PlanetScale pricing
Our plans scale with you. All plans include:
- Daily backups
- Automatic failover
- Enterprise-grade security
Plans
Scaler Pro
Choose the compute and memory resources for your needs
1. Choose your cluster size
1/8 vCPU and 1 GB RAM
2. Choose your region
3. Enter your database size
The Scaler Pro plan gives you full control over the resources provisioned for your database. Scale up and down on-demand with our preconfigured sizes.
- Autoscaling storage includes replicas
- Deployed across 3 availability zones
- 1 production branch included with 2 replicas for high-availability
- 1,440 development branch hours per month included
- Automatic backups every 12 hours, 2 days retention included
- Standard Support included
Enterprise
Enable sharding and clusters with up to 64 cores and 256 GB RAM per shard
Starts at $3,000/month
- Custom pricing based on usage or resources
- Unmetered connections
- Horizontal sharding
- Deploy via Multi-tenant, Single-tenant, or in your AWS or GCP account
- Business Support included
Hobby
Free for hobby use
- 1 billion row reads per month
- 10 million row writes per month
- 5 GB storage included
- 1 production and 1 development branch
Comparing PlanetScale vs. AWS
“PlanetScale was an easy choice for us on the technology and support alone. However, we were also able to generate meaningful savings on our AWS bill and reinvest that into growing our business.”
Todd BermanCTO, Attentive
“Migrating from AWS to PlanetScale was painless. Since moving, we’ve experienced significant improvements in reliability, scalability, and productivity.”
Andrew BarbaCTO, Barstool Sports
Amazon Aurora | ||
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Scale | ||
Horizontal sharding available with no application-level changes required; standard scaling available (vertical or read replicas) | Standard scaling (vertical or read replicas) | |
Connections | ||
Technically unlimited | 16,000 for the MySQL primary | |
Cache | ||
Native caching available with PlanetScale Boost, requires no configuration or cache invalidation | MySQL query cache is not available in Aurora 3 (MySQL 8) or Aurora Serverless v2 | |
Replicas | ||
2+ replicas per production branch in different availability zones
| Up to 15 replicas per primary across availability zones | |
Primaries | ||
Unlimited with horizontal sharding | Only 1 available | |
Backups | ||
Automatic, pre-validated
| Requires user input, then automatic | |
Managed | ||
All operational tasks are fully managed, such as automatic version upgrades, configuration, and more with the support of database experts | Responsible for some operations | |
Staging | ||
Development branching of your schema (and optionally data) | Blue/green deployments with downtime during switchover and no switchback | |
Schema change workflow | ||
Native, fully-online, Git-like functionality | 3rd-party or manual configuration, instant DDL for limited set of operations | |
Zero downtime migrations | ||
Online schema changes built-in | Unavailable natively | |
Schema recovery | ||
Revert schema changes natively with no downtime or data loss between changes | Backtrack restore to a point-in-time |
Amazon Aurora | |||
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Scalability | Scale | ||
Connections | Technically unlimited | 16,000 for the MySQL primary | |
Cache | |||
Manageability | Replicas | ||
Primaries | Unlimited with horizontal sharding | Only 1 available | |
Backups | Requires user input, then automatic | ||
Managed | Responsible for some operations | ||
Workflow | Staging | ||
Schema change workflow | |||
Zero downtime migrations | Online schema changes built-in | Unavailable natively | |
Schema recovery | Backtrack restore to a point-in-time |
Frequently asked questions
Will I be charged for usage and storage for database branches?
Yes, usage across all of your database branches is included in your plan limits.
Can I change my cluster size at any time on the Scaler Pro plan?
Yes, you can change your cluster size at any time, on your own, online, without dropping client connections. It will take a few minutes to complete.
Do you offer any Scaler Pro annual plans with discounts?
Check out the Discounts doc for more information on Scaler Pro discounts.
Straightforward pricing that scales
PlanetScale offers plans built for the needs of your application. Spend less time managing your database and more time on your business.