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Best Managed Postgres · head-to-head

Aiven vs Supabase

A sourced, side-by-side comparison for managed postgres. Aiven has the lower entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.

Aiven has the lower entry price — Aiven starts at $0/mo, Supabase at $0/mo. Free tier: Aiven Yes, Supabase Yes. HIPAA: Aiven Yes, Supabase Yes.

As of 2026-09-02 · figures link to their source below STALE

Side by side

Aiven

$0/mo entry
Entry price$0/mo (Free)
Free tierYes
HIPAA (BAA)Yes
SOC 2Yes
GDPRYes
Best forEnterprises needing multi-cloud Postgres with strong compliance (HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2)

Supabase

$0/mo entry
Entry price$0/mo (Free)
Free tierYes
HIPAA (BAA)Yes
SOC 2Yes
GDPRYes
Best forFull-stack web apps wanting Postgres + auth + storage in one platform

Sources — Aiven: aiven.io (verified 2026-09-02) STALE · 2026-06-14 · Supabase: supabase.com (verified 2026-09-02)

Key features

Aiven: Dedicated VMs with no multi-tenancy — full isolation per customer; Deploy across AWS, GCP, Azure in same console; multi-cloud by design; 50+ supported extensions including pgvector, PostGIS, TimescaleDB; HIPAA compliant since 2018; ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 (ISAE 3000 Type 2), PCI DSS; VPC peering and PrivateLink support for private network connectivity

Supabase: Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs from Postgres schema; Row-level security integrated with built-in auth; Real-time WebSocket subscriptions to database changes; Point-in-time recovery (Pro add-on); 40+ Postgres extensions including pgvector and PostGIS

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