PlanetScale

PlanetScale is a proprietary managed database service that offers Postgres, Vitess-based MySQL and Neki, its sharded MySQL option. It is built on Vitess and Postgres, and it is run only as a managed cloud service, so there is no software to download and no version number to track. Pricing is per instance size on AWS. Postgres high availability starts from 15 dollars a month. Vitess plans range from 39 to 7,199 dollars a month, and the Neki PS-10 size costs 30 dollars a month. A free tier was not shown on the pricing page read. Buyers comparing providers should look at which of the three offerings matches their application, because the engines differ in compatibility and in how they scale. Vitess is designed for sharding MySQL across many servers, while the Postgres offering suits teams that want a managed Postgres without handling replication themselves. Because the service is proprietary and cloud-only, moving away later means exporting data to another provider or to self-managed MySQL or Postgres. Teams should check the current pricing page before budgeting, since plan prices can change.