PlanetScale pricing
Alternative. Maturity: Established (12 months or more). Replaces Heroku Postgres, Neon, Supabase. Last checked 2026-10-21.
Visitors who say they use PlanetScale: none yet. Self-reported, anonymous, and never used for order.
| plan | from $/mo | billed | source | checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS-10 single node | $10 | gb | pricing page | 2026-10-21 |
| PS-10 high availability | $30 | gb | pricing page | 2026-10-21 |
PS-10 single node: PlanetScale Postgres on network-attached storage, one node, no high availability: PS-10 (arm64, 1/8 vCPU, 1 GiB of memory) at $10 a month with 10 GB of storage included. The storage price above 10 GB is not on the page text we read, so sizes above 10 GB are left blank. Worked out as $10 up to 10 GB.
PS-10 high availability: The same PS-10 as a 3-node cluster (one primary and two replicas across three availability zones) at $30 a month with 10 GB of storage included. Sizes above 10 GB are left blank. Worked out as $30 up to 10 GB.
features recorded
| feature | status | from plan | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic backups | yes | PS-10 single node | Backup storage equal to 2x the disk size is included with every branch. |
| Connection pooling | yes | PS-10 single node | PgBouncer on the primary is included in the cluster price; a dedicated PgBouncer is a separate, billed SKU. |
| Postgres extensions (such as pgvector) | yes | PS-10 single node | Extensions are supported (the docs list pgvector-family extensions). |
| Point-in-time restore | not stated | - | |
| High availability (automatic failover) | yes | PS-10 high availability | The high availability cluster has a primary and two replicas. |
| Database branches | yes | PS-10 single node | Each branch is an isolated database on its own cluster, billed separately. |
| Read replicas | yes | PS-10 high availability | Additional replicas are billed at their own rate. |
| Sign-in and file storage from the same vendor | not stated | - |
limits and caveats
| limit | what the vendor says | source | checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| storage-price | The price of storage above the included 10 GB is a per-GB rate we could not read from the pricing page, so sizes above 10 GB are not priced | source | 2026-10-21 |
| egress | 100 GB of egress is included, then $0.06 per GB; backup storage above the included amount is $0.023 per GB; not in the cost shown | source | 2026-10-21 |
| single-node | The single node plan has no standby; the high availability plan costs three times as much | source | 2026-10-21 |
compare
- +Heroku Postgres alternatives: how PlanetScale compares.
- +Neon alternatives: how PlanetScale compares.
- +Supabase alternatives: how PlanetScale compares.
- +All database tools, including DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL, Fly.io Managed Postgres, Heroku Postgres, Neon, Railway Postgres.
switches
Reported switches to PlanetScale from other listed tools: none yet. Self-reported by visitors, shown as a raw count, and never used for ranking.
What people said they gave up (read first, one person's view each):
proof signals
- +Pricing published as a queryable catalogue (pricing.md)
- +Postgres, Vitess and sharded Postgres (Neki) product lines on its pricing page
details
- website
- planetscale.com
- hosting
- managed
- open source
- no