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Comparison

PlanetScale vs Prisma Postgres

Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.

Comparison space

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Platform

Hosting model
BYOC
BYOC
Managed
Managed
Database compatibility
MySQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Vitess
Vitess
Services
Managed Databases
Managed Databases
Database capabilities
Automated Backups
Automated Backups
Automatic Failover
Automatic Failover
Compute Autoscaling
Compute Autoscaling
Database Branching
Database Branching
Point-in-Time Recovery
Point-in-Time Recovery
Read Replicas
Read Replicas
Storage Autoscaling
Storage Autoscaling

Pricing

Compute billing
Instance based Cluster SKUs
Plan based Prisma Plans
Storage
  • Included storage — $0 · first 10 GB storage per cluster
  • Storage overage — $0.50 · per GB-month
  • Storage (Starter) — $2.00 · per GB above allowance
  • Storage (Pro) — $1.50 · per GB above allowance
I/O / requests
Unknown
  • Database operations (Starter) — $8 · per million operations above allowance
  • Database operations (Pro) — $2 · per million operations above allowance
Free entry / commitment
Self-service No sales interaction required.
Recurring free allowances No card required

Infrastructure & Availability

Infrastructure provider
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud Platform
Unknown
Execution & placement
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Scope: Regional
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Placement: Customer-Selected
  • Scope: Regional
Availability footprint
  • Managed cloud: 19 Regions
  • Database regions: 6 Regions

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Single Sign-On
SAML Base add-on; included with Enterprise
Unknown
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
TOTP PlanetScale accounts
Unknown
Encryption & secrets
Encryption at Rest
All plans
Unknown
Encryption in Transit
TLS database connections All plans
Unknown
Encryption
Unknown
Encryption at rest and in transit All plans
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
Private database connectivity Deployment support applies
Unknown
IP Allow List
Database connections
Unknown
Assurances & programs
HIPAA
Eligible use Qualifying customers; signed BAA and customer safeguards required
HIPAA support with signed BAA Business plan; BAA required before storing PHI
SOC Reports
SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II PlanetScale managed service
SOC 2 Type II Business plan