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PlanetScale is a serverless MySQL-compatible database platform built on Vitess. It provides branching for database schema changes, horizontal scaling, and non-blocking schema migrations for modern applications.
Key Features
MySQL-compatible database
Database branching
Non-blocking schema changes
Horizontal sharding (Vitess)
PlanetScale Insights (query analytics)
Connection pooling
Multi-region replication
Automatic backups
CLI and API management
SOC 2 Type 2 compliant
Pricing Plans
Hobby
Free
forever
- 5 GB storage
- 1 billion row reads/month
- 10 million row writes/month
- 1 production branch
- 1 development branch
Scaler
$29
per month
- 10 GB storage
- Unlimited reads
- 50M row writes included
- 2 production branches
- 5 development branches
- PlanetScale Insights
Scaler Pro
$39
per month
- 10 GB storage included
- Multi-region reads
- Unlimited branches
- Audit logs
- SSO
- SOC 2 report access
Enterprise
Custom
custom
- Custom storage & compute
- Dedicated clusters
- BAA/HIPAA
- Migration assistance
- Dedicated support
- Custom SLA
Tags
databaseMySQLserverlessVitessscalingdeveloper tools
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