11 tools you can use instead of Supabase, ranked by live GitHub stars and npm downloads. Redis, MongoDB Atlas and Firebase are the most used. Stats updated 5 hours ago.
Neon is the closest alternative if you only need Postgres: it is serverless, with autoscaling and instant branching. Appwrite and PocketBase are the open source backend platforms. Firebase and Convex are hosted backends that are not open source.
Supabase is an open source backend platform, made by Supabase Inc., that gives each project a dedicated Postgres database plus authentication, auto-generated APIs, realtime subscriptions, file storage and edge functions. It has a free plan with 2 active projects and a 500 MB database, and paid plans start at $25 a month for Pro. The code is Apache-2.0 licensed and can be self-hosted.
It is a weaker choice for:
Most used first.
In-memory data store used as a cache, database and message broker, available self-hosted or as Redis Cloud.
MongoDB's fully managed cloud database service, with a free tier and usage-based paid tiers.
Google's backend-as-a-service platform for mobile and web apps: database, auth, hosting and functions.
Serverless Postgres platform with autoscaling and instant branching, owned by Databricks.
Open source backend in a single executable file, with a database, auth and storage built in.
Serverless data platform with Redis, Vector, QStash, Workflow, Box and Blob, billed per request.
Distributed SQLite database platform built on libSQL, with databases deployable close to users.
Open source backend platform bundling database, auth, storage, functions and messaging.
Distributed SQL database from Cockroach Labs, sold as a cloud service or licensed to self-host.
Reactive backend platform with a TypeScript database, server functions and real-time sync built in.
Managed database platform built on Vitess, now offering both MySQL and Postgres.
| Tool | Pricing | Free plan | Paid from | Open source | GitHub stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Freemium | Yes: 2 active projects, 500 MB database, 50,000 monthly active users, 1 GB file storage. Projects pause after 1 week of inactivity. | $25 a month (Pro), plus usage above the included limits | Yes, Apache-2.0 | 114k |
| Redis | Freemium | Yes: Redis Cloud's free tier includes up to 30 MB of storage on a shared deployment | about $0.007 an hour, with a $5 a month minimum, for the Essentials plan | No | 77.1k |
| MongoDB Atlas | Freemium | Yes: the M0 tier, free forever, with 512 MB storage, shared RAM and vCPU | about $0.011 an hour (up to $30 a month) for the Flex tier, or $0.08 an hour for the smallest Dedicated (M10) tier | No | 28.7k |
| Firebase | Freemium | Yes: the Spark plan, with no-cost usage limits and no payment method required | Blaze plan is pay-as-you-go on top of the same free limits, billed through Google Cloud | No | 5.2k |
| Neon | Freemium | Yes: 0.5 GB storage and 100 compute hours a month per project, no credit card required | Not listed | Yes, Apache-2.0 (core storage engine) | 23.3k |
| Pocketbase | Open source | Yes, PocketBase is free and self-hosted; there is no paid managed version | Not listed | Yes, MIT | 61.6k |
| Upstash | Pay as you go | Yes. Redis free tier: 256 MB data, 500,000 commands a month, 10 GB bandwidth. | Redis pay as you go at $0.20 per 100,000 commands; fixed plans from $10 a month | No | None |
| Turso | Freemium | Yes: 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500 million rows read and 10 million rows written a month | $4.99 a month for the Developer plan | No | 17.3k |
| Appwrite | Freemium | Yes: 75,000 monthly requests, bandwidth and storage included, unlimited projects | $25 a month per project for the Pro plan | Yes, BSD-3-Clause | 57.8k |
| CockroachDB | Pay as you go | Cloud: 30-day trial with $400 in credit. Self-hosted: Enterprise Free for individuals and businesses under $10M in annual revenue. | $0.092 per vCPU-hour on Standard (AWS us-east-1) | No | 32.6k |
| Convex | Freemium | Yes: 25 million function calls, 50 GB database storage, 100 GB file storage and 50 GB data egress a month included | $25 a developer a month for the Professional plan | No | 12.8k |
| PlanetScale | Pay as you go | No, there is no free plan; the Base plan is pay-as-you-go with no monthly minimum contract | $5 a month for a single-node Postgres instance | No | 1.2k |
Pricing facts come from each tool's official pricing page, with the checked date on the tool's own page.
By GitHub stars, Redis is the most used alternative to Supabase listed on ScratchDB, with 77.1k stars.
Neon, Pocketbase and Appwrite are open source.
Redis, MongoDB Atlas, Firebase, Neon, Pocketbase, Upstash, Turso, Appwrite and Convex have a free plan. The table on this page shows what each one includes.
