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[H1] The world’s fastest and most scalable cloud databases
PlanetScale brings you the fastest databases available in the cloud. Both our Postgres and Vitess databases deliver exceptional speed and reliability, with Vitess adding ultra scalability through horizontal sharding.Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS, bringing data center performance to the cloud. We offer a range of deployment options to cover all of your security and compliance requirements — including bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed.PlanetScale powers Tier 0 databases at:Read case studyRead case studyRead case studyRead blog postRead case studyRead case studyRead blog postWe chose PlanetScale to host our most demanding Vitess and Postgres workloads, doing millions of queries per second on hundreds of terabytes of data.– Sualeh Asif - Chief Product Officer @Anysphere (Cursor)VitessPostgresNekiVitess allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally through explicit sharding — enabling a shared nothing architecture distributing data across thousands of nodes, all routed through a single database connection.Vitess was developed at YouTube by the founders of PlanetScale to scale their main MySQL database to petabytes of data on 70,000 nodes across 20 data centers. Now maintained and managed by PlanetScale, Vitess powers the databases of some of the web's largest properties: Slack, HubSpot, Blizzard, Etsy, GitHub, Block, Bloomberg, Yelp, and more.
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Our migration to Vitess is more than just a technological upgrade; it's a strategic move to future-proof our database architecture for the next decade and beyond.– Ryan Sherlock @IntercomPlanetScale Postgres starts at $5 per month and gives you a fully managed PostgreSQL cluster built for performance and reliability, offering first-class tooling without sacrificing developer experience. Available in AWS and GCP. High availability clusters deliver automatic failover across three availability zones.PlanetScale Metal starts at $50 per month for NVMe-backed performance with unlimited IOPS.PlanetScale Metal is benchmarked as the fastest Postgres in the cloudHigh availability: 1 primary and 2 replicas across three AZs with automated failover.Connection pooling with PgBouncer (port 6432) and buffered failovers to minimize impact.Branch-per-environment; each branch runs on its own dedicated cluster, priced prorated to the millisecond.Scale reads with replicas, streamline schema work with branching, and protect data with automated backups.Database Traffic Control™ lets you enforce flexible budgets on your Postgres query traffic to protect your database from runaway queries and unexpected load spikes.Get started with the Postgres quickstart or read the Postgres documentation.Neki is our next-generation Postgres sharding architecture inspired by everything we have learned building Vitess: a fresh design from first principles to bring massive scale and reliability to PostgreSQL workloads. Follow progress on our blog and join the waitlist.Built for large scale Postgres workloads.Designed for predictable performance and fault tolerance at scale.Learn more in Announcing Neki and the PlanetScale for Postgres announcement.Interested in early access? Visit neki.dev.
[H2] Performance
PlanetScale Metal allows you to run your database on the fastest servers available in the cloud. Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS and drastically lower latencies compared to other cloud database providers like Amazon Aurora and GCP Cloud SQL.
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The graph above displays the p50, p95, and p99 change after moving a database to Metal. See more benchmarks on our Benchmarking page.We are very happy with our decision to migrate to PlanetScale Metal which enabled us to achieve the rare outcome of improvements in performance, cost, and reliability – a win for our customers and our business.– Aaron Young @ Cash App
[H2] Uptime
Ensuring your database is always running and your data is always safe is our number one priority. Nothing comes before uptime and reliability. Our SLA commitment is 99.999% for multi-region deployments and 99.99% for single-region deployments.PlanetScale’s platform far exceeds the reliability of database services like Amazon Aurora/RDS and Google Cloud SQL with superior architecture and by making all database operations online.Deploy schema changes fully onlineRevertable schema changes (with zero data loss)Directing traffic to new read-only replicasOnline MySQL and Vitess version updatesOnline cluster resizing and reshardingYou can check out our track record on our status page.We knew how deeply the PlanetScale team understands database services, and they were literally the only team we trusted enough to consider leaving behind Aurora.– Jamie Turner, Founder & CEO @ Convex
[H2] Cost
At PlanetScale we believe cost is a unit of scale. Our product is less expensive than RDS MySQL and Aurora for around 85% of the workloads that customers have migrated to Metal. Getting a custom quote is easy: reach out to us. No long sales process or annoying pitches — you can probably tell from our website that the tech speaks for itself.No matter the size of your workload, PlanetScale Metal has the best price to performance ratio of any database service.Bring your own cloud with PlanetScale ManagedPurchase through the AWS Marketplace or the GCP Marketplace Customers running Metal on PlanetScale Managed can realize additional savings through Reserved Instances or Savings Plans — discounts otherwise not available on traditional EBS volumes.
[H2] Security
PlanetScale is trusted by some of the world’s largest brands. Our core infrastructure was built to comply with high standards of security, compliance, and privacy.SOC 1 Type 2 & SOC 2 Type 2+ HIPAA compliancePCI DSS 4.0 compliance as a Level 1 Service ProviderHIPAA Business Associate Agreements available on all plansLearn more about our security and compliance practices in the security documentation.We have very strict regulatory requirements that can feel painful to the average engineer, however PlanetScale was a strong partner in grinding through our asks, leaving us in a place where everyone was happy.– Aaron Young @Cash AppVisit our Trust Center to request the latest copy of our SOC reports, PCI DSS Attestation of Compliance, and more.
[H2] Features
PlanetScale is an opinionated database platform supporting both Vitess/MySQL and Postgres, built by the infrastructure teams behind Facebook, GitHub, Twitter, Slack, YouTube, and more. All of our features combine to provide an end-to-end database management platform that prevents human error and provides full insight into query performance with actionable recommendations to make your database faster.Branching and deploy requests for zero downtime schema changes that your team can review.Store your vector data alongside your application’s relational data with PlanetScale vector support for both MySQL and Postgres.Roll back bad schema changes with no downtime and no data loss.Full database observability with Insights to give you a detailed overview of cluster health.Automate the horizontal scaling of your database with our explicit sharding workflows.Utilize our Global Edge Network to automatically route query traffic to local nodes.Integrations with Fivetran, Airbyte, Hightouch, Datadog, Vantage, Debezium, and more.All of this is backed by our best-in-class support.Databases are hard. We would rather PlanetScale manage them. We wanted the support PlanetScale offers because they are the experts in the field. We’ve seen this come to fruition in our relationship.– Chris Karper @ MyFitnessPal

[H1] Contact us
Talk to an expertChat with us for more information about pricing, enterprise options, sizing, migration support, and more.Open a support ticketAre you a current customer? Open a support ticket to troubleshoot a technical issue or payment problem.
[H2] Other ways to get in touch
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[H2] Documentation Index
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://planetscale.com/docs/llms.txtUse this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.We offer both Vitess and PostgreSQL clusters, powered by locally-attached NVMe drives that deliver unlimited IOPS and ultra-low latency.
[H2] Vitess documentation
PlanetScale for Vitess offers fully-managed Vitess clusters with unlimited scalability. Features include sharding, branching, deploy requests, query insights, and more.
[H2] Postgres documentation
PlanetScale Postgres is a fully-managed PostgreSQL-compatible database. Features include high availability, query insights, branching, and more.
All clusters are deployed with one primary and a minimum of 2 replicas across 3 availability zones for high availability. Automated failovers, managed version upgrades, and a team of database experts holding the pager means you can spend your time shipping instead of worrying about your database.
For large-scale applications that are hitting the limits of vertical scale, PlanetScale’s Vitess is a great option. You get the power of horizontal sharding, built-in connection pooling, and non-blocking schema changes so you’ll never have to worry about outgrowing your database solution.
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[H2] ​PlanetScale plans
[H2] PlanetScale plans
What’s the difference between the Base plan and Enterprise?
[H2] Deployment options
PlanetScale offers multi-tenant and single-tenant deployment options.
[H2] Bring your own cloud
Learn about our Enterprise offering — PlanetScale Managed.
[H2] ​Need help?
Get help from the PlanetScale Support team, or join our Discord community to see how others are using PlanetScale.What is PlanetScale?Next⌘IResponses are generated using AI and may contain mistakes.

[H1] Pricing
AI agents can view our pricing on the pricing.md page.Estimated monthly total:$15Get started
[H3] Database expertise
Augment your team with our database experts, including the majority of the core Vitess maintainers
[H3] Migration assistance
Hands-on, proactive assistance in migrating your workload with no downtime
[H3] Slack-based support
Private shared Slack channel for fast communication
[H3] More deployment options
Multi-tenant, single-tenant, or in your own AWS / GCP account
[H3] Business support included
Enhanced response times from support engineers
[H3] Architecture consultation
Work with our Solutions team to optimize your database design
[H3] Custom pricing
AWS/GCP Marketplace purchase options
[H3] Additional regions
Deploy in any AWS or GCP region with at least 3 availability zones
[H2] Base Plan
The Base plan is what you get when you sign up at PlanetScale. No contract or sales interaction required. Pricing is resource-based, so you can upsize and downsize your instances as needed.
[H3] PlanetScale Postgres
Single node — Starting at $5/month for development and low-traffic workloadsMetal — Starting at $50/month with local NVMe storage for high-performance needsHigh Availability — 1 primary + 2 replicas across 3 availability zones
[H3] Vitess
MySQL-compatible databases with horizontal sharding. Pricing based on cluster size, VTGate configuration, and storage. Metal also available.
[H3] Pricing factors
Pay as you go — Pay month to month based on the price in the calculator above.The main factors that determine your price are:Instance and VTGate sizesStorage amount — First 10 GB included, and then $0.50 per GB per instance. We require a minimum of 3 instances for production branches to ensure high availability. Storage costs are included for Metal instances.Add-ons — Additional development branch hours, SSO, upgraded supportFor the full list of features and more information, see our plans documentation.
[H2] Enterprise
Our Enterprise plan comes with all of the same platform features you get with the Base plan, but also includes upgraded levels of support and additional deployment options:Bring your own cloud — For enterprise companies or those with strict compliance policies that require your data to remain in your own cloud, we also offer PlanetScale Managed. This allows us to deploy PlanetScale into an AWS or GCP account that you own and we manage.Upgraded support — All Enterprise plans come with Business support and the option to upgrade to Enterprise support. The Enterprise support option is only available on Enterprise plans and gives you access to our team’s database architecture expertise through a shared Slack channel and bi-weekly meetings. Additionally, 15 minute response time for P1 tickets.
[H3] PlanetScale Managed pricing model
If you choose to deploy PlanetScale in your own AWS or GCP account, the required infrastructure is spun up in your account, and you are billed by your cloud provider for those infrastructure costs.This allows you to take advantage of the PlanetScale platform (branching, deploy requests, query monitoring, etc) in your own private environment.On top of the infrastructure fees that you pay directly to your cloud provider, you will pay a percentage of that cost to PlanetScale for the use of PlanetScale, infrastructure management, migration assistance, and ongoing support.For companies with existing AWS or GCP agreements, this option sometimes ends up less expensive than running on PlanetScale’s infrastructure, as you can take advantage of your AWS or GCP discounts for these infrastructure costs.
[H3] When do I need Enterprise?
If you need any of the following, Enterprise may be the best solution for you:Enterprise support — Shared Slack channel with our team and bi-weekly meetings where you can discuss database performance, optimizations, and more.You need hands-on evaluation and migration assistanceYou need your database deployed in a single-tenant environmentYou need a PCI DSS certified service providerYou need to keep your data in your own AWS or GCP accountAny other customizations — Our Enterprise plan offers a lot of flexibility, so if you have a requirement that’s not listed here, it’s best to reach out and we can see how we can help.