#1 in DatabasesUpdated 2026-08

Supabase

by Supabase · Hosted Postgres with auth, storage, realtime and edge functions

87.7 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

Supabase is a hosted platform that gives each project its own Postgres database. Around it sit authentication with row level security, file storage, realtime sync, edge functions, vector embeddings and instant REST data APIs, managed from a dashboard with table and SQL editors. The code is open source and can be self-hosted.

Best for: Developers who want a hosted Postgres database with auth, storage and APIs in one platform
Pricing: Free tier, then Pro from $25/month and Team from $599/month, both with usage-based charges on top; Enterprise is quoted on request.
Runs on: WebSelf-hostedCLI

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Every project gets a dedicated Postgres database
Auth, storage, realtime, functions and vector in one platform
Open source, inspectable on GitHub and self-hostable
Free tier covers 50,000 monthly active users

Trade-offs

Free projects pause after 1 week idle and are capped at 2 active projects
SOC2 and ISO 27001 only from the Team plan at $599/month
Usage charges for egress, storage, MAUs and compute sit on top of the plan fee
Extra projects add from $10/month each in compute

Pricing

Published plans from Supabase’s own pricing page, in USD. Usage charges and add-ons may apply on top.

Supabase pricing tiers, monthly rates in USD
Plan	Monthly	Includes
FREE	Freeper month	50,000 monthly active users 500 MB database, 1 GB file storage, 5 GB egress Community support only Projects pause after 1 week of inactivity; 2 active projects
PRO	$25per month, first project included	100,000 MAUs, then $0.00325 per MAU 8 GB disk per project, 100 GB file storage, 250 GB egress Daily backups kept 7 days, 7-day log retention Email support; additional projects from $10/month
TEAM	$599per month, first project included	SOC2 and ISO 27001; HIPAA as a paid add-on SSO for the dashboard and read-only/project-scoped roles Daily backups kept 14 days, 28-day log retention Priority email support with SLAs
ENTERPRISE	Contact sales	Designated support manager and 24×7×365 support Uptime SLAs and private Slack channel Bring your own cloud Custom security questionnaires

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 92 out of 100
API quality: 95 out of 100
Documentation: 90 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 72 out of 100
Pricing transparency: 100 out of 100
Changelog: 100 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 65 out of 100
Operational trust: 70 out of 100

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness: 85 out of 100
Maintenance: 100 out of 100

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