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Convex vs PlanetScale

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Convex compared with PlanetScale
DetailConvexPlanetScale
What it doesAll gas, no breakages The world's fastest and most scalable cloud databases
StageGrowing Established
FoundedNot given 2018
Based inUS Not given
Pricing modelNot given subscription
PricingFree & Starter plan with pay-as-you-go pricing. Professional plan at $25 per developer per month. Business & Enterprise plan with $2,500 monthly minimum. Free plan includes 0.5 GB database storage, 1 GB file storage, 1M function calls. Professional plan includes 50 GB database storage, 100 GB file s PlanetScale Postgres starts at $5/month for single node development workloads. PlanetScale Metal starts at $50/month for high-performance NVMe-backed databases. Enterprise plans available with custom pricing. Pricing is based on compute instances, topology (shards/replicas), storage, and usage.
Key features
  • File storage
  • Horizontal sharding for massive scale across thousands of nodes
  • Branching and schema/data isolation workflows for safe development
  • Built-in connection pooling and resilient connection behavior
  • High availability with automated failover across three availability zones
  • Query Insights for detailed database observability and monitoring
  • Multi-region support for globally distributed workloads
  • Automated and custom backups
  • Database Traffic Control to enforce query budgets and prevent runaway queries
What makes it different
  • ACID transactions preventing concurrent write corruption
  • End-to-end type safety in TypeScript
  • Automatic scaling that handles viral growth
  • Built-in real-time sync across all data
  • Zero glue code architecture
  • Highest SLA commitment at 99.999% for multi-region deployments
  • NVMe-backed PlanetScale Metal delivers fastest database performance in cloud with unlimited IOPS
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)79 no change since last check79 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)3452
Citation Flow (Majestic)5452
Referring domains (Majestic)42357764

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