PlanetScale review
MySQL and Postgres on Vitess, built to shard
Managed MySQL on Vitess, the sharding layer YouTube runs on, and now Postgres too. Schema changes go through deploy requests, so you can alter a large table without locking it.
Entry price
From $5/mo
Free: No free tier. Paid plans start at $5/mo.
Our PlanetScale verdict
PlanetScale costs from $5/mo. Nobody has reviewed it here yet, so this page is about what it costs and what it does, not how well it does it.
Apps that will outgrow a single database node. There is no free tier and no trial.
- Who it is not for
- No free tier since 2024, so there is nothing to try before you pay
- What this is based on
- Based on pricing read from PlanetScale's own page on 2026-08-28, and what the product says it does. No reviews yet, so no score.
Pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual /mo | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base, single node | $5 | Same as monthly | Development and low-traffic workloads, first 10 GB storage free on network-attached databases, 100 GB egress a month, branches and deploy requests included |
| Base, Metal | $50 | Same as monthly | Local NVMe storage for high-performance workloads, same features as single node |
PlanetScale price history
Every price changePlanetScale's pricing has not moved since we started tracking it on 2026-08-27. We read it off PlanetScale's own pricing page on every update, and this section fills in when something changes.
Read from PlanetScale's own pricing page, dated on the day we read it. We only claim a change happened between two dates we actually looked, never on a date we did not.
Engine
MySQL on Vitess, and Postgres
Free tier
None
Self-host
No, though Vitess itself is open source
Auth and storage built in
No, database only
Scales to zero
No
Portability
Standard MySQL or Postgres dump
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