Hasura Cloud vs PlanetScale
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Hasura Cloud and PlanetScale.
Quick Verdict
4.0/5
Hasura Cloud
0 reviews
4.2/5
PlanetScale
0 reviews
PlanetScale is rated higher (4.2 vs 4.0). Hasura (now Hasura DDN) generates a production GraphQL API from databases, code and existing APIs, with model-based pricing, a global edge network and an open-source self-hostable engine Managed Postgres and MySQL (Vitess) databases with branching and zero-downtime schema changes. No free tier; Postgres starts at $5/month, Vitess at $39/month.
Hasura Cloud Managed supergraph platform (Hasura DDN) generating GraphQL APIs from databases, code and APIs | PlanetScale Serverless MySQL with database branching | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 4.0 (0 reviews) | 4.2 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | freemium | paid |
| Starting price | Free tier available✓ | From $5/mo |
| Best for | Teams wanting a production GraphQL API across multiple data sources without building a resolver layer — and solo developers who can run a real product on the free tier | Teams running MySQL (or Postgres) at scale who want Vitess-grade sharding and safe, reviewable schema migrations without operating the infrastructure themselves |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | — | 0 vCPU |
| RAM | — | 1 GB |
| Storage | — | 10 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | 0 TB/mo |
| SLA uptime | — | 99.99% |
| Data-center count | — | 19 |
| €/GB RAM/mo | — | €5.00 |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ✓ | |
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | — | 12 AWS + 7 GCP regions incl. US, EU, APAC (Tokyo, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul) and South America (Sao Paulo) |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tieropen sourceself hostableapi access | free tiermanaged optionbackups includedeu datacenterus datacenterapi access |
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Hasura Cloud
Pros
- + Free tier includes unlimited models, unlimited API requests and the global edge network
- + Per-active-model pricing charges only for models with real traffic
- + Full API layer out of the box: queries, subscriptions, authorization, schema registry
- + Open-source engine with a self-hosting escape hatch
- + SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliance on every tier
Cons
- - Hasura-specific concepts (models, supergraphs, active models) take real learning
- - Per-model cost scales with a wide, hot schema
- - No published uptime SLA or support response-time matrix
- - Data residency, SSO, audit logs and HIPAA are Advanced-tier features
- - GraphQL is a bigger commitment than a plain REST layer for simple CRUD
PlanetScale
Pros
- + Built by the Vitess maintainers — branching, deploy requests and online schema migrations are first-class
- + Three engines (Postgres, Vitess, sharded Neki) plus Metal local-NVMe tiers for I/O-heavy workloads
- + Unusually transparent pricing: published SKU tables and a SQL-queryable per-region pricing endpoint
- + Three-zone HA with automatic failover and a 99.99% SLA on HA configurations
- + 19 AWS/GCP regions plus a bring-your-own-cloud Managed option for data-residency needs
Cons
- - No free tier or trial — the Hobby plan was retired in April 2024
- - Metered extras (storage, egress, backups, branch hours) make the real bill higher than sticker prices
- - Vitess constraints: no foreign keys in the classic model and a real sharding learning curve
- - Single-node $5 entry is not highly available; production HA starts at $15/month before usage
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