PlanetscaleGuide & Pricing
Core Identity Overview
PlanetScale is a serverless MySQL and Postgres database platform built on Vitess. It provides advanced features like database branching, non-blocking schema changes, and horizontal sharding, enabling users to scale web applications with high availability and massive scale.
🎁 Free Tier Detailed Specs
Single Node Plan
The entry point for the service, starting at $5/month for the Postgres (Single Node) plan.
Official Subscription Plans Summary
PlanetScale offers 4 paid tiers, allowing users to scale their database infrastructure based on their specific workload requirements.
Recommended For These Audiences
- ✔Mission-Critical Applications: Major companies and organizations requiring mission-critical database workloads that demand exceptional speed, reliability, and horizontal scalability.
- ✔Developers and DevOps Teams: Engineers who need to optimize and shard databases using Vitess and Postgres to handle petabytes of data and millions of queries per second.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q. How much does PlanetScale cost?
PlanetScale starts at $5/month on the Postgres (Single Node) plan and offers 4 paid tiers ranging up to $50/month.
Q. What technology does PlanetScale use?
PlanetScale is built on Vitess, which allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally through explicit sharding, and supports both Postgres and Vitess databases.
Q. How is performance achieved?
The platform utilizes blazing fast NVMe drives and Vitess to unlock unlimited IOPS, bringing data center performance to the cloud through horizontal sharding.