Supabase — A hosted Postgres backend with a genuinely usable free tier and a $25 Pro plan — where the real bill is the compute you add per project.
Short answer: Supabase is a hosted Postgres platform with auth, storage, edge functions and realtime bundled around the database. The Free plan costs $0 for two active projects with a 500 MB database, 50,000 monthly active users and 1 GB of file storage, though free projects pause after a week of inactivity. Pro starts at $25 a month for the first project (additional projects from $10), raising limits to 100,000 MAU, 8 GB disk and 250 GB egress, with metered overage beyond each. Team starts at $599 a month for SOC 2, SSO and project-scoped access; Enterprise is custom. Every paid plan includes $10 a month of compute credit, which covers one Micro instance — larger instances run from $15 (Small) to $3,730 (16XL) per month.
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Verdict at a glance
Overall rating: 4.5/5 ★★★★☆
Standout: The free tier is real: two projects, 500 MB Postgres, 50,000 monthly active users and unlimited API requests, with no card. That is enough to ship a side project or validate a product before paying anything.
Watch out: The $25 headline is the plan fee, not the bill. Compute is priced per project and per size — Micro is covered by the $10 credit, but Small is $15, Medium $60 and Large $110 a month on top, and disk, egress and MAU all meter beyond the included allowance.
Supabase earns its rating by being the least surprising way to put a Postgres database, authentication and file storage behind an app. The Free plan is unusually generous — two active projects, a 500 MB database, 50,000 monthly active users, 5 GB of egress and 1 GB of storage, with unlimited API requests — and the only catch is that free projects pause after a week without traffic. Pro at $25 a month lifts the ceilings to 100,000 MAU, 8 GB of disk per project and 250 GB of egress, adds daily backups kept for seven days, email support and seven-day log retention, and bills overage per unit beyond that: $0.00325 per extra MAU, $0.125 per GB of disk, $0.09 per GB of egress. The thing to understand before choosing it is compute. Each project runs on an instance, and paid plans include $10 a month of compute credit — exactly one Micro instance with 1 GB of RAM on shared CPU. Move a production database to Small ($15), Medium ($60) or Large ($110, 2 dedicated vCPUs and 8 GB) and that is added to the $25, per project. Team at $599 a month exists for the compliance list — SOC 2 and ISO 27001, SSO, project-scoped and read-only access, HIPAA as a paid add-on — and Enterprise is quoted. For a solo developer or small team, the honest budget is $25 plus whatever compute the workload needs, and the pricing page’s calculator makes that figure easy to produce before committing.
Quick facts
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| Ideal team | Developers shipping web and mobile apps on Postgres |
| Learning curve | Low if you know SQL; the dashboard does the rest |
| Setup time | Minutes to a live database |
| Free trial | Free plan instead — no card |
| Free tier | ⭐ Two projects, 500 MB DB, 50,000 MAU, 1 GB storage |
| Entry | $25/mo Pro — first project included, extras from $10 |
| Compute | ⚠️ $10 credit covers Micro; Small $15, Medium $60, Large $110 per project |
| Team plan | $599/mo for SOC 2, SSO, project-scoped access |
Overview
Supabase packages a managed Postgres database with the pieces most applications need next to it: authentication with 50,000 monthly active users on the free plan, file storage, edge functions, realtime subscriptions and auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs. The pitch is that a team gets a production backend from one dashboard rather than assembling a database, an auth provider and an object store separately — and because it is plain Postgres underneath, nothing about the schema is proprietary.
The plan ladder has four rungs. Free is $0 and is a working tier, not a demo: unlimited API requests, 50,000 MAU, a 500 MB database on shared CPU with 500 MB of RAM, 5 GB of egress, 5 GB of cached egress, 1 GB of file storage and community support, limited to two active projects that pause after one week of inactivity. Pro starts at $25 a month with the first project included and additional projects from $10 each, raising the limits to 100,000 MAU, 8 GB of disk per project, 250 GB of egress, 250 GB of cached egress and 100 GB of file storage, with daily backups stored for seven days, seven-day log retention and email support. Beyond those allowances usage is metered: $0.00325 per MAU, $0.125 per GB of disk, $0.09 per GB of egress, $0.03 per GB of cached egress and $0.0213 per GB of storage. Log drains cost an additional $60 per drain per project.
Team starts at $599 a month and is the compliance tier — SOC 2 and ISO 27001, project-scoped and read-only access, HIPAA available as a paid add-on and SSO. Enterprise is quoted. Across every paid plan the figure that decides the actual bill is compute. Each project runs on an instance size, and paid plans include $10 a month of compute credit, enough for one Micro instance (shared CPU, 1 GB RAM, 60 direct connections). The published ladder above that runs Small $15 (2 GB), Medium $60 (4 GB), Large $110 (2 dedicated vCPUs, 8 GB), XL $210, 2XL $410, 4XL $960, 8XL $1,870, 12XL $2,800 and 16XL $3,730 a month, with larger sizes on request. A Pro project on a Large instance is therefore $135 a month before disk and egress, not $25.
Key features
- Managed Postgres — a full Postgres database per project with direct and pooled connections
- Auth — 50,000 MAU free, 100,000 on Pro, then $0.00325 per MAU
- Storage — 1 GB free, 100 GB on Pro, then $0.0213 per GB
- Auto-generated APIs — REST and GraphQL endpoints from the schema, unlimited requests on every plan
- Edge functions and realtime — serverless functions and live subscriptions included
- Free plan — ⭐ two active projects with no card, paused after a week idle
- Compute ladder — ⚠️ Micro covered by credit; Small $15 to 16XL $3,730 per project
- Backups and logs — daily backups for 7 days and 7-day log retention on Pro
- Log drains — $60 per drain per project
- Team compliance — SOC 2, ISO 27001, SSO and HIPAA add-on from $599/mo
Pricing (as of 2026-09-29)
Model: plan fee plus per-project compute and metered usage · Free tier: ⭐ Yes — two active projects, 500 MB database, 50,000 MAU · Entry paid: Pro $25/mo
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 2 active projects · 500 MB database · 50,000 MAU · 5 GB egress · 1 GB storage · ⚠️ paused after 1 week idle |
| Pro | From $25/mo | First project included, extras from $10 · 100,000 MAU · 8 GB disk · 250 GB egress · 100 GB storage · daily backups · $10 compute credit |
| Team | From $599/mo | Everything in Pro · SOC 2 and ISO 27001 · SSO · project-scoped and read-only access · HIPAA as paid add-on |
| Enterprise | Custom | Contact sales; compute above 16XL is also custom |
⚠️ Compute is billed per project on top of the plan. Paid plans include $10/mo of credit, which covers exactly one Micro instance (shared CPU, 1 GB RAM). Small is $15, Medium $60, Large $110, XL $210, 2XL $410, 4XL $960, 8XL $1,870, 12XL $2,800 and 16XL $3,730 a month.
⚠️ Overage on Pro is metered: $0.00325 per MAU beyond 100,000, $0.125 per GB of disk beyond 8 GB, $0.09 per GB of egress beyond 250 GB, $0.03 per GB of cached egress and $0.0213 per GB of file storage beyond 100 GB.
⭐ The Free plan needs no card and includes unlimited API requests. Its two constraints are two active projects and pausing after one week of inactivity — a paused project is restored from the dashboard, not deleted.
Log drains are $60 per drain per project. Team’s compliance features (SOC 2, ISO 27001, SSO, HIPAA add-on) are the reason to pay $599; there is no performance difference between Pro and Team at the same compute size.
Ratings breakdown
| Criterion | Score | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Ease Of Use | 4.5/5 | A live Postgres database with auth and storage in minutes |
| Features | 4.5/5 | Database, auth, storage, functions and realtime in one project |
| Value | 4.5/5 | ⭐ Free tier is real; ⚠️ compute per project is the bill to model |
| Support | 4.0/5 | Community on Free, email on Pro; priority support is a Team/Enterprise matter |
Pros
- Free plan with two projects, a 500 MB database and 50,000 MAU, no card
- Plain Postgres underneath, so nothing is locked to the platform
- Pro at $25 a month includes the first project and $10 of compute credit
- Unlimited API requests on every plan including Free
- Overage is metered per unit rather than forcing a tier jump
- Published compute ladder makes the real cost calculable in advance
- Daily backups and seven-day log retention on Pro
Cons
- ⚠️ Compute is extra per project — Large is $110 a month on top of Pro
- ⚠️ Free projects pause after one week without activity
- ⚠️ Team jumps from $25 to $599 for compliance features alone
- Additional Pro projects cost from $10 each
- Log drains are $60 per drain per project
- HIPAA is a paid add-on even on Team
Who it’s for
- Developers who want Postgres plus auth and storage without running servers
- Side projects and MVPs that can live inside the Free plan’s limits
- Small teams budgeting $25 plus a known compute size per project
- Teams that need SOC 2 or SSO and can justify the $599 Team tier
Who it’s not for
- Anyone expecting a flat $25 bill for a production database — model compute first
- Workloads that must never pause — the Free plan idles after a week
- Teams needing HIPAA on a mid-priced tier; it is a paid add-on on Team
- Projects that would be cheaper on a usage-only database such as Neon at low load
Best use cases
- Shipping an MVP on the Free plan and upgrading the one project that gets traction
- Running a production app on Pro with a Small or Medium instance
- Replacing a separate auth provider with Supabase Auth at 100,000 MAU
- Storing user uploads at $0.0213 per GB beyond the included 100 GB
- Meeting SOC 2 and SSO requirements on the Team plan
Integrations
Supabase exposes every project as a Postgres connection string plus auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs, so anything that speaks Postgres or HTTP works with it. Client libraries cover the mainstream web and mobile stacks, and the platform is a common backend behind AI app builders — Lovable and Bolt.new both generate apps that connect to it. Log drains ($60 per drain per project) forward logs to external observability tools such as Datadog, and hosting the frontend on Vercel is the standard pairing.
How it compares
| Supabase | Neon | Render | Firebase | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry paid | $25/mo (Pro) | $0.106 per CU-hour (Launch, usage-based) | $25/mo (Pro) plus compute | Pay as you go (Blaze) |
| Free tier | ⭐ 2 projects, 500 MB DB, 50,000 MAU | Yes — no time limit, no card | Yes — 512 MB instance with limits | Spark plan, no-cost allowances |
| What you get | Postgres + auth + storage + functions | Serverless Postgres | App hosting + managed Postgres | NoSQL/Firestore + auth + hosting |
| Compute model | ⚠️ Per project, Micro to 16XL | Per CU-hour, scales to zero | Per instance from $7/mo | Per operation and GB |
| Typical small production | $25 + $15 Small = $40/mo | Vendor’s typical Launch estimate $15/mo | $25 + $25 (2 GB) = $50/mo | Varies with reads and writes |
| Best fit | Full backend on Postgres | Database only, bursty load | Hosting and database together | Google-ecosystem mobile apps |
All figures read from each vendor’s own pricing page on 2026-09-29: supabase.com/pricing, neon.com/pricing, render.com/pricing and firebase.google.com/pricing. Neon’s $15 is the vendor’s own ‘typical spend’ example for intermittent load, not a fixed price.
Alternatives
Vercel is the usual frontend host in front of a Supabase project rather than a replacement. Neon offers serverless Postgres that scales to zero, priced per compute-hour, for teams that only need the database. Render bundles app hosting with managed Postgres from $25 a month plus instances from $7. Firebase is the Google-ecosystem alternative with a NoSQL model and pay-as-you-go billing. For AI-generated apps, Lovable and Bolt.new generate against Supabase directly, and Replit provides its own hosted database inside the workspace.
Recent changes
As of 2026-09-29, supabase.com/pricing lists four plans: Free at $0 with two active projects, a 500 MB database, 50,000 monthly active users, 5 GB of egress and 1 GB of file storage; Pro from $25 a month with the first project included and additional projects from $10, 100,000 MAU, 8 GB of disk, 250 GB of egress, 100 GB of storage and $10 of monthly compute credit; Team from $599 a month adding SOC 2, ISO 27001, SSO, project-scoped and read-only access and a HIPAA add-on; and Enterprise on request. Compute sizes are published from Micro (covered by the credit) through Small $15, Medium $60, Large $110, XL $210, 2XL $410, 4XL $960, 8XL $1,870, 12XL $2,800 and 16XL $3,730 a month. Overage rates on Pro are $0.00325 per MAU, $0.125 per GB of disk, $0.09 per GB of egress, $0.03 per GB of cached egress and $0.0213 per GB of storage, with log drains at $60 per drain per project.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Supabase cost?
Free is $0 for two active projects with a 500 MB database and 50,000 monthly active users. Pro starts at $25 a month with the first project included and additional projects from $10. Team starts at $599 a month and Enterprise is custom. Compute above the included Micro instance is billed per project, from $15 for Small.
Is the Supabase free plan enough for a real app?
For a small one, yes: unlimited API requests, 50,000 MAU, 500 MB of Postgres, 5 GB of egress and 1 GB of storage. The limits that bite are two active projects and the pause after one week without activity — a paused project must be restored from the dashboard before it serves traffic again.
What does Supabase Pro actually cost per month?
$25 for the plan and first project, plus compute. The $10 credit covers a Micro instance; a Small instance adds $15, Medium $60 and Large $110. Add $10 for each extra project, and metered overage beyond 100,000 MAU, 8 GB of disk and 250 GB of egress. A single production project on Small is $40 a month.
Why does the Team plan cost $599?
Team is Pro plus the compliance list: SOC 2 and ISO 27001, SSO, project-scoped and read-only access, and HIPAA as a paid add-on. There is no performance difference from Pro at the same compute size, so it is worth paying only when a customer or auditor requires those controls.
How does Supabase compare with Neon?
Supabase is a full backend — Postgres plus auth, storage, functions and realtime — priced as a plan plus per-project compute. Neon is serverless Postgres only, billed per compute-hour ($0.106 on Launch) with a vendor-quoted typical spend of $15 a month at intermittent load. Neon is cheaper for a bursty database; Supabase replaces more services.
Does Supabase work with AI app builders?
Yes. Lovable and Bolt.new generate applications that use Supabase for the database and authentication, which is a large part of why its free tier matters to people prototyping with those tools.
Sources
- Supabase – official pricing page, plans and compute add-ons (read 2026-09-29)
- Supabase – homepage (read 2026-09-29)
- Supabase – compute and disk documentation (read 2026-09-29)
Compiled from public sources; last verified 2026-09-29. Pricing is subject to change — verify with the vendor. Ratings reflect editorial opinion based on documented capabilities, published pricing, and aggregated user reviews. DigiJaws does not accept payment for review placement or rating.
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