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Affinity vs PlanetScale: 2026 Comparison

Affinity PlanetScale
Overview A relationship intelligence CRM designed for dealmakers in private capital, investment banking, and consulting. A serverless MySQL-compatible database platform with branching, deploy requests, and automatic scaling.
Pricing Subscription (Custom pricing) Freemium (Free-$39/month)
Key Features
  • Relationship intelligence
  • Automatic data capture
  • Deal management
  • Analytics
  • Email integration
  • Chrome extension
  • Alliances
  • Pipeline management
  • MySQL compatible
  • Database branching
  • Deploy requests
  • Auto-scaling
  • Read replicas
  • Insights
  • Connection pooling
  • CLI
Pros
  • Excellent relationship mapping
  • Automatic activity capture
  • Great for deal-driven firms
  • Strong analytics
  • Database branching is revolutionary
  • Serverless scaling
  • Great developer experience
  • Vitess-powered
Cons
  • Expensive
  • Niche use case
  • Limited marketing features
  • Not for general business use
  • Free tier removed
  • MySQL only
  • No foreign keys enforcement
  • Can be expensive at scale

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