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PlanetScale

★★★★★ 4.5 (4,000 reviews)
Analytics Automation Cloud Based Enterprise Integrations
Freemium Free-$39/month

Overview

A serverless MySQL-compatible database platform with branching, deploy requests, and automatic scaling.

Key Features

  • MySQL compatible
  • Database branching
  • Deploy requests
  • Auto-scaling
  • Read replicas
  • Insights
  • Connection pooling
  • CLI

Pros

  • Database branching is revolutionary
  • Serverless scaling
  • Great developer experience
  • Vitess-powered

Cons

  • Free tier removed
  • MySQL only
  • No foreign keys enforcement
  • Can be expensive at scale

PlanetScale Pricing Plans

Hobby

$0

  • ✓ 5GB storage
  • ✓ 1B row reads
MOST POPULAR

Scaler

$29/mo

  • ✓ 10GB storage
  • ✓ unlimited reads

Scaler Pro

$39/mo

  • ✓ bigger databases
  • ✓ more connections

Enterprise

Custom

  • ✓ SLA
  • ✓ dedicated support

Company Info

Founded2018
HeadquartersSan Francisco, CA

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