Database & Data Management · pricing
PlanetScale pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for PlanetScale. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the database & data management tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- $15/month
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Not on record
What is on record
The PlanetScale catalogue entry carries a starting price of $15/month and a subscription pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the PlanetScale review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full PlanetScale feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Database Branching
- Non-blocking Schema Changes
- Insights
- Horizontal Scaling
- Connection Pooling
- Query Caching
- Automatic Backups
- Global Replication
Integrations
- Prisma
- Rails
- Laravel
- Django
- Node.js
- Vercel
Security
- SOC2
- GDPR
- TLS
- Encryption at Rest
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
- Cli support
People bring PlanetScale in for mysql database hosting with automatic failover and replication, vitess-based sharding for horizontal scaling across large datasets, cloud provider flexibility across aws, gcp, azure with 60+ regions, cost-effective database clusters using arm64 architecture options. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to PlanetScale are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Database & Data Management
Too few database & data management tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PlanetScale (this page) | $15/month | subscription | - | |
| Knack | On request | subscription | - | vs PlanetScale |
| Ninox | On request | subscription | - | vs PlanetScale |
| Grist | On request | subscription | - | vs PlanetScale |
| Cloudinary | Free | freemium | - | vs PlanetScale |
| Azure SQL | Free | - | - | vs PlanetScale |
| Amazon Aurora | Free | usage-based | - | vs PlanetScale |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the PlanetScale badges page.
Before you pay for PlanetScale
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: not published on the record we hold. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare PlanetScale against the tools that do have one before committing.
PlanetScale runs on cloud-hosted (aws, gcp, azure), and is published by PlanetScale Inc of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the PlanetScale review, and the rest of the category is under best database & data management tools.
PlanetScale pricing questions
- How much does PlanetScale cost?
- PlanetScale starts at $15/month. No tier-by-tier breakdown is published on the record we hold.
- Does PlanetScale have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: PlanetScale is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which database & data management tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 database & data management tools listed alongside PlanetScale have a free tier: Cloudinary, Azure SQL, Amazon Aurora, Apache Druid, Apache Pinot.
- What am I actually paying for with PlanetScale?
- The record lists 22 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for mysql database hosting with automatic failover and replication, vitess-based sharding for horizontal scaling across large datasets, cloud provider flexibility across aws, gcp, azure with 60+ regions.
- Does PlanetScale charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these PlanetScale prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare PlanetScale against before paying?
- The closest database & data management tools in this directory are Knack, Ninox, Grist, Cloudinary. Each has a side-by-side comparison with PlanetScale covering price, platforms and features.