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PlanetScale

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Pricing is predominantly usage-based across storage, branches, and backups, with configuration-dependent costs from cluster size and storage type. As a PaaS, the many meters and variable charges per branch and per size make exact forecasting dependent on workload and configuration choices, and some items have undisclosed or custom pricing.

model: gpt-5
0🧾
Pricing clarity
A bit fiddly
0🤖
Agent easiness
Breezy for bots
📐 how these scores work

How we scored it 🧮

Every page starts at 100. Each kind of complexity subtracts points — here's the math.

🧾 Pricing clarity

66
  • Base score+100
  • 9 in-plan configuration choices-8
  • 2 add-ons / extras-3
  • 7 metered dimensions to track-9
  • Pure usage pricing — no flat plan to anchor the bill-14
  • Spans 4 distinct services to navigate-4
  • Plan breadth is reasonable for a 4-service platform+4
  • Total66 / 100

🤖 Agent easiness

100
  • Base score+100
  • Total100 / 100

The pricing tree 🌳

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💳 Usage-based💱 $🪜 2 tiers🧩 2 add-ons

The tiers 🪜

Base
  • Storage included (network-attached storage)10 GB per instance
  • Vitess development branch hours included~1,440 hours per 30-day month (hours_in_current_month * 2)
  • Available cluster sizes22 (per engine)
  • ✦Self-serve fully-managed Vitess (MySQL-compatible) and Postgres databases
  • ✦Two storage options: network-attached storage or Metal
  • ✦Sharding (horizontal and vertical for Vitess; vertical for Postgres)
  • ✦Query insights retention 7 days
  • ✦Availability zones: 3
  • ✦Production branches: 1 included (additional billed at selected cluster size)
  • ✦Development branches included hours (Vitess)
Enterprise
Custom
  • ✦Enhanced support and customizations
  • ✦Deployment options: Single-tenant or PlanetScale Managed (runs in your own AWS/GCP account)
  • ✦Customizable feature limits
  • ✦PCI compliance available (Managed)
  • ✦Dedicated AWS/GCP account options
  • ✦Bring your own cloud (Managed)
  • ✦Billing flexibility incl. AWS Marketplace

Add-ons & extras 🧩

📦
Single Sign-on (SSO) · $199/mo
Add SSO for your organization on the Base plan.
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Business support
Optional upgraded support for Base plan; see Support page for pricing details.

Watch out for 🕵️

  • ⚠️Multiple metered storage dimensions with different rates (NAS per-GB per-instance, HA NAS prod/dev per-GB, Metal per selected NVMe size)
  • ⚠️Metered development branches (Vitess per-hour, Postgres per-branch per-month)
  • ⚠️Additional production branches priced variably based on selected cluster size
  • ⚠️Cluster size selection (22 sizes per engine) affects pricing but specific rates not shown
  • ⚠️Storage type choice (Network-attached vs Metal) changes pricing model with incomplete rates for Metal
  • ⚠️Add-on SSO at $199/mo
  • ⚠️Optional Business support add-on with undisclosed pricing
  • ⚠️Enterprise plan is contact-sales/custom pricing
  • ⚠️User-scheduled backup storage metered per GB per month