About PlanetScale
PlanetScale is a cloud database platform that provides MySQL-compatible serverless databases, with Postgres and Vitess options for scalable workloads. It serves developers and engineering teams needing high-speed, reliable databases in the cloud and supports deployment flexibility to fit security and compliance needs.
Key Features
Key capabilities include:
Horizontal sharding (Vitess)
enables scale-out across thousands of nodes via a shared-nothing architecture
NVMe-backed storage
delivers extremely high IOPS and cloud database performance
Postgres and Vitess options
supports Postgres-compatible and MySQL-compatible workloads within a single platform
Flexible deployment options
includes BYOC and PlanetScale Managed to meet security and compliance requirements
Summary
The platform delivers fast, scalable cloud databases with sharding and flexible deployment options, addressing the needs of developers and engineering teams running large, production workloads.
Pricing
View pricingArchitecture PS-5
$15 / monthly
- Includes 3 nodes
- 1× primary database
- 2× replica databases
- 1/16 vCPU
- 512 MB memory
- 10 GB storage
- Total resources: 3/16 vCPU, 1.5 GB
Scaler Pro
Pay as you go / monthly
- Pay month to month based on resource usage
- Minimum of 3 instances for production branches
- First 10 GB storage included, then $0.50 per GB
- Add-ons for additional development branch hours, SSO, upgraded support
Enterprise
Custom pricing / custom
- Bring your own cloud
- Upgraded support
- Access to team’s sharding/Vitess expertise
- Infrastructure costs billed by cloud provider
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