Supabase ranks #4 of 12 in our managed postgres providers testing. a whole platform for $147 — and point-in-time recovery at $100 a month per week of retention..
80/100
the best free tier here and a fair paid price for what's bundled — with a recovery add-on priced like a separate product.
why people look for an alternative
−pitr costs $100/mo per seven days of retention
−compute is additive to a mandatory $25 base fee
−free projects auto-pause after a week idle
−regions not listed on the pricing page
stay with Supabase if most generous free tier in this ranking is the thing you care about most — nothing below beats it on that.
#1 in managed postgres providers · $150 with pooling, backups and egress all included — the only bill here you can predict exactly.
86/100
verdictthe most complete inclusive pricing in the category — everything you'd otherwise pay extra for is in the number — with a new owner worth watching.
Crunchy Bridge vs Supabase
Supabase
Crunchy Bridge
price
$146.50/mo at the anchor
$150/mo at the anchor
free tier
yes
no
monthly at anchor
$146.50
$150
egress
$0.09/gb past 250gb
free
backups and pitr
backups free, pitr $100/wk
included
scale to zero
free tier only
no
free tier
500mb db, 5gb egress
none
switch forproduction databases where a predictable invoice matters more than a free tier.
pros
+pooling, backups and egress all included in the base price
+billed by the minute, prorated to the second
+42 regions across aws, azure and gcp
+publishes a worked pricing example matching real workloads
cons
−acquired by snowflake — long-term roadmap uncertain
#5 in managed postgres providers · genuine scale-to-zero makes this the cheapest or the dearest option here, depending entirely on whether it's running.
78/100
verdictthe wrong tool for the workload we priced and the right one for most of the workloads people actually have.
Neon vs Supabase
Supabase
Neon
price
$146.50/mo at the anchor
$189.76/mo always-on
free tier
yes
yes
monthly at anchor
$146.50
$189.76 always-on
egress
$0.09/gb past 250gb
$0.10/gb past 500gb
backups and pitr
backups free, pitr $100/wk
included via storage history
scale to zero
free tier only
yes — default 5 min
free tier
500mb db, 5gb egress
100 cu-hours, 0.5gb
switch fordevelopment, preview environments and spiky workloads — precisely not a database that runs all month.
pros
+genuine scale-to-zero with configurable autosuspend
+cheapest branching here — 10 free, then $1.50 each
+pitr included via storage history, not an add-on
+no monthly minimums since december 2025
cons
−most expensive real instance at an always-on workload
−azure projects must migrate by 5 october 2026
−acquired by databricks — roadmap direction unclear
#7 in managed postgres providers · $142 with nothing rounded up — and no database features to speak of.
72/100
verdictthe most granular metering here with no tier sizes to overpay for — because there is no postgres product, just a container billed like any other.
Railway vs Supabase
Supabase
Railway
price
$146.50/mo at the anchor
$142.49/mo at the anchor
free tier
yes
no
monthly at anchor
$146.50
$142.49
egress
$0.09/gb past 250gb
$0.05/gb
backups and pitr
backups free, pitr $100/wk
not documented
scale to zero
free tier only
not confirmed
free tier
500mb db, 5gb egress
$1/mo credit
switch forteams already deploying on railway who want the database beside their services.
#9 in managed postgres providers · billed per database operation, which makes it either the cheapest thing here or uncomparable — and for our anchor, uncomparable.
66/100
verdicta genuinely different pricing model that suits a lot of real applications and cannot be placed against a fixed always-on workload.
Prisma Postgres vs Supabase
Supabase
Prisma Postgres
price
$146.50/mo at the anchor
$129/mo base
free tier
yes
yes
monthly at anchor
$146.50
n/a — operation-based
egress
$0.09/gb past 250gb
$0.08-0.09/gib after free tier
backups and pitr
backups free, pitr $100/wk
included, 7-30 days
scale to zero
free tier only
implicit — no instance
free tier
500mb db, 5gb egress
100k operations, 500mb
switch forlow-traffic and spiky applications where a provisioned instance would sit idle.
pros
+no fixed cost when the database is idle
+free tier of 100,000 operations and fifty databases
+pooling and backups included with no add-ons
+storage allowance covers the anchor at the business tier
cons
−operation-based billing can't be compared on a compute anchor
−cost unpredictable if query volume is unpredictable
#11 in managed postgres providers · the free database isn't paused after thirty days — it's deleted.
60/100
verdictsensible per-second billing and tight app integration, sold from a page that won't show its own prices — and a free tier that destroys your data.
Render Postgres vs Supabase
Supabase
Render Postgres
price
$146.50/mo at the anchor
not readable
free tier
yes
yes
monthly at anchor
$146.50
not readable
egress
$0.09/gb past 250gb
not published
backups and pitr
backups free, pitr $100/wk
exists, price unconfirmed
scale to zero
free tier only
no
free tier
500mb db, 5gb egress
deleted after 30 days
switch forteams already running services on render who want the database in the same place.
pros
+billing prorated to the second
+tight integration with render's app hosting
+wide tier range from $6 to $6,200
+storage overage clearly stated at $0.30/gb
cons
−free database is deleted after 30 days, not paused
every tool on this page went through the same test as Supabase — same tasks, same order, scored the same way. the comparison tables are the figures from that testing, not vendor spec sheets.