PlanetScale vs Xata

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.

Xata is cheaper by $12.97/mo (22%) 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

XataStandard

Lower cost

$47.28/mo

Platform fee

No monthly minimum

incl.

Compute — Small (2 GB RAM)

$0.024/hr × 720 hours

$17.28

Storage (NVMe)

100 GB × $0.3/GB-mo

$30.00

Egress

No separate egress billing documented

incl.

Compute: Small (2 GB RAM). Rate: $0.024/hr. At 720 hours/month (always-on). Storage is NVMe ($0.30/GB). EBS pricing listed as coming soon on Xata's pricing page.

Rates verified 2026-05 — Xata 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 Xata excels at

Copy-on-write branches: instant zero-copy database branches for development and staging.
Scale-to-zero: instances sleep when idle — no charge for unused hours.
Data anonymization built-in: scrub PII in branch copies automatically.
Advanced observability: query analytics and slow-query detection in the dashboard.
Kubernetes-native: deploy on your own cluster (Bring Your Own Cloud enterprise option).

Compatible

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