# PlanetScale

> The world's fastest and most scalable cloud databases

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/planetscale
- **Category:** Relational Databases
- **Homepage:** https://planetscale.com
- **Also known as:** planetscale
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-03T12:45:07.983Z

## Vioscale score

**60.5 / 100**, confidence 62% (medium).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 80 | 6 | 480 | ✓ |
| reliability | 99.5 | 10 | 995 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 28.9 | 17 | 491.4 | ✓ |
| integrations | 17.3 | 8 | 138.5 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 75 | 18 | 1350 | ✓ |
| pricing_transparency | 75 | 8 | 600 | ✓ |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-03, [verify at source](https://planetscale.com). Independently observed._

from $5/mo · Hybrid

> From $5/month for Postgres Single Node. Resource-based pricing with pay-as-you-go for storage overage and egress.

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Postgres Single Node | Starting at $5/month | - | - |
| Postgres Metal | Starting at $50/month | - | - |
| Postgres HA (PS-5 example) | $15/month for PS-5 tier (1/16 vCPU, 512MB RAM, 10GB storage, 3 nodes, 99.99% SLA) | - | - |
| Vitess | Custom pricing based on cluster size, VTGate configuration, and storage | - | - |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | - | - |

### 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

**Included limits:** egress: 100 GB/month

### Vitess

MySQL-compatible with horizontal sharding for massive scale

### Enterprise (Contact sales)

All 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**

## About

PlanetScale offers PostgreSQL and Vitess databases with exceptional speed and reliability. Vitess provides horizontal scalability through sharding to distribute data across thousands of nodes.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** CLI, Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS, Hybrid

## Integrations (3)

_Independently observed._

- Airbyte
- Fivetran
- GitHub Actions

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for Relational Databases. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

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

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### integrations

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| integrations.count | 3 | [link](https://planetscale.com) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | no | [link](https://planetscale.com) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.model | commercial | [link](https://planetscale.com) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | low | [link](https://planetscale.com) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.starting_gbp | 5 | [link](https://planetscale.com) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | yes | [link](https://planetscale.com) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | [link](https://planetscale.com/legal/sla) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| reliability.status_page | yes | [link](https://planetscale.com/status) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | [link](https://planetscale.com) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| security.gdpr | yes | [link](https://trust.planetscale.com) | 2026-08-03 | 75% (high) |
| security.hipaa | yes | [link](https://trust.planetscale.com) | 2026-08-03 | 75% (high) |
| security.pci | yes | [link](https://trust.planetscale.com) | 2026-08-03 | 75% (high) |
| security.soc2 | yes | [link](https://planetscale.com) | 2026-08-03 | 48% (low) |

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*Source: Vioscale (https://www.vioscale.ai/software/planetscale). Independent, evidence-based software intelligence. Cite the canonical URI.*