Supabase Pricing: What You Really Need to Know 💡

Supabase offers a clean, honest pricing model: start free, scale as you grow, and only pay for what you actually use. Let’s break it down so you can pick the right plan — and avoid nasty surprises.

🆓 Free Tier – Perfect for starting out

• Cost: $0/month per project

• Limits:

  • 500 MB Postgres database

  • 1 GB file storage

  • 5 GB bandwidth

  • 50,000 monthly active users (MAUs)

  • 500,000 Edge Function calls per month

  • 200 concurrent realtime connections

  • Community support

  • Projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity (limit of 2 active free projects)

Great for personal projects, experiments, and testing without spending a penny.

🚀 Pro Tier – Ready for production

• Starting at: $25/month per project (usage-based scaling applies)

• Includes everything in Free, plus:

  • 8 GB database

  • 100 GB file storage

  • 250 GB bandwidth

  • 100,000 MAUs

  • 2 million Edge Function calls

  • Daily backups

  • 7-day log retention

  • Email support

  • No pausing for inactivity

• Overage pricing:

  • $0.125 per additional GB of database

  • $0.021 per additional GB of storage

  • $0.09 per additional GB of bandwidth

  • $0.00325 per extra MAU

  • $2 per million extra Edge Function calls

Includes $10/month in compute credits (enough to run a Micro instance for free).

🏢 Team Tier – For growing teams

• Starting at: $599/month per organization

• Everything in Pro, plus:

  • SOC2 compliance

  • SSO for dashboard

  • Longer backups (14 days) and log retention (28 days)

  • Priority support

  • Role-based access control

Built for startups and teams needing compliance, better access controls, and stronger SLAs.

🌐 Enterprise – Full-scale custom plans

• Custom pricing (contact sales)

• Designed for large-scale and regulated environments:

  • Dedicated support and account manager

  • 24/7 support

  • SLA uptime guarantees

  • Bring-your-own-cloud options

  • Custom security and compliance features

⚙️ Compute Add-ons

Paid plans include $10/month in compute credits (covers one Micro instance). You can scale compute based on demand:

Instances are billed hourly.

💡 Example cost breakdown

Let’s say you’re running a mid-sized app:

• $25 Pro base plan

• $24 for 192 GB extra database

• $60 for Medium compute

• $18.90 for 900 GB extra storage

That’s about $128/month, not counting bandwidth or other overages.

🧭 How to choose

• Start Free to explore and prototype.

• Move to Pro as soon as you need more storage, compute, or users.

• Watch your overages and set up alerts to control spending.

• Upgrade to Team or Enterprise when compliance, support, or SLAs become critical.

Final Thoughts

Supabase pricing is transparent and flexible. You can start without paying a dime, and scale smoothly as your app grows. Whether you're building a hobby project or running a large production app, the structure is designed to fit your needs — and your budget.