Supabase
by Supabase · Hosted Postgres with auth, storage, realtime and edge functions
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Overview
Supabase is a hosted platform that gives each project its own Postgres database. Around it sit authentication with row level security, file storage, realtime sync, edge functions, vector embeddings and instant REST data APIs, managed from a dashboard with table and SQL editors. The code is open source and can be self-hosted.
- Best for
- Developers who want a hosted Postgres database with auth, storage and APIs in one platform
- Pricing
- Free tier, then Pro from $25/month and Team from $599/month, both with usage-based charges on top; Enterprise is quoted on request.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hostedCLI
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Every project gets a dedicated Postgres database
- Auth, storage, realtime, functions and vector in one platform
- Open source, inspectable on GitHub and self-hostable
- Free tier covers 50,000 monthly active users
Trade-offs
- Free projects pause after 1 week idle and are capped at 2 active projects
- SOC2 and ISO 27001 only from the Team plan at $599/month
- Usage charges for egress, storage, MAUs and compute sit on top of the plan fee
- Extra projects add from $10/month each in compute
How Supabase markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Supabase’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Build in a weekend”
- Angle: Speed / time-to-value
- Hero: Illustration
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Supabase’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Supabase pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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