PlanetScale
World's fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess and Postgres databases.
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How the 6.4 was reached
- Quality of output7/10
Independent benchmark shows about 18,000 QPS and consistency against Aurora; Vitess is used by large firms, though that claim is vendor-stated. Source: xata.io
- Ease of use7/10
Sandbox, no contract for the base plan, resizable instances, and docs exist; sharded setups add complexity. Source: planetscale.com
- Pricing value6/10
Postgres from $5/month and Metal from $50/month; no free tier noted, and the benchmarked M-320 tier costs $1,349/month. Source: planetscale.com
- API and integration quality6/10
Listed on AWS and Google Cloud marketplaces with multi-region deployment; docs exist but no API or SDK detail was found. Source: planetscale.com
- Solves the problem it claims to solve6/10
Horizontal scaling and online schema changes are vendor-described; an October 2025 control plane outage is a documented reliability gap. Source: planetscale.com
6.4/10 is the average of the five criterion scores above. The evidence comes from 4 different sources.Scores come from public evidence (the tool's own pages and documentation, and independent reviews); we do not test every tool hands-on. Scored 29 September 2026, on version 1 of our five-criteria scoring method.
Pricing
- 1 database
- 1 billion row reads/month
- 10 million row writes/month
- 5 GB storage
- 10 databases
- 10 billion row reads/month
- 100 million row writes/month
- 50 GB storage
- Horizontal sharding
- Unlimited databases
- Custom limits
- Dedicated support
- SLA guarantees
- Private cloud options
For the full list of what each plan includes, and current prices, see planetscale.com.
Key Features
- Horizontal sharding with Vitess
- Postgres and MySQL support
- Blazing fast NVMe storage
- Database Traffic Control
- Branch-based development workflow
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Exceptional performance with unlimited IOPS
- Battle-tested technology from YouTube/Google
- Seamless horizontal scaling
- Developer-friendly branching model
- Used by major companies like GitHub, Slack
Cons
- Complex pricing structure
- Steep learning curve for Vitess
- Limited to MySQL and Postgres
- Can be expensive at scale
PlanetScale suits teams that need scalable Vitess-based databases with online schema changes and cloud marketplace listings. No free tier was noted, larger tiers cost a lot, and a past control plane outage is a reliability gap.
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