Supabase pricing (2026): is Supabase free, and what does Pro really cost?
updated ยท prices checked on vendor pages
quick answer: Supabase has a Free plan at $0 (500 MB database, 50,000 monthly active users, 2 active projects, paused after a week of inactivity). Pro is from $25/mo, Team from $599/mo, Enterprise is custom. the catch on paid plans: compute is billed per project, and the plan's $10 a month of compute credit covers one Micro instance. so one Pro project is $25, two are $35.
Supabase is #1 of 5 on our backend, database & deploy board (9.0/10), and it's our default backend for ai apps for one reason: Postgres, auth, storage and pgvector in one box, so the app your coding agent just wrote has somewhere to live without you gluing four services together. the price is the second question, not the first.
the plans
as of oct 30, 2026, from Supabase's pricing page:
| plan | price | what you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 500 MB database, 50,000 MAU, 5 GB egress, 1 GB file storage, 500,000 edge function invocations, community support. 2 active projects, paused after 1 week idle |
| Pro | from $25/mo | 8 GB disk per project, 100,000 MAU, 250 GB egress, 100 GB file storage, 2 million edge function invocations, daily backups kept 7 days, email support, $10/mo compute credit, never paused |
| Team | from $599/mo | everything in Pro, plus SOC2 and ISO 27001, SSO for the dashboard, read-only and project-scoped roles, backups kept 14 days, 28-day log retention, priority support with SLAs, HIPAA as a paid add-on |
| Enterprise | custom | uptime SLAs, AWS PrivateLink, 24/7 support, a technical account manager |
every plan has unlimited API requests, unlimited team members and unlimited total users. the MAU number is monthly active users, not sign-ups.
is Supabase free?
yes, properly free for side projects: a real Postgres database, auth, storage, realtime and edge functions, no card needed to start. the limits that actually bite a dev:
- 2 active projects. you can keep as many paused projects as you like and wake them when needed.
- paused after 1 week of inactivity. fine for a demo, rubbish for anything people rely on. paid projects are never paused.
- 500 MB of database and 1 GB of file storage. pgvector embeddings eat that faster than you'd think.
- no automatic backups on Free. if it matters, that alone is the reason to pay.
- 50 MB max file upload, against 500 GB on Pro.
the Free plan also covers a dev and a production project, as Supabase itself suggests. and if you'd rather not pay at all, Supabase says you can self-host it with Docker or the Supabase CLI.
what Supabase Pro really costs
the $25 is the plan. compute is on top, per project, billed hourly:
- your first Micro instance is covered. Pro and Team include $10 a month of compute credit, which is exactly one Micro instance (shared CPU, 1 GB RAM).
- every extra project adds its own compute. Supabase's own sum: $25 + $10 + $10 - $10 credit = $35 a month for two projects on a Micro instance each.
- bigger instances cost more: the next size up is $15 a month (2 GB RAM), then $60 (4 GB), $110 (dedicated 2 vCPUs, 8 GB), $210 (4 vCPUs, 16 GB), up to $3,730 a month for 64 vCPUs and 256 GB.
- usage past the quota: $0.00325 per MAU over 100,000, $0.125 per GB of disk over 8 GB, $0.09 per GB of egress over 250 GB, $0.0213 per GB of storage over 100 GB, $2 per million edge function invocations over 2 million.
- the add-ons people forget: custom domain $10 a month per project, point-in-time recovery $100 a month per 7 days of retention, database branching $0.01344 per branch per hour, phone MFA $75 a month for the first project, log drains $60 per drain a month.
the spend cap is on by default on Pro. hit a quota and you're capped rather than billed. turn it off in the dashboard and you pay as you grow. the Pro fee is charged up front each month, and extra usage is billed at the end of the month.
when to pay for Pro
- a side project or a prototype: stay on Free. just remember it naps after a week.
- anything with real users: go Pro. no pausing, daily backups, email support and a spend cap that stops surprises.
- several live apps: still Pro, but budget about $10 a month for each extra project on a Micro instance.
- you need SOC2, SSO for the dashboard or HIPAA: Team at $599, and not a moment before someone asks for those.
Supabase vs the other backends on our board
- serverless Postgres that scales to zero: Neon is #4 (8.0/10), with per-PR database branches. see Neon vs Supabase
- a realtime TypeScript backend, not Postgres: Convex is #5 (7.5/10). see Convex vs Supabase
- where to deploy the app itself: Vercel (#2) for Next.js front ends, Railway (#3) for long-running backends and agents. see Vercel vs Railway
the rest of the field
the table: the rest of the field
| rank | tool | best for | free tier | paid from | numptr score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Supabase | full-stack ai apps needing auth and vectors | 500 MB DB, 50K MAU; pauses after 1 week inactive | Pro from $25/mo | 9.0/10 |
| #4 | Neon | spiky workloads, per-PR database branches | 100 projects, 100 CU-hours per project, no credit card | Launch: usage-based, $0.106/CU-hour + $0.35/GB-month | 8.0/10 |
| #5 | Convex | TypeScript devs wanting realtime sync | free & Starter: $0 then pay as you go | Professional $25/developer/mo | 7.5/10 |
faq
is Supabase free to use?
yes. the Free plan is $0 with a 500 MB database, 50,000 monthly active users, 1 GB of file storage and 2 active projects. free projects are paused after a week of inactivity.
how much is Supabase Pro?
from $25 a month per organisation. it includes $10 a month of compute credit, which covers one Micro instance. each extra project adds its own compute cost, so two projects, each on a Micro instance, come to $35.
does Supabase charge per project?
the plan is per organisation, but compute is per project. each project runs its own instance, and only the first Micro instance is covered by the included credit.
can i cap my Supabase bill?
yes. the spend cap is on by default on Pro, so you're capped at the plan's quotas until you switch it off.
why was my Supabase project paused?
free projects pause after 1 week of inactivity. you can unpause them, and projects on paid plans are never paused.
tools in this guide
sources
checked 2026-10-30
- Supabase pricing (Free $0, Pro from $25/mo, Team from $599/mo, Enterprise custom, plan quotas and overage rates, $10 compute credit, compute sizes and prices, the $35 two-project example, add-on prices, 2 active free projects and the 1-week pause, spend cap on by default, billing timing, self-hosting with Docker or the CLI): https://supabase.com/pricing
- ranks, scores, verdicts and plans: numptr data/tools.json (backend, database & deploy board)