitess provides horizontal scalability through sharding to distribute data across thousands of nodes.
PlanetScale pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $5/month for Postgres Single Node. Resource-based pricing with pay-as-you-go for storage overage and egress.
Postgres Single Node
Development and low-traffic production workloads
Postgres Metal
High-performance local NVMe storage with unlimited IOPS
Postgres HA (PS-5 example)
High availability with 1 primary + 2 replicas across 3 availability zones
- egress
- 100 GB/month
Vitess
MySQL-compatible with horizontal sharding for massive scale
Enterprise
Contact salesAll features with upgraded support, migration assistance, and bring-your-own-cloud deployment
Add-ons
- Egress bandwidth$0.06 per GB
- Storage (network-attached, beyond 10GB free)
- Additional development branch hours
- SSO
What PlanetScale does
The capabilities that matter for relational databases, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SQL model
- Full SQL
- ACID transactions
- -
- Highest isolation level
- -
- Consistency
- -
- Horizontal scale
- Sharded
- Replication
- Async
- Automatic failover / HA
- ✓
- Deployment
- Managed
- Serverless / scale-to-zero
- -
- Wire compatibility
- -
- Extensions / plugins / UDFs
- -
- Licence class
- Proprietary
- JSON / document support
- -
- Geo / spatial
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- Airbyte
- Fivetran
- GitHub Actions
PlanetScale alternatives
Other relational databases we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for PlanetScale, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 75 | 18.00 | 1350.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 100 | 10.00 | 995.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 75 | 8.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 17.00 | 491.4 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 6.00 | 480.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 8.00 | 138.5 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"sql_model":"full_sql","deployment":"managed","replication":"async","license_class":"proprietary","horizontal_scale":"sharded","automatic_failover":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |