- Starting price
- $5/mo
- Website
- planetscale.com
- Social media
- @PlanetScale
About PlanetScale
PlanetScale is a cloud database platform delivering MySQL-compatible serverless databases, with Postgres and Vitess options for scalable workloads. It serves developers and engineering teams needing fast, reliable databases in the cloud and supports deployment flexibility to fit security and compliance needs.
Key Features
For teams growing beyond a single-node setup, PlanetScale addresses scale, performance, and deployment constraints with a practical set of capabilities:
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
Best for backend engineers, platform teams, and data-heavy SaaS applications.
Pricing
View pricingPlans and prices as listed on planetscale.com as of Sep 24, 2026.
Single node
$5 / monthly
- Development and low-traffic workloads
High Availability
$30 / monthly
- 1 primary + 2 replicas across 3 availability zones
Neki
$30 / monthly
- Postgres databases with horizontal sharding - pricing based on shard size and count, router configuration, replicas, storage, backup storage, and network usage
Metal
$50 / monthly
- High-performance needs with local NVMe storage
PlanetScale Managed
variable / upon infrastructure usage
- Deploy in your own AWS or GCP account, ongoing support, migration assistance
