Best PlanetScale Alternatives
Looking for a PlanetScale alternative? Here are 6 real database tools worth a look, each with an honest take on what it does differently.
A hosted Postgres with auth, storage, and realtime already wired up — the default pick if you don't want to think about infra.
Postgres that branches like Git and scales to zero, so preview environments stop costing you real money.
SQLite pushed to the edge and multiplied by thousands — built for per-tenant databases, not one big cluster.
The managed way to run MongoDB when you actually need documents, not rows, and don't want to run the cluster yourself.
Postgres-compatible distributed SQL that keeps writing when a whole region drops — overkill until it isn't.
Redis and vector storage billed per request instead of per idling server — built for functions that sleep most of the day.