Alternatives to PlanetScale

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Supabase

90/100open sourcefreemiumexplicit relation

Open-source Firebase alternative providing a full backend-as-a-service on PostgreSQL. Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs from your schema, real-time subscriptions, built-in auth with 20+ social providers and Row Level Security, S3-compatible file storage with CDN, and Deno-powered Edge Functions. Visual dashboard with SQL editor and table editor. Supports pgvector for AI apps. Self-hostable or managed with a generous free tier. 75K+ GitHub stars.

Supabase offers a perpetual Free tier for hobbyists and experimentation (50k MAUs, 500MB DB). The Pro tier starts at $25/month including $10 compute credits, 8GB database storage, and 250GB egress. The Team tier costs $599/month for SOC2/HIPAA compliance and priority support, alongside custom Enterprise packages.Review →

Neon

90/100open sourcefreemiumexplicit relation

Serverless Postgres platform separating storage and compute for branching, autoscaling, read replicas, instant restore, and scale-to-zero workloads. Neon works with standard PostgreSQL clients and ORMs, supports extensions such as pgvector, and sits inside a broader Neon backend platform with Auth, Data API, Functions, Object Storage, and AI Gateway features.

Neon provides a serverless PostgreSQL database with scale-to-zero capabilities. The Free tier includes 100 Compute Unit (CU) hours and 0.5 GB storage per month across up to 100 projects. Paid usage is consumption-based with no minimum monthly platform fee: Launch bills at $0.106/CU-hour and Scale at $0.222/CU-hour with $0.35/GB-month storage.Review →

Turso

open sourcefreemiumexplicit relation

Edge-hosted distributed database built on libSQL (an open-source fork of SQLite) designed for low-latency data access worldwide. Features multi-region replication, embedded replicas that sync to your application server for microsecond reads, database branching for development workflows, and point-in-time recovery. Ideal for edge computing, serverless functions, and mobile apps. Compatible with SQLite ecosystem tooling. Generous free tier with 9GB storage and 500 databases.

Starter ($0/mo, 500 databases, 9 GB storage, 1B row reads/mo, 25M writes/mo, up to 3 locations) / Scaler ($29/mo, 1,000 to 10,000 DBs, 54 GB storage, 100B reads/mo, 100M writes/mo, up to 6 locations, overages enabled) / Pro ($99/mo+) / Enterprise custom

Open-source PlanetScale alternatives

Supabase, Neon, Turso — see all open-source developer tools.

Free PlanetScale alternatives

Supabase, Neon, Turso offer a free plan or free tier.

More Databases & ORMs tools

same category, not editor-selected alternatives — see how PlanetScale compares →

UpstashUpstash provides serverless Redis, Kafka, and vector database services with per-request pricing and zero operational overhead. Redis supports global replication for edge computing. Kafka offers pay-per-message event streaming. QStash provides HTTP-based message queues for serverless. Features REST APIs alongside native protocols, ideal for edge and serverless deployments. Integrates with Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, and AWS Lambda natively.Drizzle ORMLightweight, serverless-ready TypeScript ORM with zero dependencies bringing SQL-like syntax into TypeScript for maximum type-safety. Maps queries closely to raw SQL with full auto-completion and type inference. Features Drizzle Kit for migrations, Drizzle Studio for visual browsing, supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and Turso. Runs on Node.js, Bun, Deno, Cloudflare Workers, and Vercel Edge. 26K+ GitHub stars, growing fast as a Prisma alternative.QdrantQdrant is a high-performance vector similarity search engine and database written in Rust. Designed for production-grade AI applications with advanced filtering, payload indexing, and distributed deployment. Supports billion-scale vector collections with sub-second query times. Popular choice for RAG, recommendation systems, and anomaly detection.PineconePinecone is a leading managed vector database designed for high-performance similarity search at scale. Purpose-built for AI applications including RAG, recommendation systems, and semantic search. Offers managed serverless infrastructure with automatic scaling, filtering, hybrid retrieval, and namespacing. No infrastructure management required.HelixDBHelixDB is an open-source, unified graph-vector database engineered in Rust that merges relational, graph, and vector workloads into a single OLTP engine, using LMDB local caching and S3 object storage for scalable agent memory.LanceDBLanceDB is an open-source embedded vector database built on the Lance columnar format for multimodal AI. It delivers near in-memory performance from disk with zero-copy architecture, supporting vector search, full-text search, and SQL. Native SDKs for Python, TypeScript, and Rust integrate with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and DuckDB. Backed by a $30M Series A, used by Harvey AI and Runway, with 18,000+ GitHub stars.RagieRagie is a managed retrieval-augmented generation platform that handles document ingestion, indexing, and retrieval so developers can build grounded AI applications without managing vector databases or chunking pipelines. It connects to Google Drive, Notion, Slack, Confluence, and other enterprise data sources with simple APIs for hybrid search and entity extraction.VectorChordVectorChord is a Postgres extension from the supervc-stack/VectorChord project that brings high-recall vector search to PostgreSQL. As the spiritual successor to pgvecto.rs, it combines IVF indexes with RaBitQ quantization to deliver Pinecone-class performance at billion-vector scale while keeping all data inside a single Postgres database — no separate vector store, no two-system sync, no rewrites when the workload grows.pgvectorpgvector is an open-source PostgreSQL extension with 22K+ GitHub stars adding vector similarity search to your existing Postgres database. Store embeddings alongside relational data, perform exact and approximate nearest neighbor search using L2, inner product, cosine, and L1 metrics. Supports HNSW and IVFFlat indexes for fast similarity queries at scale. Eliminates the need for a separate vector database by bringing vector capabilities into existing PostgreSQL infrastructure.

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FAQ

Which PlanetScale alternative is listed first?

Supabase is first in the editor-selected list of 3 PlanetScale alternatives and carries an editorial review score of 90/100. The stored order is editorial; review scores do not determine membership or position.

Are there open-source PlanetScale alternatives?

Yes — Supabase, Neon, Turso are open source.

Are there free PlanetScale alternatives?

Yes — Supabase, Neon, Turso offer a free plan or free tier.