PlanetScale and Supabase sit in different parts of the directory — Databases, Cloud Infrastructure. This page puts the details we hold for each of them side by side.
It does not score them and does not pick a winner. Fields the catalog has no value for say “Not recorded” rather than being filled in with a guess.
| Category | Databases | Cloud Infrastructure |
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| Pricing model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Open source | Not recorded | Yes |
| GitHub stars | Not tracked | 108.0K |
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Serverless MySQL database platform with branching
PlanetScale is a serverless MySQL database platform that brings Git-like branching to databases. Built on Vitess, it offers horizontal scaling, non-blocking schema changes, and a developer-friendly workflow for database management.
Full PlanetScale listingOpen-source Firebase alternative with PostgreSQL
Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative that provides all the backend services needed to build a product: a Postgres database, authentication, instant APIs, edge functions, real-time subscriptions, and storage. It's built on top of proven, enterprise-ready tools.
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