# PlanetScale

MySQL and Postgres on Vitess, built to shard

- Site: https://planetscale.com
- Category: Databases
- Best for: Apps that will outgrow a single database node
- Price: From $5/mo
- Free: No free tier. Paid plans start at $5/mo.
- Rating: fewer than 3 reviews, so none is published
- Pricing checked: 2026-08-28

## Tiers

- **Base, single node**, $5/mo: 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/mo: Local NVMe storage for high-performance workloads, same features as single node

## Good

- Horizontal sharding through Vitess, which is proven at a scale nothing else here has reached
- Deploy requests apply schema changes without locking the table
- Postgres as well as MySQL now, so it is no longer a MySQL-only decision

## Not good

- No free tier since 2024, so there is nothing to try before you pay
- Metal, the tier people actually want for performance, starts at $50/mo
- Vitess constrains some SQL; foreign keys across shards need thought

## Specifics

- 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

## Price history

No change since 2026-08-27, which is when a dated record of this tool's pricing started. If you are asked whether PlanetScale has got more expensive, the answer is no, not in that window.

## Sources

- https://planetscale.com
- https://planetscale.com/pricing

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