7 Best Supabase Alternatives 2026 (Prices Compared)

A Supabase alternative is a hosted backend that gives an app a database, authentication, file storage and server-side functions under one bill, so you can leave Supabase without rebuilding each piece from a different vendor. Teams shop around for three reasons: the per-project compute line that makes a second environment cost real money, the Team-plan jump for SOC 2, or a data model that never needed Postgres in the first place. This page prices seven exits for the same team, five developers with a production and a staging project, so the comparison is a bill rather than a feature list.

Toolradar data: of the 114 low-code backend tools tracked on the Toolradar low-code backend ranking as of October 2026, Supabase is listed as an alternative to 81 other tools, second only to FlowiseAI, and it is the most compared tool in that category over the last 90 days with 602 side-by-side comparisons. That is the crowd this page is written for: people already comparing their way out.

What you are leaving is detailed in the Supabase review and the plan-by-plan Supabase pricing breakdown. If you are moving the other way, from Google, read Firebase alternatives instead, and if there is no live app to migrate, the wider backend-as-a-service ranking is the better start.

Supabase bills the organization, then each project's compute. Pro includes the first project, with additional projects from $10/mo, and paid plans carry compute credits enough for one Micro instance with 1 GB of RAM. The plan includes 100,000 monthly active users, then $0.00325 per MAU, 8 GB of disk per project, then $0.125/GB, and 250 GB of egress, then $0.09/GB. The spend cap is on by default, so a Pro project that crosses its quota pauses instead of billing you, until you switch the cap off.

The compute ladder is where the bill grows. Small, Medium at $60, Large at $110 and XL at $210 a month per project, and every project runs its own dedicated Postgres instance, so production and staging are two compute lines. Supabase's own calculator prices one Pro organization with two Micro projects at $35/mo: plan, two instances, one credit. Free projects pause after a week idle, with at most two active, which is why staging usually forces the paid plan.

The costly extras sit beside the plan. Point-in-time recovery is $100 per month for 7 days of retention per project, branching bills $0.01344 per branch-hour, and log drains are $60 per drain per project. Team, at $599/mo, is where SOC 2, ISO 27001 and dashboard SSO live. A five-person startup that needs a compliance report pays the Team rate before it pays for a single extra gigabyte.

Leaving means rebuilding whichever of those pieces you used. Row-level security policies become Appwrite permissions, Convex functions or Hasura roles. Edge functions become Appwrite functions, Convex actions or Neon functions. A Postgres dump moves to Neon or Nhost without a rewrite, moves to Appwrite's dedicated PostgreSQL tier with a new API layer, and does not move to Convex, Firebase or Turso at all without a data model change. The exit cost is the code that talks to the database, not the data.

How we compared: on October 26, 2026 we read the pricing pages of Supabase and the seven products below, plus Google Cloud's Firestore rate card for Iowa and the PocketBase docs and release list. Each bill in the table is arithmetic on printed prices for the same team, five developers with one production and one staging project, and we say which assumption each one rests on. This site runs no test lab, so nothing here is a benchmark or a timed migration.

The same team costs between one Turso Developer plan and five Convex seats a month on these seven backends, before traffic. Appwrite Pro is one organization fee plus $15/mo for the second project, which lands at $40/mo, our arithmetic. Convex Professional bills every developer, so five seats are $125/mo, and the staging deployment is free inside the plan's 300-deployment limit. Turso Developer, the cheapest paid plan on this page, allows unlimited databases, so staging is a second database at no extra plan fee. On monthly billing the cheapest and the most expensive exits differ by a factor of about 20 for the same five people.

Neon has no base fee at all, so the bill is compute hours and storage. Launch is $0.106 per CU-hour and $0.35 per GB-month, and Neon's own 24/7 small-database example is 190 CU-hours with 5 GB of storage, which comes to $21.89/mo at those rates, our arithmetic. Its intermittent example, 140 CU-hours and 1 GB, is $15.19/mo, so a staging project that scales to zero costs less than a Supabase Micro instance. The catch is the opposite of Supabase's: a database that never idles has a floor of about 182.5 CU-hours a month at the 0.25 CU minimum, and nothing pauses it when spend rises.

Nhost keeps the organization model but changes what the credit buys. Pro is the Supabase Pro rate with compute credits included, 10 GB of database before overage, and unlimited projects and members. Shared compute is a per-core monthly rate, a third of the dedicated $50 per core. The second project adds at least one shared core past the credit, so the pair is $40/mo by our arithmetic, assuming one shared core per project. Nhost will not pause a project that passes a limit, so overage lands on the invoice instead of stopping the app.

Firebase has no plan fee and no seat fee, which looks free until the reads arrive. Blaze bills Firestore at $0.03 per 100,000 document reads in Iowa past 50,000 free reads a day. At 10 million reads a day that is $89.55 for a 30-day month on reads alone, our arithmetic from the Google Cloud rate card. Cloud Functions are not available on Spark, so any webhook forces Blaze, and phone sign-in is billed per SMS. The team size never appears on the invoice; the traffic does.

PocketBase has no invoice. The latest release is v0.40.6, one executable with SQLite, auth, file storage and realtime, and the docs still say it is not recommended for production-critical apps before v1.0.0. You pay for the machine you run it on, and you lose the Postgres features that made Supabase Pro worth paying for: no row-level security policies, no extensions, and a single file that a second app server cannot share. If that trade is acceptable, the self-hosting guide covers the machine.

The headcount question decides between Appwrite and Convex. Appwrite Pro lists unlimited members on one organization fee, so hiring three engineers changes nothing. Convex Professional bills each developer at the Supabase Pro rate, capped at 20 developers before the $2,500 monthly minimum of Business, so the same three hires add $75/mo. Convex buys a reactive database where every query is a live subscription; Appwrite buys a plan that behaves like the one you are leaving. The Supabase vs Convex comparison goes deeper on that trade, and Neon vs Supabase covers the database-only exit.

Price the second project before the first, because that is where the Supabase exit pays or does not. On Supabase Pro the organization fee covers one Micro instance through the compute credit, and the second project adds its own compute line at the Micro rate, so two Micro projects are $35/mo on Supabase's own calculator. Appwrite charges a flat monthly fee per extra project with serverless database compute. Turso and Neon's free tier allow 100 databases or projects, so staging on those two is free until it runs 24/7.

Prices were checked on October 26, 2026 on Supabase pricing, Appwrite pricing, Neon pricing, Convex pricing, Firebase pricing with the Firestore Standard rate card for Iowa, Nhost pricing, Turso pricing and the PocketBase docs. Convex rates are for US East at 1.0x. Turso prints yearly rates with the monthly saving beside them; the monthly figures in the table are that arithmetic.

The scenario rows are our arithmetic for five developers with one production and one staging project, each on the smallest paid compute, and they rest on stated assumptions. Neon uses Neon's own workload examples at Launch rates: 190 CU-hours with 5 GB for production and 140 CU-hours with 1 GB for staging. Nhost assumes one shared vCPU core per project, with the included credit covering the first. Firebase has no fixed component, so its row is the reads-only bill at 10 million reads a day. None of the rows include egress, storage past the allowance, or monthly active users past the plan.

Compliance is the hidden second ladder. Supabase and Nhost both put SOC 2 on a Team plan at the same rate. Convex includes the reports on Professional, so a regulated five-person team pays the five-seat Professional bill there instead of the Team rate plus compute. Appwrite's reports are on Enterprise with no listed price, and Neon puts HIPAA on Scale, which doubles the compute rate. A team buying a report should price the plan that holds it, not the entry plan.

What the entry plan leaves out is also worth a line each. Supabase Pro keeps a 7-day log window and daily backups kept for 7 days, with point-in-time recovery at $100 per 7 days per project. Appwrite Pro keeps 7 days of logs and daily backups with 7 days of retention, and point-in-time recovery on a dedicated database adds 20% of the tier price. Nhost's point-in-time recovery also starts at $100 for 7 days. Convex Professional includes daily backups, and Turso Developer includes 3 days of point-in-time restore. Those recovery lines are where the cheapest sticker stops being cheapest.