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Comparison

PlanetScale vs Xata

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
Managed Databases
Managed Databases
Database capabilities
Automated Backups
Automated Backups
Automatic Failover
Automatic Failover
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 Xata Offerings
Storage
  • Included storage — $0 · first 10 GB storage per cluster
  • Storage overage — $0.50 · per GB-month
  • Storage — $0.28 · per GB-month
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
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Hetzner
  • Customer-operated Kubernetes, bare-metal, and on-premises infrastructure
  • Customer-operated Kubernetes infrastructure
Execution & placement
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Scope: Regional
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Scope: Regional
Availability footprint
  • Managed cloud: 19 Regions
Unknown

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Single Sign-On
SAML Base add-on; included with Enterprise
SAML Enterprise
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
TOTP PlanetScale accounts
Unknown
Access Control
Unknown
Scoped API keys and Enterprise RBAC Keys can be limited by branch and capability
Encryption & secrets
Encryption at Rest
All plans
Xata managed databases
Encryption in Transit
TLS database connections All plans
TLS Xata service connections
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
Unknown
SOC Reports
SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II PlanetScale managed service
Unknown