by SupabaseManaged Postgres
A Postgres database with auth, storage and APIs in each project: $25 a month with Micro compute, 8 GB of disk and daily backups, in 17 AWS regions.
A Postgres database with auth, storage and APIs in one project for $25 a month, with daily backups and a choice of 17 AWS regions.
Supabase gives each project a dedicated Postgres database and the backend services around it: auth, file storage, realtime and edge functions. Pro is from $25 a month with $10 of compute credit, enough for one Micro instance, plus 8 GB of disk and daily backups kept 7 days. It replaces wiring a separate auth and storage service to a database, and the docs describe a self-hosted version.
Against 3 other products we reviewed in Managed Postgres: what you pay for with each, the five access facts, the plan limits we recorded and each review's bottom line. The note under the table says how each one was checked.
| Metric | Supabase | Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL | PlanetScale | Neon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Saves engineering timeA Postgres database with auth, storage and APIs in one project for $25 a month, with daily backups and a choice of 17 AWS regions. | Compliance includedManaged Postgres in your own AWS account from $0.016 an hour, with point-in-time restore up to 35 days and a self-serve HIPAA BAA. | Worth the priceProduction Postgres at a fixed monthly price per cluster, from $10 for 1 GiB, with SOC 2 Type 2 reports and BAAs on the self-serve plan. | Worth the pricePostgres you pay for by the compute hour, with scale to zero, branches that start with your data, and a free plan of 100 projects. |
| Overall score | 6.0 | 6.9Best | 6.7 | 6.5 |
| Free option | Free plan | Free trial | Paid only | Free plan |
| Card to start | –Not measured | –Not measured | –Not measured | No card needed |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $25/mo | $0.016/hour | $5/mo | $0.106/CU-hour |
| Pricing model | Seat + usage | Usage-based | Usage-based | Usage-based |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing units | Plan fee, compute hours, disk (GB) | Instance hours, storage (GB-month), backup storage above the free amount, CPU credits | Cluster size per month, storage above 10 GB, backups above 2× disk | Compute-unit hours, storage and restore history (GB-month) |
| Free plan | 500 MB per project, 2 projects; paused after 1 week inactive | None; AWS Free Tier credits for new accounts | None; single node from $5/mo | 1 GB per project, 100 projects, 100 CU-hours each; no card |
| 10 GB app with staging, per month | $35.06 on Pro, computed | $19.10 on db.t4g.micro, computed | $15 on Base, computed | $28.06 on Launch, computed |
| Point-in-time recovery | $100/mo add-on per 7 days; needs Small compute | Up to 35 days, no add-on; extra backup storage $0.095/GB-month | 2 days by default; longer with custom backup schedules | Up to 7 days on Launch at $0.20/GB-month; 30 on Scale |
| Automatic backups at no extra charge | Daily, kept 7 days (Pro) | 7 days by default (console); free up to provisioned storage | Every 12 hours, kept 2 days | None; history and snapshots billed per GB |
| SOC 2 Type II report | Team plan ($599/mo) | AWS reports in AWS Artifact, any account | Base plan (ISO 27001 not stated) | Scale plan |
| HIPAA BAA | Team plan, paid add-on | Self-serve in AWS Artifact | Base plan, on request | Scale plan, self-serve |
| EU regions | Ireland, Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm | Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris, Stockholm, Milan, Spain | Frankfurt, Dublin (AWS); Belgium, Netherlands (GCP) | Frankfurt, London |
| SAML SSO for the dashboard | Listed on Team; table says Contact Us | IAM Identity Center, no extra charge | $199/mo add-on on Base | Not listed |
| Branch with production data | Needs the PITR add-on | Yes, by restoring a snapshot or point in time to a new instance | Yes, by restoring a backup to a branch | Yes, every branch starts as a copy |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, Supabase gives the most around the database: auth, storage and APIs with daily backups for $25. For a database alone, PITR as a flat add-on and per-hour branches make it the highest-priced of the three in our scenario. | From its public pages, RDS for PostgreSQL includes the most recovery and compliance here at a low listed price, all self-serve. The bill has more lines to estimate than the others, and there is no permanent free plan. | From its public pages, PlanetScale lists the lowest price for our scenario and the most compliance on its entry plan, with backups and PITR included. There is no free plan, and its Postgres branches are separate databases rather than copies. | From its public pages, Neon has the most generous free plan and the most flexible branches here, and usage billing suits databases that are often idle. Compliance and longer restore windows move you to Scale, at about twice the compute rate. |
Evidence: Supabase: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; PlanetScale: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Neon: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Review from public pages
Written from Supabase's public pages (pricing, security or privacy, and docs) as read on Oct 15, 2026. We did not sign up, and no hands-on run is published yet.
We read Supabase's pricing page and its docs on compute, disk, branching, backups, regions and self-hosting on Oct 15, 2026; we did not sign up for this review. A Supabase project is a Postgres database with auth, storage, realtime and edge functions alongside; the pricing page says any project can be used as a plain Postgres database through its connection string, and unused products cost nothing.
Billing has three layers: an organization plan (Pro from $25), compute billed hourly per project (Micro $10 a month, Small $15, Medium $60 and up) and disk above 8 GB per project at $0.125 per GB. Pro includes $10 of compute credit, enough for one Micro instance. Pro keeps daily backups for 7 days; point-in-time recovery is an add-on at $100 a month per 7 days of retention, and the backup docs say it needs at least Small compute.
Branches are billed per branch-hour ($0.01344). By default a new branch starts without production data, built from migrations and seed files; the dashboard's "Include data" option needs the PITR add-on. Two details need care: the branching docs say compute credits do not cover branch compute while their worked example subtracts the credit, and the pricing table marks dashboard SSO as Contact Us on Team although the Team card lists it.
Each project includes auth (100,000 monthly active users on Pro), file storage, realtime and edge functions next to Postgres, in the $25 plan.
vs PlanetScale: PlanetScale sells the database only; Neon bills its object storage and functions as separate usage.
Pro keeps daily backups for 7 days and Team for 14, at no extra charge.
vs PlanetScale: Neon bills restore history per GB; PlanetScale includes 2 days of backups by default.
Projects can be created in 17 AWS regions, four of them in EU member states (Ireland, Paris, Frankfurt and Stockholm).
vs Neon: Neon lists eight AWS regions.
The docs describe self-hosting Supabase with Docker; branching, managed backups and PITR are among the features it does not include.
Pro has a spend cap turned on by default; you turn it off in the dashboard to pay for usage beyond the plan limits.
Point-in-time recovery costs $100 a month per 7 days of retention (28 days for $400) and needs at least Small compute ($15 a month).
Workaround: Daily backups kept 7 days are included on Pro.
New branches get their schema from migrations and seed files; copying production data into a branch needs the PITR add-on.
The SOC 2 Type 2 report, ISO 27001 certificate and BAA are for Team ($599 a month) and Enterprise customers; the HIPAA add-on price is not on the pricing page.
Free projects are paused after one week of inactivity, and two can be active at a time.
Supabase bills an organization plan plus per-project compute and disk. Pro is from $25 a month and includes $10 of compute credit (one Micro instance at $0.01344 an hour), 8 GB of disk per project (then $0.125 per GB) and 250 GB of egress (then $0.09 per GB). Team is from $599 with the same quotas.
For our scenario: $25 + Micro covered by the credit + 2 GB of extra disk ($0.25) + a staging branch billed all month (730 × $0.01344 = $9.81) = $35.06 a month, our arithmetic. Each additional project adds its full compute cost. PITR adds $100 a month per 7 days and needs Small compute. Pro has a spend cap on by default.
The pricing page says any project can be used as a standard Postgres database through its connection string, the upgrade docs recommend pg_dump for a logical backup of smaller databases, and Supabase documents a self-hosted version with Docker.
From its public pages, Supabase gives the most around the database: auth, storage and APIs with daily backups for $25. For a database alone, PITR as a flat add-on and per-hour branches make it the highest-priced of the three in our scenario.
| Limit | As recorded |
|---|---|
| Billing units | Plan fee, compute hours, disk (GB) |
| Free plan | 500 MB per project, 2 projects; paused after 1 week inactive |
| 10 GB app with staging, per month | $35.06 on Pro, computed |
| Point-in-time recovery | $100/mo add-on per 7 days; needs Small compute |
| Automatic backups at no extra charge | Daily, kept 7 days (Pro) |
| SOC 2 Type II report | Team plan ($599/mo) |
| HIPAA BAA | Team plan, paid add-on |
| EU regions | Ireland, Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm |
| SAML SSO for the dashboard | Listed on Team; table says Contact Us |
| Branch with production data | Needs the PITR add-on |
Read from the vendor's public pages on Oct 15, 2026. No hands-on run is published yet. How we check
We have not published a sign-up run for Supabase yet. The access facts above were read from its sign-up and pricing pages on Oct 15, 2026.
We have not published API calls for Supabase yet.
Supabase lists 4 plans. The cheapest paid plan, Pro, costs $25/mo.
Prices as listed, USD, excluding tax; observed 2026-10-15.
Source: supabase.com pricing page. Prices change; the observed date above is when our agent read them.
We read the pricing, security and docs pages of three managed Postgres services on the same day and scored them on the same six indicators. How each one bills, what a 10 GB app with staging costs, and who should pick which.
