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Comparison

PlanetScale vs Supabase

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

Comparison space

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Platform

Hosting model
BYOC
BYOC
Managed
Managed
Self-Hosted
Self-Hosted
Database compatibility
MySQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Vitess
Vitess
Services
Authentication
Authentication
Edge Functions
Edge Functions
Managed Databases
Managed Databases
Object Storage
Object Storage
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
Scale to Zero
Scale to Zero
Storage Autoscaling
Storage Autoscaling

Pricing

Compute billing
Instance based Cluster SKUs
Plan based Supabase Plans
Storage
  • Included storage — $0 · first 10 GB storage per cluster
  • Storage overage — $0.50 · per GB-month
  • File storage — $0.0213 · per GB beyond 100 GB
Free entry / commitment
Self-service No sales interaction required.
Free plan Available in public plans

Infrastructure & Availability

Infrastructure provider
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Other
  • Customer-controlled infrastructure
Execution & placement
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Scope: Regional
  • Execution: Edge
  • Placement: Customer-Selected
  • Placement: Automatic Placement
Availability footprint
  • Managed cloud: 19 Regions
  • Managed Supabase Cloud: 17 Regions

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Single Sign-On
SAML Base add-on; included with Enterprise
SAML Team and Enterprise
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
TOTP PlanetScale accounts
Unknown
Access Control
Unknown
Organization and project roles Project-scoped and read-only roles on Team and Enterprise
Encryption & secrets
Encryption at Rest
All plans
Supabase hosted projects
Encryption in Transit
TLS database connections All plans
Unknown
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
Private database connectivity Deployment support applies
AWS PrivateLink Team/Enterprise; same AWS region; database only
IP Allow List
Database connections
Postgres and connection pooler only
Assurances & programs
HIPAA
Eligible use Qualifying customers; signed BAA and customer safeguards required
Eligible projects Signed BAA, HIPAA add-on, and required high-compliance configuration
SOC Reports
SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II PlanetScale managed service
SOC 2 Type II Hosted platform; report access on Team and Enterprise