Alternatives to
9 Best Supabase Alternatives in 2026
The best Supabase alternatives depend on whether you prioritize cost, control, or a different workflow.
- Reviewed
- Sep 2026
- Open source
- 5
- Self-hosted
- 5
What you are leaving
Supabase at a glance
- Pricing model
- Free tier; Pro from $25/mo, Team from $599/mo; Enterprise custom
- Deployment
- Supabase Cloud or self-hosted on your own infrastructure
- Licensing
- Open source with a self-hosted edition alongside commercial cloud plans
- Free tier
- Unlimited API requests, 50,000 MAU, 500MB database, 5GB egress and 1GB file storage
- Free limits
- Free projects pause after 1 week of inactivity and you can have at most 2 active projects
- Database
- Postgres with auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs
- Services
- Auth, storage, realtime, edge functions and a dashboard in one platform
- Compliance
- SOC2 and ISO 27001 on Team; HIPAA available as a paid add-on
- Main gripe
- Free projects pause after a week of inactivity, and Pro compute is billed on top of the $25 base
- Best for
- Developers who want a Postgres backend with auth, storage, realtime and APIs without assembling the pieces themselves
Compare at a glance
Supabase alternatives compared
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| # | Product | Overlap | Substitutability | Free? | Starting price | Self-host | Open source | Migration | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Firebase | Managed backend with auth, database, storage and functions | Partial replacement | Yes | — | No | No | Hard | |
| 02 | Appwrite | Backend platform with auth, database, storage and functions | Mostly replaces | Yes | $10/mo | Yes | Yes | Hard | |
| 03 | PocketBase | Backend with auth, database, file storage and realtime | Narrow overlap | Yes | — | Yes | Yes | Hard | |
| 04 | Nhost | Postgres backend with auth, storage, functions and GraphQL APIs | Mostly replaces | Yes | $25/mo | Yes | Yes | Hard | |
| 05 | Directus | Data layer over Postgres with REST and GraphQL APIs | Partial replacement | Yes | $499/mo | Yes | Yes | Moderate | |
| 06 | Strapi | Data layer with REST and GraphQL APIs and an admin | Partial replacement | Yes | $45/mo | Yes | Yes | Hard | |
| 07 | Neon | Managed Postgres database | Narrow overlap | Yes | $19/mo | No | No | Easy | |
| 08 | PlanetScale | Managed relational database | Narrow overlap | Yes | — | No | No | Hard | |
| 09 | Railway | Hosting Postgres and application services | Narrow overlap | No | $5/mo | No | No | Hard |
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Frequently asked
Supabase alternatives FAQ
- Is Supabase free?
- Yes. Supabase has a free plan with unlimited API requests, 50,000 monthly active users, a 500MB database, 5GB egress, 1GB file storage and community support. There are two limitations: free projects are paused after one week of inactivity, and you can have a maximum of two active projects. Supabase is also open source, so you can self-host it at no licence cost.
- How much does Supabase cost?
- Pro starts at $25 per month with the first project included and additional projects from $10 per month. It raises limits to 100,000 monthly active users, 8GB disk per project, 250GB egress and 100GB file storage, and adds daily backups with 7-day retention and email support. Team starts at $599 per month and adds SOC2 and ISO 27001 compliance, SSO, HIPAA as a paid add-on and priority support. Enterprise is custom.
- What is the best alternative to Supabase?
- Firebase is the closest managed alternative, with a comparable free tier and Google-scale infrastructure, but it uses a NoSQL document store rather than Postgres. Appwrite is the strongest open source alternative with a free self-hosted edition covering auth, databases, storage and functions. PocketBase is the lightest option, a single-file backend for small projects. Nhost is built around GraphQL and Postgres. Neon and PlanetScale are managed database platforms rather than full backends.
- Can I self-host Supabase?
- Yes. Supabase is open source and publishes self-hosting instructions, so you can run the whole stack on your own infrastructure. That includes Postgres, auth, storage, realtime and the auto-generated APIs. Self-hosting means you handle deployment, upgrades, backups and scaling yourself, and you lose the managed features like daily backups, log retention and the Supabase dashboard's team controls.
- How does Supabase compare to Firebase?
- The main difference is the database. Supabase is built on Postgres, a relational SQL database, while Firebase uses Firestore, a NoSQL document store. Supabase also generates REST and GraphQL APIs automatically from your schema and is open source with a self-hosted option, while Firebase is proprietary and cloud-only. Both have comparable free tiers and both scale to large workloads on paid plans.
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