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Supabase vs Prisma Postgres

A comparison of Supabase and Prisma Postgres built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Updated 15 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Pick Supabase if
Teams who want Postgres plus auth, storage and generated APIs from one vendor on a fixed monthly bill, and who would otherwise assemble those pieces themselves.
Pick Prisma Postgres if
Prisma ORM users who want the database and the client from one vendor, with a pooled connection limit stated per plan rather than left to be discovered.

7 sourced criteria separate them:

Entry paid plan
Supabase: $25/month for the Pro plan, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits; additional projects from $10/mo
Prisma Postgres: $10/month for Starter. Pro is $49 and Business $129, each including a larger request allowance.
Pricing model
Supabase: Fixed monthly plan per organisation plus per-project compute, billed hourly by instance size
Prisma Postgres: A plan fee plus usage: requests, memory GB-hours, active vCPU-hours and outbound bandwidth are each metered — $1 per million requests beyond the allowance, $0.006 per GB-hour, $0.064 per vCPU-hour, $0.025 per GB out.
Storage (entry plan)
Supabase: 8 GB disk per project on the Pro plan; 500 MB on Free
Prisma Postgres: 500 MB on the free plan across 50 databases. Paid plans raise the database count to 1,000 and beyond.
Engine
Supabase: PostgreSQL
Prisma Postgres: PostgreSQL.
Connection limit
Supabase: 60 direct and 200 pooled connections on the Micro instance included with Pro; both scale with instance size
Prisma Postgres: 100 pooled connections on Starter and 10 direct; 10 pooled on Free, 500 on Pro and 1,000 on Business.
When idle
Supabase: Free projects are paused after one week of inactivity and must be restored manually; paid projects are not paused
Prisma Postgres: Scales to zero when idle, and Prisma states an idle app costs nothing.
Backup retention
Supabase: Daily backups: 7 days on Pro, 14 days on Team, up to 30 days on Enterprise. Free projects get no automatic backups at all — Supabase tells free users to export their own data with the CLI.
Prisma Postgres: Daily backups with 7-day retention on Starter and Pro, 30 days on Business. The free plan has none.
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01.

At a glance.

CriterionSupabasePrisma Postgres
Pricing
Free tierYesYes
Entry paid plan
$25/month for the Pro plan, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits; additional projects from $10/mo
$10/month for Starter. Pro is $49 and Business $129, each including a larger request allowance.
Pricing modelFixed monthly plan per organisation plus per-project compute, billed hourly by instance sizeA plan fee plus usage: requests, memory GB-hours, active vCPU-hours and outbound bandwidth are each metered — $1 per million requests beyond the allowance, $0.006 per GB-hour, $0.064 per vCPU-hour, $0.025 per GB out.
Limits
Storage (entry plan)
8 GB disk per project on the Pro plan; 500 MB on Free
500 MB on the free plan across 50 databases. Paid plans raise the database count to 1,000 and beyond.
Execution
Managed connection poolingSupportedSupported
Data
EnginePostgreSQLPostgreSQL.
Connection limit
60 direct and 200 pooled connections on the Micro instance included with Pro; both scale with instance size
100 pooled connections on Starter and 10 direct; 10 pooled on Free, 500 on Pro and 1,000 on Business.
When idleFree projects are paused after one week of inactivity and must be restored manually; paid projects are not pausedScales to zero when idle, and Prisma states an idle app costs nothing.
Backup retention
Daily backups: 7 days on Pro, 14 days on Team, up to 30 days on Enterprise. Free projects get no automatic backups at all — Supabase tells free users to export their own data with the CLI.
Daily backups with 7-day retention on Starter and Pro, 30 days on Business. The free plan has none.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Entry paid plan

Supabase
$25/month for the Pro plan, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits; additional projects from $10/mo
Prisma Postgres
$10/month for Starter. Pro is $49 and Business $129, each including a larger request allowance.
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing & Fees — Supabase ↗

    “$25/month [...] First project included. Additional projects from $10/mo. [...] Paid plans include $10/mo in compute credits, enough to cover one Micro instance.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official pricing

  • Pricing — Prisma ↗

    “Starter $10 / month Prisma Compute 5M requests / month, then $1 per million [...] Pro $49 / month [...] Business $129 / month”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

Pricing model

Supabase
Fixed monthly plan per organisation plus per-project compute, billed hourly by instance size
Prisma Postgres
A plan fee plus usage: requests, memory GB-hours, active vCPU-hours and outbound bandwidth are each metered — $1 per million requests beyond the allowance, $0.006 per GB-hour, $0.064 per vCPU-hour, $0.025 per GB out.
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing & Fees — Supabase ↗

    “First project included. Additional projects from $10/mo. [...] Paid plans include $10/mo in compute credits, enough to cover one Micro instance.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official pricing

  • Pricing — Prisma ↗

    “5M requests / month, then $1 per million $0.006 per GB-hour memory $0.064 per active vCPU-hours $0.025 per GB outbound bandwidth”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

Storage (entry plan)

Supabase

8 GB disk per project on the Pro plan; 500 MB on Free

Prisma Postgres

500 MB on the free plan across 50 databases. Paid plans raise the database count to 1,000 and beyond.

Sources (2) →

Engine

Supabase
PostgreSQL
Prisma Postgres
PostgreSQL.
Sources (2) →

Connection limit

Supabase

60 direct and 200 pooled connections on the Micro instance included with Pro; both scale with instance size

Prisma Postgres

100 pooled connections on Starter and 10 direct; 10 pooled on Free, 500 on Pro and 1,000 on Business.

Sources (2) →
  • Pricing & Fees — Supabase ↗

    “1 GB RAM / 2-core ARM CPU / Connections: Direct 60, Pooler 200”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official pricing

  • Pricing — Prisma ↗

    “Managed connection pool Connection limit (pooled) Free 10 Starter 100 Pro 500 Business 1,000 Connection limit (direct) Free 10 Starter 10 Pro 50 Business 100”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

When idle

Supabase
Free projects are paused after one week of inactivity and must be restored manually; paid projects are not paused
Prisma Postgres
Scales to zero when idle, and Prisma states an idle app costs nothing.
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing & Fees — Supabase ↗

    “Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity. Limit of 2 active projects.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official pricing

  • Pricing — Prisma ↗

    “Scale to zero when idle [...] An idle app scales to zero and costs nothing.”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

Backup retention

Supabase

Daily backups: 7 days on Pro, 14 days on Team, up to 30 days on Enterprise. Free projects get no automatic backups at all — Supabase tells free users to export their own data with the CLI.

Prisma Postgres

Daily backups with 7-day retention on Starter and Pro, 30 days on Business. The free plan has none.

Sources (2) →
  • Database Backups — Supabase Docs ↗

    “We automatically back up all Pro, Team, and Enterprise Plan projects on a daily basis. [...] Pro Plan projects can access the last 7 days of daily backups. Team Plan projects can access the last 14 days of daily backups, while Enterprise Plan projects can access up to 30 days of daily backups. [...] We recommend that free tier plan projects regularly export their data using the Supabase CLI db dump command and maintain off-site backups.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official docs

  • Pricing — Prisma ↗

    “Backups Free — Starter Daily, 7-day retention Pro Daily, 7-day retention Business Daily, 30-day retention”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

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03.

Which should you choose?

Choose Supabase if…

Teams who want Postgres plus auth, storage and generated APIs from one vendor on a fixed monthly bill, and who would otherwise assemble those pieces themselves.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Prisma Postgres if…

Prisma ORM users who want the database and the client from one vendor, with a pooled connection limit stated per plan rather than left to be discovered.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • Supabase: You want only a database. Much of the $25 covers a platform you may not use, and free projects are paused after a week of inactivity, which is not the same as scaling to zero.
  • Prisma Postgres: Four separate meters — requests, memory, vCPU and bandwidth — sit on top of the plan fee, so the monthly number is a floor rather than a bill.
04.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.

Egress over allowanceSupabase: $0.09 per GB for uncached egress and $0.03 per GB for cached, charged only above the plan's quota. Egress restrictions clear at the next billing cycle, or immediately on upgrading or disabling the spend cap.
Included bandwidthSupabase: 250 GB uncached and 250 GB cached egress a month on Pro and Team, pooled across Database, Auth, Storage and every other service as one Unified Egress Quota
RegionsSupabase: 17 specific AWS regions across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America, plus broader 'general region' groupings that place the project on an available AWS region within an area. General regions do not support read replicas or API management.
Database branchingSupabase: Supported
Point-in-time recoverySupabase: Point-in-time recovery is a paid add-on on Pro, Team and Enterprise, and needs at least a Small compute add-on alongside it. Worst-case recovery point is 2 minutes. Without it, restores go back only to a daily backup.
Read replicasSupabase: Supported
05.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: Supabase or Prisma Postgres?

Supabase: $25/month for the Pro plan, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits; additional projects from $10/mo

Prisma Postgres: $10/month for Starter. Pro is $49 and Business $129, each including a larger request allowance.

Storage (entry plan): Supabase or Prisma Postgres?

Supabase: 8 GB disk per project on the Pro plan; 500 MB on Free

Prisma Postgres: 500 MB on the free plan across 50 databases. Paid plans raise the database count to 1,000 and beyond.

Should I choose Supabase or Prisma Postgres?

Pick Supabase if Teams who want Postgres plus auth, storage and generated APIs from one vendor on a fixed monthly bill, and who would otherwise assemble those pieces themselves.

Pick Prisma Postgres if Prisma ORM users who want the database and the client from one vendor, with a pooled connection limit stated per plan rather than left to be discovered.

Provider pages

SupabaseManaged Postgres bundled with auth, storage, edge functions and auto-generated APIs, billed per project with a fixed monthly plan.Prisma PostgresServerless Postgres from the Prisma ORM team, billed on requests and compute with a pooled connection limit per plan.

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