Alternatives to Supabase

3 editor-selected alternatives · Supabase overview →

source: tools.alternatives · stored order · active records only; review scores are annotations and never change membership or order

A directional evidence panel appears only when the substitute rationale, trade-offs, sources, and verification date have been recorded. Older selections without that panel remain visible but are unclassified under the new evidence contract.

TablePlus

freemiumexplicit relation

Native database management GUI for macOS, Windows, and Linux that provides a fast, clean interface for working with PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server, Redis, CockroachDB, and more. Features an intuitive query editor with auto-completion, visual table editor for inline data editing, import/export in multiple formats, SSH tunnel support, and connection management. Known for its speed and polished UI compared to heavier tools like DBeaver. Popular among Mac developers.

TablePlus provides a free tier with concurrency limits (up to 2 open tabs/workspaces). Full features are available under a perpetual license at $99 for 1 device (including 1 year of free updates), with optional renewal extensions at $59/year.

DBeaver

open sourcefreemiumexplicit relation

DBeaver is a free, open-source universal database GUI and SQL client supporting 100+ engines including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Redis. Offers a consistent cross-platform interface for schema browsing, visual query building, SQL execution, data editing, ER diagrams, and data migration between heterogeneous databases, all in a single Java-based desktop app.

DBeaver Community is a free, open-source universal database manager. Commercial PRO editions add NoSQL and cloud database integrations, starting with Lite at $11/month ($110/year), Enterprise at $25/month ($250/year), and Ultimate at $500/year.

pgAdmin

open sourceexplicit relation

The most popular open-source administration and management tool for PostgreSQL, used by millions of DBAs and developers worldwide. Features a powerful SQL query editor with auto-completion, visual query builder (graphical EXPLAIN), server dashboard with real-time monitoring, backup/restore wizards, ERD generator for schema visualization, and user/role management. Runs as a web application accessible via browser. Supports PostgreSQL 12+ and is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Docker.

Free and 100% open source under the PostgreSQL Licence. Completely free for unlimited local, server, containerized, and enterprise production deployments with zero software licensing costs.

Open-source Supabase alternatives

DBeaver, pgAdmin — see all open-source developer tools.

Free Supabase alternatives

TablePlus, DBeaver offer a free plan or free tier.

More Databases & ORMs tools

same category, not editor-selected alternatives — see how Supabase 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.NeonServerless 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.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.

Supabase head-to-head

FAQ

Which Supabase alternative is listed first?

TablePlus is first in the editor-selected list of 3 Supabase alternatives. The stored order is editorial; review scores do not determine membership or position.

Are there open-source Supabase alternatives?

Yes — DBeaver, pgAdmin are open source.

Are there free Supabase alternatives?

Yes — TablePlus, DBeaver offer a free plan or free tier.