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PlanetScale
Managed Vitess/MySQL and Postgres at scale
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What PlanetScale is
Cloud database hosting built on Vitess, now offering Postgres alongside MySQL as a first-class product. Known for horizontal sharding, branching workflows and running large databases without managing the sharding layer yourself.
What PlanetScale has cost
We have read this pricing page 3 times since Aug 2026. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.
- $5/moAug 2026 – Aug 2026 · Base · 2 readings · source
The entry plan changed name here, from Base to PlanetScale Postgres. That is a different plan, so the two prices are not a rise or a cut.
$5/moSept 2026 · PlanetScale Postgres · 1 reading · source
Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.
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Where PlanetScale sits on price
Entry prices across Developer Tools, cheapest first.
13 of these 13 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page. The median is taken across the 13 verified prices in Developer Tools. 1 more tool in this category does not publish an entry price and is not plotted. Showing the 10 cheapest.
PlanetScale pricing questions
- How much does PlanetScale cost?
- PlanetScale starts at $5 a month on its PlanetScale Postgres plan, billed monthly. That figure was read from planetscale.com's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
- Does PlanetScale have a free plan?
- No. PlanetScale does not publish an ongoing free plan.
- What is PlanetScale used for?
- Cloud database hosting built on Vitess, now offering Postgres alongside MySQL as a first-class product. Known for horizontal sharding, branching workflows and running large databases without managing the sharding layer yourself. People mainly use it to host a database, scale mysql, run postgres.
- What are the best alternatives to PlanetScale?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are GitHub, Vercel, Supabase, Sentry. GitHub starts lower at $4 a month. GitHub, Vercel, Supabase and Sentry publish a free plan.