Supabase
Open-source Firebase alternative with Postgres, auth, storage, realtime, and edge functions.
How the 8.4 was reached
- Quality of output9/10
About 111k stars on an active Apache-2.0 repo; full portable Postgres per project; 1,083 open issues. github.com
- Ease of use8/10
CLI install via npm, docs, and a dashboard with table and SQL editors; free tier pauses after a week of inactivity. supabase.com
- Pricing value8/10
Useful free tier, Pro from $25/month with usage-based overage; open-source code is free. supabase.com
- API and integration quality9/10
Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs, JavaScript SDK, Realtime, Edge Functions, and examples across many frameworks. supabase.com
- Solves the problem it claims to solve8/10
Postgres platform with auth, storage and APIs as claimed; very heavy adoption backs it up. github.com
8.4/10 is the mean of the 5 criteria that apply. Scored on the five-criteria rubric v1, 29 September 2026. How scoring works
Pricing
- 500 MB database
- 1 GB file storage
- 50,000 monthly active users
- 500K edge function invocations
- 200 concurrent Realtime connections
- 2 organizations
- Community support
- 8 GB database
- 100 GB file storage
- 100,000 monthly active users
- 2M edge function invocations
- 500 concurrent Realtime connections
- Unlimited organizations
- Email support
- Daily backups (7-day retention)
- No project pausing
- Everything in Pro
- SOC2 compliance
- HIPAA available (add-on)
- Priority support with SLA
- Daily backups (14-day retention)
- Standardized security questionnaire
- SSO for Supabase dashboard
- 28-day log retention
Key Features
- Full Postgres database with extensions (pgvector, PostGIS)
- Row Level Security for fine-grained access control
- Built-in auth with 20+ social providers
- Realtime subscriptions via WebSockets
- Edge Functions (Deno-based serverless)
- S3-compatible file storage with CDN
- Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs
- Database branching for preview environments
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Full Postgres power with managed convenience
- Generous free tier for prototyping and small apps
- Open-source with self-hosting option
- All-in-one backend: auth, DB, storage, functions, realtime
Cons
- Jump from Pro ($25) to Team ($599) is steep
- Free tier projects pause after 1 week of inactivity
- Edge Functions are Deno-only (not Node.js)
Supabase is the best open-source backend-as-a-service, giving you the full power of Postgres with the developer experience of Firebase. The free tier is perfect for prototyping, and the Pro plan handles production workloads well. The pricing gap to Team is the main friction point for growing startups.
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