Supabase vs PlanetScale

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.

Supabase is cheaper by $18.75/mo (31%) for this workload.

SupabasePro

Lower cost

$41.50/mo

Pro plan base

Includes Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime + DB — $10 compute credit included

$25.00

Compute — Small (2 GB RAM)

Small $15/mo − $10 credit = $5 extra

$5.00

Database storage

92.0 GB overage × $0.125/GB (8 GB included)

$11.50

Egress

30 GB — within 250 GB included

incl.

Compute: Small (2 GB RAM, 2-core ARM). Selected as nearest tier for 2 GB RAM target. Price includes Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime — not just the database. Compare with pure-DB providers at lower storage tiers with this in mind.

Rates verified 2026-05 — Supabase pricing page

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

What Supabase excels at

Full BaaS bundle: Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, and Realtime are included in the Pro price — not just the database.
Native MakerKit support: MakerKit ships with first-class Supabase integration out of the box.
Postgres with Row Level Security: fine-grained per-row access control at the database level.
Dashboard and Studio: visual table editor, SQL editor, and migration tooling built in.
Generous free tier: 500 MB DB, 50,000 MAU, 5 GB egress — no credit card required.

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.

Native integration

Building on Supabase or PlanetScale?

MakerKit ships pre-configured for Supabase — auth, RLS, storage, and migrations all done. Prefer PlanetScale? Standard Postgres means it's a one connection-string swap.

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