--- title: "Supabase review: pricing and who it suits" url: "https://trialvalid.com/blog/supabase-review.md" canonical_url: "https://trialvalid.com/blog/supabase-review" last_updated: "2026-10-19" type: "guide" summary: "Supabase is a hosted Postgres platform with auth, storage and functions. A free tier exists; Pro is $25 a month plus usage past the included amounts." related: ["https://trialvalid.com/blog.md", "https://trialvalid.com/comparison.md", "https://trialvalid.com/gross-margin-calculator.md", "https://trialvalid.com/product.md"] --- # Supabase review: pricing and who it suits > **For AI agents:** the complete index of TrialValid pages is [llms.txt](https://trialvalid.com/llms.txt). Every page is also served as markdown at its URL plus .md. Supabase is a hosted Postgres platform with auth, storage and functions. A free tier exists; Pro is $25 a month plus usage past the included amounts. > TrialValid has no affiliate, referral or other commercial relationship with Supabase, and nobody paid for this review. Every price and statement below was read from Supabase's own pages on 19 Oct 2026. | At a glance | Detail | | --- | --- | | What it is | A hosted backend built on Postgres: a dedicated database per project, sign-in, file storage, realtime, edge functions, vector search and scheduled jobs. | | What it costs (checked 19 Oct 2026) | Free at $0 with two active projects. Pro from $25 a month with usage billed past the included amounts. Team from $599 a month. Enterprise is custom. | | Who built it, per its own company page | Supabase Inc, a fully remote company that describes itself as one of the fastest growing open source communities. | | Who it suits | Developers and small teams who want Postgres with auth and storage handled, from a weekend prototype to a production app. | | Verdict | A low entry price with a $10 compute credit on paid plans. The bill follows usage, so estimate monthly active users and egress before you commit. | ## What Supabase is Supabase gives each project its own Postgres database and wraps the pieces an application keeps rebuilding around it: user sign-in, file storage, realtime subscriptions, serverless functions, vector storage and scheduled jobs. The product list on its pages names database, auth, functions, compute, realtime, storage, vector and cron. For a SaaS founder the practical meaning is a backend you can stand up in an afternoon and keep as the product grows. The pricing page describes the path as starting free, collaborating with a team, then scaling. ## Features worth knowing - A dedicated Postgres database for every project, with unlimited API requests on the free plan. - Auth that is priced by monthly active users: 50,000 on Free and 100,000 on Pro, with social sign-in and custom SMTP on the free plan. - File storage, a basic CDN, realtime messaging and edge functions, each with included amounts on every plan. - Compute add-ons from Micro at $10 a month up to 64 vCPUs and 256 GB of memory, billed hourly. - A spend cap that is on by default for Pro, so costs stay within the included quota until you switch it off. - Paid add-ons listed on the page include a custom domain from $100 a month and point-in-time recovery. ## Who is behind it The company page presents Supabase as part of one of the fastest growing open source communities and lists its investors and press coverage. It says the company is fully remote, with a strong affinity for open source maintainers and former founders. It describes an engineering team drawn from AWS, Google, Palantir, Stripe and other Y Combinator companies. We read no more than the page states and make no further claim about the company. ## Pricing as the vendor states it Supabase has four plans. Free and Pro show their included amounts below as listed on 19 Oct 2026; overage rates apply after the included amount on Pro. | Plan | Price | Included | After the included amount | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 a month | 50,000 monthly active users, 500 MB database, 5 GB egress, 1 GB storage | Projects pause after 1 week of inactivity; limit of 2 active projects | | Pro | From $25 a month | 100,000 monthly active users, 8 GB disk, 250 GB egress, 100 GB storage, $10 compute credit | $0.00325 per user, $0.125 per GB disk, $0.09 per GB egress, $0.0213 per GB storage | | Team | From $599 a month | Everything in Pro plus SSO for the dashboard, priority email support with SLAs, longer backup and log retention | See the vendor page | | Enterprise | Custom | Technical account management, premium support, a private Slack channel | Contact sales | Compute is billed per project: Micro $10, Small $15 a month, with larger sizes listed up to 16XL. Because paid plans include a $10 credit, a single Micro project on Pro costs the plan price alone. Three worked months on Pro, built from the listed rates (our own examples, not Supabase figures): Pro plan: $25.00; Compute: 1 Micro project, less the $10 credit: $0.00; Auth: 20,000 monthly active users (100,000 included): $0.00; Disk: 3 GB (8 GB included): $0.00; Egress: 40 GB (250 GB included): $0.00. Total $25.00. Adding a second Micro project takes it to $35.00. A growing app at 120,000 monthly active users, 12 GB of disk and 300 GB of egress on one Micro project: Pro plan: $25.00; Compute: 1 Micro project, less the $10 credit: $0.00; Auth: 120,000 monthly active users (100,000 included): $65.00; Disk: 12 GB (8 GB included): $0.50; Egress: 300 GB (250 GB included): $4.50. Total $95.00 a month, almost all of it from users past the included 100,000. ## Alternatives Firebase, Neon, a managed Postgres from a cloud provider, and running Postgres yourself. Supabase's own site offers pages for switching from Firebase and from Neon. ## Who Supabase fits - A solo founder or small team that wants Postgres, sign-in and storage without assembling them. - A product whose user count is easy to forecast, so the per-user charge past the included amount is predictable. - A team that wants to start free and add paid features only when the product earns them. - Less suited to a product with a very large free user base, because the monthly-active-user rate is the line that grows. ## Is it worth it At the entry point the price is modest for a first product: free to start, then $25 a month with a compute credit that covers one small instance. The cost to watch is auth, since the rate per extra monthly active user is the biggest line in the growing-app example above. The free plan pauses a project after a week of inactivity, so use it for building and testing and move to Pro before real customers depend on it. ## Supabase and a card-backed trial Supabase offers a free plan rather than a timed trial, so there is no card-backed step to compare. What matters for a seller is the product you build on top of it: a sign-up flow that stores users in a database like this one and a billing step that runs on Stripe. [TrialValid](https://trialvalid.com/product.md) covers the billing step. It places a hold on the buyer's card at sign-up and starts the trial only when the hold succeeds, in your own Stripe account. Your database choice and your trial design are independent decisions. For the infrastructure side of margin, try the [gross margin calculator](https://trialvalid.com/gross-margin-calculator.md). ## Sourced facts | Fact | Read on | Vendor page | | --- | --- | --- | | Free is $0 a month, with 50,000 monthly active users and 500 MB of database per project | 19 Oct 2026 | [Supabase pricing](https://supabase.com/pricing) | | Free projects pause after 1 week of inactivity, with a limit of 2 active projects | 19 Oct 2026 | [Supabase pricing](https://supabase.com/pricing) | | Pro starts at $25 a month and includes 100,000 monthly active users, then $0.00325 per user | 19 Oct 2026 | [Supabase pricing](https://supabase.com/pricing) | | Paid plans include $10 a month of compute credit, enough for one Micro instance | 19 Oct 2026 | [Supabase pricing](https://supabase.com/pricing) | | Compute sizes run from Micro at $10 a month, billed hourly | 19 Oct 2026 | [Supabase pricing](https://supabase.com/pricing) | | Team starts at $599 a month | 19 Oct 2026 | [Supabase pricing](https://supabase.com/pricing) | | The Pro plan has a spend cap on by default | 19 Oct 2026 | [Supabase pricing](https://supabase.com/pricing) | | The company is fully remote and describes an open source community | 19 Oct 2026 | [Supabase company page](https://supabase.com/company) | ## Questions ### Is Supabase free? There is a free plan with 50,000 monthly active users, a 500 MB database and 1 GB of storage. It allows 2 active projects and pauses a project after a week without activity. ### What does Supabase Pro cost? It starts at $25 a month for the first project, and paid plans include a $10 monthly compute credit. Usage past the included users, disk, egress and storage is billed at the listed rates. ### Can I cap my spending on Supabase? The pricing page says the Pro plan has a spend cap turned on by default. You can switch it off to pay for resources beyond the included quota. > Spotted a figure that has changed? Email hello@meralume.com with the page link and we will update this review. ## Related - [TrialValid blog: trial guides and tool reviews](https://trialvalid.com/blog.md) - [TrialValid compared with billing and growth tools](https://trialvalid.com/comparison.md) - [Gross margin calculator](https://trialvalid.com/gross-margin-calculator.md) - [How card-backed free trials work](https://trialvalid.com/product.md)