Is PlanetScale free for database?

No free plan for database; the cheapest plan is $5.00/month.

How much does PlanetScale cost for database?

No free tier: Postgres starts at $5 a month for a single-node PS-5 or $15 for a three-node HA cluster, with storage and egress beyond the included amounts billed per GB. At list prices: database size 1 GB, data transfer 10 GB: $5.00/month (Postgres PS-5 (single node)); database size 8 GB, data transfer 50 GB: $7.40/month (Postgres PS-5 (single node)); database size 100 GB, data transfer 500 GB: $46/month (Postgres PS-5 (single node)).

PlanetScale pricing

How PlanetScale charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.

How it charges

Checked 2026-10-03 on planetscale.com ↗ · USD, list prices

In short

No free tier: Postgres starts at $5 a month for a single-node PS-5 or $15 for a three-node HA cluster, with storage and egress beyond the included amounts billed per GB.

Free plan: No
Cheapest paid plan: $5.00/mo
Side project: $5.00/mo Postgres PS-5 (single node)
Growing: $7.40/mo Postgres PS-5 (single node)
Scaling: $46/mo Postgres PS-5 (single node)

What the model leaves out

AWS us-east-1 prices. PS-5 is 1/16 vCPU and 512 MiB RAM; bigger sizes (PS-10 $10 single / $30 HA on arm64, and up) cost more. Each cluster includes the first 10 GB of network-attached storage and production HA branches include 100 GB/month egress, a single-node PS-5 only 10 GB; extra storage is $0.125/GB and egress $0.06/GB (from PlanetScale's published storage and egress rate endpoints for us-east). Compute hours beyond 730 are a second cluster at the same monthly rate prorated per hour. Backups beyond the included amount and Vitess (MySQL, from $39 for PS-10) are not modelled. No free tier.

Before you commit

A single-node PS-5 includes only 10 GB of egress a month; production HA branches include 100 GB.
In us-east-1, extra storage is $0.125/GB, egress $0.06/GB, and backup storage beyond the included amount $0.023/GB.
Each branch runs on its own cluster, billed by the millisecond it runs.
Extra replicas don't get the 10 GB included disk; you pay for the full disk on each one.

Plan	Monthly fee	Database size	Compute hours per month	Data transfer per month
Postgres PS-5 (single node)	$5.00/mo	10 GB includedthen $0.125 per GB	730 hours includedthen $0.00685 per hour	10 GB includedthen $0.06 per GB
Postgres PS-5 (HA, 3 nodes)	$15/mo	10 GB includedthen $0.125 per GB	730 hours includedthen $0.02055 per hour	100 GB includedthen $0.06 per GB

What you'd pay

Database size8 GBCompute hours per month730 hoursa small instance, always on ≈ 730Data transfer per month50 GB

Usage only some alternatives charge for

Document or row reads per month10 million readsDocument or row writes per month2 million writes

Postgres PS-5 (single node)$5.00 plan + 40 GB × $0.06 per GB$7.40/mo

The same usage elsewhere

SupabasePro$25+$18

ConvexProfessional$29+$22

FirebaseBlaze (pay as you go)$9.66+$2.26

NeonLaunch$22+$15

TursoDeveloper$5.99saves $1.41

MongoDBAtlas Dedicated M10$58+$51

Cost as you grow

PlanetScale MongoDB Turso Neon Firebase Convex Supabasex: database size (GB), other usage scaled with it; held at 730 hours (compute hours per month) — add more for a bigger app with the sliders above · cheapest usable plan at each point, list prices

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