PlanetScale vs Convex

Side-by-side database cost comparison — enter your storage and compute workload and see which provider is cheaper.

Database pricing is highly variable. Costs depend on query patterns, IOPS, connection pooling, and plan-specific limits this calculator cannot fully model. Treat these as order-of-magnitude estimates.

1. Pick a workload

Choose the preset closest to your database size.

2. Fine-tune (optional)

Override the preset with your real numbers.

Convex is cheaper by $25.25/mo (42%) for this workload.

PlanetScalePostgres

$60.25/mo

PS-80 cluster (single node)

PS-80: 8 GB RAM, arm64

$49.00

Storage

90.0 GB overage × $0.125/GB (10 GB included)

$11.25

Egress

30 GB — within 100 GB included

incl.

Cluster: PS-80 (8 GB RAM). Selected as nearest cluster for 2 GB RAM target. Single-node cluster. For production workloads, consider upgrading to HA ($148/mo). Optional: dedicated PgBouncer connection pooler ($18–$933/mo) not included.

Rates verified 2026-05 — PlanetScale pricing page

ConvexProfessional

Lower cost

$35.00/mo

Developer seats (1)

1 developer × $25/dev/mo

$25.00

Database storage

50.0 GB overage × $0.2/GB (50 GB included)

$10.00

DB I/O (est.)

~36.0 GB est. I/O — within 50 GB included

incl.

Egress

30 GB — within 50 GB included

incl.

Per-seat pricing model: cost grows with team size, not data volume. Compare carefully against storage-based providers for larger teams.

Per-seat pricing: 1 developer × $25/mo = $25/mo base. DB I/O estimate (~0.05 GB/active hour) is a rough approximation — actual usage depends heavily on query patterns. Function call costs ($2/million) not included — too app-specific to model. Professional includes very high limits. Convex uses a document model, not Postgres. Direct SQL tools and ORMs are not compatible.

Rates verified 2026-05 — Convex pricing page

What PlanetScale excels at

Millisecond-level billing: clusters are billed to the millisecond — no wasted spending on idle resources.
HA clusters: 3-node HA available from $15/month — zero single-point-of-failure.
Dedicated PgBouncer: connection pooling as a separate managed instance, not shared.
Multiple cloud regions: 24+ regions across AWS and GCP.
No vendor lock-in: standard Postgres — migrate in and out with pg_dump/pg_restore.

What Convex excels at

Reactive queries: Convex functions subscribe to data — UI updates automatically when data changes without polling.
TypeScript-native: fully typed queries, mutations, and actions — no SQL or ORM required.
Built-in scheduling and cron: run background jobs and recurring tasks without a separate queue.
Transactional mutations: all writes are fully ACID at the function level.
Real-time by default: WebSocket subscriptions are a first-class primitive, not an add-on.

Compatible

Building on PlanetScale or Convex?

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