PlanetScale
UnclaimedServerless MySQL with branching for schema changes
TL;DR - PlanetScale
- MySQL/PostgreSQL compatible serverless DB
- Scales automatically with your traffic
- Global data distribution for low latency
Pricing: Free plan available
Best for: Growing teams
Score: 87/100
Pricing Plans
free trialSingle Node
$5/month
Non-HA
- PostgreSQL
- Basic features
- Development use
Most Popular
PS-5 HA
$15/month
3-node cluster
- 1/16 vCPU
- 512MB memory
- High availability
Scaler Pro
Pay as you go
Up to 12% discount
- 10GB included
- $0.50/GB storage
- $0.06/GB egress
Enterprise
Custom
Contact sales
- BYO cloud
- Migration help
- Slack support
About PlanetScale
PlanetScale provides serverless MySQL with branching. Database branches for development workflow—MySQL that understands how developers work.
The branching is unique. The serverless scales. The MySQL compatibility helps.
Teams wanting modern MySQL experience choose PlanetScale for branching-enabled database.
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PlanetScale FAQ
PlanetScale eliminated their free tier in 2024. Paid plans start at $39/month (Scaler) with 10GB storage and 1 billion row reads. They offer a trial period for new users.
PlanetScale Scaler costs $39/month (10GB, 1B reads), Scaler Pro costs $99/month (more resources), and Enterprise has custom pricing. Usage-based billing for overages.
PlanetScale is a serverless MySQL platform with branching, deploy requests, and zero-downtime schema changes. It's built on Vitess, the database technology used by YouTube.
Branches let you make schema changes in isolation, like Git branches for your database. You can test changes, then create a deploy request to merge to production safely.
Yes, PlanetScale now supports foreign key constraints. They're enforced at the database level and work with their branching and deploy request workflow.
PlanetScale works with Prisma, Drizzle, TypeORM, Sequelize, and any MySQL-compatible ORM. It's particularly popular with TypeScript projects using Prisma.
PlanetScale is MySQL with advanced branching. Supabase is Postgres with real-time, auth, and storage. Choose PlanetScale for MySQL expertise; Supabase for a fuller backend platform.