# PlanetScale pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $5/mo (Postgres EBS Non-HA (PS-5, arm64)). Among the 7 managed postgres we track it is #6 cheapest of 7; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** planetscale.com
**Free tier:** No
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** GitHub Actions, Airbyte, Fivetran, AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect, Terraform
**Best for:** High-IOPS production workloads needing bare-metal NVMe Postgres; Enterprises with SOC 2 / HIPAA / PCI DSS compliance requirements; Teams migrating from Vitess/MySQL who also need Postgres on same platform; Regulated industries needing data locality and private networking
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Postgres EBS Non-HA (PS-5, arm64) | $5 | — | custom | Single node, 512 MiB memory. Prices based on AWS us-east-1. No high availability; production use not recommended. | planetscale.com |
| Postgres EBS HA (PS-5, arm64) | $15 | — | custom | 3-node cluster (1 primary + 2 replicas), 512 MiB memory per node. Prices based on AWS us-east-1. Regional prices vary. | planetscale.com |
| Postgres Metal HA (M-10) | $50 | — | custom | 3-node bare-metal cluster, 10 GiB storage included. Prices based on AWS us-east-1. | planetscale.com |

**Key features:** Local NVMe drives for unlimited IOPS — no shared storage bottlenecks; SOC 1 Type 2 + SOC 2 Type 2 + HIPAA alignment + PCI DSS 4.0 Level 1 (Managed tier); Non-blocking schema changes with instant rollback (Git-like branching workflow); Private connectivity via AWS PrivateLink and GCP Private Service Connect; Audit and security logs on all plans.

**Plan limits:** No free tier — smallest plan starts at $5/mo (PS-5 Non-HA, single node, 512 MiB RAM); Bare-metal Metal tier scales up to $94,429/mo for largest SKUs; Storage on NVMe local drives; SKU-fixed per node size.

## Cheaper managed postgres alternatives

- [Supabase](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/managed-postgres/supabase/) — from $0/mo
- [Neon](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/managed-postgres/neon/) — from $0/mo
- [Aiven](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/managed-postgres/aiven/) — from $0/mo
- [Render](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/managed-postgres/render/) — from $0/mo
- [CockroachDB](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/managed-postgres/cockroachdb/) — from $0/mo

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Prices fetched directly from https://planetscale.com/pricing on 2026-06-14. PlanetScale pivoted from a Vitess/MySQL product to also offering native Postgres (EBS and Metal tiers). Pricing is per-SKU and metered — no flat monthly tier exists; the smallest entry point is $5/mo for a PS-5 Non-HA arm64 node. Plans below represent the smallest self-serve entry points per architecture; full SKU range runs to $94,429/mo for large Metal deployments. No HIPAA or annual discount information on the pricing page.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/managed-postgres/planetscale/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, PlanetScale's entry plan was $5/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/managed-postgres/planetscale/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl