Best PlanetScale Alternatives

PlanetScale is a serverless MySQL platform built on Vitess with branching workflows, but pricing changes, the removal of its free tier, and feature preferences lead developers to explore alternatives. People look for managed databases with better pricing, Postgres support, or generous free tiers.

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Neon

Freemium

A serverless Postgres database with branching and autoscaling.

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Supabase

Freemium

An open-source Firebase alternative with Postgres, auth, and storage.

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#3

Amazon RDS

Paid

AWS managed relational database service supporting multiple engines.

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Turso

Freemium

An edge-hosted SQLite database service built on libSQL.

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CockroachDB

Freemium

Distributed SQL database designed for scale and resilience.

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Vitess

Open Source

Open-source database clustering system for scaling MySQL.

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MongoDB Atlas

Freemium

Fully managed cloud database for MongoDB with global clusters.

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Amazon Aurora

Paid

AWS's high-performance managed MySQL and Postgres-compatible database.

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Google Cloud SQL

Paid

Fully managed relational database service on Google Cloud.

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Xata

Freemium

Serverless database platform with a spreadsheet-like UI on Postgres.

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TiDB Cloud

Freemium

Managed distributed SQL database compatible with MySQL.

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Aiven

Paid

Managed open-source data infrastructure across multiple clouds.

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