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Managed databases · 13 alternatives · PlanetScale iScore 67 (#11/14)

Every managed databases provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers PlanetScale's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from PlanetScale's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.

Ranked by iScore
  1. SupabaseEntry paid plan: $25/month for Pro, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits — enough to…72#1/14
  2. NeonEntry paid plan: No fixed monthly fee. Launch is usage-based — Neon's own worked example puts typical spen…69#2/14
  3. AivenEntry paid plan: $5 a month for Developer — one VM, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage, with no choice of cloud…69#3/14
  4. TigerDataEntry paid plan: Compute starts at $30/month on Performance, billed hourly, with storage charged separatel…69#4/14
  5. TursoEntry paid plan: $4.99/month for Developer, the cheapest paid plan. Scaler is $24.92 and Pro $416.58.69#5/14
  6. Prisma PostgresEntry paid plan: $10/month for Starter. Pro is $49 and Business $129, each including a larger request allo…68#6/14
  7. FirebaseEntry paid plan: No plan fee and no stated minimum: Blaze is pay-as-you-go, billed to a linked Cloud Billi…68#7/14
  8. Amazon AuroraEntry paid plan: No plan fee and no minimum commitment — Aurora charges for what you use. AWS's own worked…68#8/14
  9. Amazon RDSEntry paid plan: $0.016 per DB instance-hour on-demand for db.t4g.micro, the smallest DB instance class —…67#9/14
  10. NileEntry paid plan: $15/month for Pro, which carries a production SLA. Scale is $350/month.67#10/14
  11. Crunchy BridgeEntry paid plan: $9 a month for Hobby-0 — 2 cores, 512 MB, AWS only. Crunchy says the Hobby tier runs on l…67#12/14
  12. ScaleGridEntry paid plan: Dedicated Hosting starts at $10/month for Redis; $13/month PostgreSQL, $18/month MongoDB,…67#13/14
  13. Neo4jEntry paid plan: $65/GB/month (minimum 1GB cluster) on AuraDB Professional, or $0.09/hour ($65.70/month fo…64#14/14

Where PlanetScale stands against these 13

PlanetScale's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.

Free tier
No. 9 of the 12 alternatives that document it have one: Aiven, Firebase, Neo4j, Neon, Nile, Prisma Postgres and 3 more.
Entry paid plan
$5/month for a single-node Postgres database on network-attached storage; PlanetScale Metal with local NVMe…Joint 2nd cheapest of the 9 that document it. Cheapest: Turso — $4.99/month for Developer, the cheapest paid plan.
Egress over allowance
100 GB of egress included, then $0.06/GBCheapest of the 4 that document it. Next: Supabase — $0.09 per GB for uncached egress and $0.03 per GB for cached, charged only above the plan's quota.
Regions
19 regions — 12 on AWS (Tokyo, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Montreal, Frankfurt, Dublin, London, São Paulo, N.…5th highest of the 9 that document it. Highest: Firebase — 43 regional locations across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and…
Backup retention
Automatic backups every 12 hours on production and development branches, retained 2 days by defaultJoint 5th highest of the 6 that document it. Highest: Crunchy Bridge — 10 days, included in the cluster price rather than sold as a tier, and extendable by configuring additional…

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