Supabase

What is Supabase?

Dedicated Postgres per project, plus sign-in, file buckets, edge functions and realtime.

Who is Supabase best for?

Supabase is best for app developers who want a Postgres backend with sign-in, storage and realtime without servers.

• Apps that need sign-in out of the box

  Auth, file storage, edge functions and realtime sit next to the database, and the Free plan covers 50,000 monthly active users.

• AI apps with embeddings

  Supabase Vector uses pgvector to store, index and query embeddings in your project's Postgres database.

• Teams that may leave the cloud later

  Each project is a full Postgres database, and the same stack runs on your own server with Docker Compose.

• Background jobs

  The Cron and Queues modules schedule recurring jobs and deliver messages with guaranteed delivery.

How much does Supabase cost?

Supabase is free to self-host under Apache 2.0, its cloud Free plan costs $0 for up to 2 active projects, and paid cloud plans start at $25 a month for Pro.

Enterprise is custom priced with uptime SLAs and 24/7 support. On paid plans, extra projects start at $10 a month, and compute is billed hourly from $10 a month for a Micro instance, which the included credits cover. Full pricing on supabase.com. We checked these prices on 8 Nov 2026.

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Is Supabase open source?

Yes. Supabase's code is public under the Apache 2.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.

Host it on a serverHostinger, DigitalOcean, Railway, Elestio and Vultr set it up on a server for you with a one-click install.

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How do I connect Supabase to my AI agent?

Supabase MCP is Supabase's official MCP server. Add it to your agent once, then ask it to manage Supabase projects, tables and SQL from your editor.

Gives your coding agent your Supabase projects, so it can read table schemas, run SQL, apply migrations and check logs for the database behind your app.

Claude CodeCursorCodexGitHub Copilot

Terminal

$ claude mcp add --transport http supabase https://mcp.supabase.com/mcp

Claude Code connects to Supabase over the web.

Run /mcp and sign in to Supabase in the browser.

Then ask your agent

• List the tables in my production project
• Add a created_at column to the posts table
• Show API errors from the last hour

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On the web

Sign-in

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What are the best Supabase alternatives?

Supabase is an open source alternative to Xano, Cloudflare, Convex and 3 more.

XanoFree

Visual and AI-assisted backend builder with a Postgres database, logic and APIs for any front end.

CloudflareFree

Speed up and protect websites, run serverless code and secure staff access on one global network.

ConvexFree

TypeScript backend with real-time sync and built-in AI workflows.

Google FirebaseFree

Google's managed backend: database, auth, hosting and AI.

NeonFree

Postgres service that branches like code and scales to zero, with auth and file storage alongside.

PlanetScalePaid

Database clusters for Postgres and Vitess MySQL with branching, query insights and sharding at scale.

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