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PlanetScale

planetscale.com
Database Management
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The world’s fastest and most scalable cloud databases

How to Replace PlanetScale

Overview

PlanetScale is a cloud database platform that offers high-performance, scalable, and reliable databases for businesses. It provides a range of features, including branching and deploy requests, vector data support, roll back capabilities, and full database observability. The platform supports both Vitess/MySQL and Postgres and is built by the infrastructure teams behind Facebook, GitHub, Twitter, Slack, YouTube, and more.

Features

7 features across 2 categories

Core(6)

Branching and deploy requests

Allows for zero downtime schema changes

Explicit sharding workflows

Automate horizontal scaling of database

Full database observability

Provides detailed overview of cluster health

Global Edge Network

Automatically route query traffic to local nodes

Roll back capabilities

Roll back bad schema changes with no downtime and no data loss

Vector data support

Store vector data alongside relational data

Also in: Insider CDP, Ironclad, Hunter

Integration(1)

Integrations

Integrate with Fivetran, Airbyte, Hightouch, Datadog, Vantage, Debezium, and more

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Pricing

PlanetScale Postgres

$5/month
  • ✓Fully managed PostgreSQL cluster
  • ✓High availability clusters
  • ✓Automatic failover
  • ✓Connection pooling
  • ✓Branching and deploy requests

PlanetScale Metal

Popular
$50/month
  • ✓NVMe-backed performance
  • ✓Unlimited IOPS
  • ✓High availability clusters
  • ✓Automatic failover
  • ✓Connection pooling

Cost Calculator

Keep Paying PlanetScale

Monthly$5/mo
Yearly$60/yr
5-Year Total$300

Build It Yourself

Est. Build Time~1 hrs
Hosting$20/mo
DifficultyEasy

Total Cost Comparison

1 Year
SaaS
$60
DIY
$240
3 Years
SaaS
$180
DIY
$720
5 Years
SaaS
$300
DIY
$1.2k

DIY hosting estimate based on Vercel + Supabase free/pro tiers (~$20/mo). Build time estimated from 7 features at easy complexity.

Start BuildingGet It Built

Build vs Buy

Should you build a PlanetScale alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 7 features.

Buy PlanetScale

Better Value
Monthly cost$50/mo
3-year total$1,800
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$12,000
Maintenance$180/mo
3-year total$18,480
Dev time~1 months

Buying PlanetScale saves ~$16,680 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 7 features and a BuildScore of 4/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

6 known integrations

AirbyteDatadogDebeziumFivetranHightouchVantage