{"head":{"title":"PlanetScale Pricing: Postgres and Vitess Clusters | OceanLab","description":"PlanetScale prices for Postgres and Vitess clusters, storage and egress on AWS us-east-1, read off PlanetScale's own pricing pages. Estimate a month.","canonical":"https://oceanlab.in/pricing/planetscale"},"asOf":"2026-10-25","vendor":{"id":"planetscale","name":"PlanetScale","product":"PlanetScale Postgres / Vitess","categories":["databases"],"source":"https://planetscale.com/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"AWS us-east-1 (N. Virginia), USD, monthly cluster prices. PlanetScale says prices vary by cloud and region. Storage and egress rates come from PlanetScale's own rate tables linked from its docs.","plans":[{"id":"postgres-single","name":"Postgres single node (PS-5)","monthly":5,"summary":"1/16 vCPU, 512 MiB, 1 node; for development and low-traffic workloads","source":"https://planetscale.com/pricing.md"},{"id":"postgres-ha","name":"Postgres HA (PS-5, 1 primary + 2 replicas)","monthly":15,"summary":"Smallest highly available Postgres cluster across 3 availability zones","source":"https://planetscale.com/pricing.md"},{"id":"vitess","name":"Vitess (PS-10, 3-node)","monthly":39,"summary":"Smallest MySQL-compatible Vitess cluster, 1/8 vCPU, 1 GiB","source":"https://planetscale.com/pricing.md"},{"id":"enterprise","name":"Enterprise","monthly":null,"summary":"Custom pricing, bring your own cloud, upgraded support","source":"https://planetscale.com/pricing"}],"meters":[{"id":"pg-ps5-single","kind":"db-instance","label":"Postgres PS-5 single node (1/16 vCPU, 512 MiB)","unit":"instance-month","per":1,"price":5,"included":0,"plan":"postgres-single","region":"us-east-1","source":"https://planetscale.com/pricing.md"},{"id":"pg-ps5-ha","kind":"other","label":"Postgres PS-5 HA cluster (3 nodes)","unit":"cluster-month","per":1,"price":15,"included":0,"plan":"postgres-ha","region":"us-east-1","source":"https://planetscale.com/pricing.md"},{"id":"pg-storage","kind":"db-storage-gb","label":"Postgres network-attached storage (gp3) beyond 10 GB, per instance","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"price":0.125,"included":10,"plan":null,"region":"us-east-1","note":"Billed per instance: an HA cluster pays it on the primary and both replicas.","source":"https://api.planetscale.com/www/storage-rates?region=us-east"},{"id":"pg-egress","kind":"egress-gb","label":"Postgres public egress beyond the included amount","unit":"GB","per":1,"price":0.06,"included":100,"plan":null,"region":"us-east-1","note":"Included egress is 100 GB/month on a production branch, 10 GB on PS-5 non-HA. Ingress is free.","source":"https://api.planetscale.com/www/egress-rates?region=us-east"},{"id":"backup-storage","kind":"other","label":"Backup and WAL storage beyond 2x disk size","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"price":0.023,"included":0,"plan":null,"source":"https://planetscale.com/docs/postgres/pricing.md"},{"id":"vitess-storage","kind":"other","label":"Vitess network-attached storage beyond 10 GB, per instance","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"price":0.5,"included":10,"plan":"vitess","note":"An HA production branch is billed $1.50/GB (1 primary + 2 replicas).","source":"https://planetscale.com/docs/planetscale-plans.md"},{"id":"private-net","kind":"other","label":"Private connection traffic (egress and ingress)","unit":"GB","per":1,"price":0.01,"included":0,"plan":null,"source":"https://planetscale.com/docs/postgres/pricing.md"}],"notes":[{"title":"No free plan","detail":"PlanetScale has no free plan. The cheapest database is a single-node Postgres at $5 a month."},{"title":"Billing","detail":"Clusters are billed for the size you pick, prorated to the millisecond. Storage, backups and egress beyond the included amounts are extra."},{"title":"Size cap for new accounts","detail":"Cluster sizes are capped at PS-160 and M-320 until you have paid an invoice of at least $100."}],"unverified":["IOPS and throughput overage rates (shown only in the dashboard)."]},"categories":[{"id":"databases","name":"Database","href":"/pricing/categories/databases"}],"siblings":[{"label":"AWS pricing","href":"/pricing/aws","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Microsoft Azure pricing","href":"/pricing/azure","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"DigitalOcean pricing","href":"/pricing/digitalocean","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Firebase pricing","href":"/pricing/firebase","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Google Cloud pricing","href":"/pricing/google-cloud","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"MongoDB Atlas pricing","href":"/pricing/mongodb-atlas","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Neon pricing","href":"/pricing/neon","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Render pricing","href":"/pricing/render","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Supabase pricing","href":"/pricing/supabase","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."}],"faqs":[{"question":"How much does PlanetScale cost?","answer":"The lowest paid plan listed is Postgres single node (PS-5) at $5 a month. Usage rates include postgres PS-5 single node (1/16 vCPU, 512 MiB) at $5 per instance-month, postgres network-attached storage (gp3) beyond 10 GB, per instance at $0.125 per GB-month and postgres public egress beyond the included amount at $0.06 per GB. All checked on 2026-10-25."},{"question":"Is there a free tier on PlanetScale?","answer":"Yes. Postgres network-attached storage (gp3) beyond 10 GB, per instance: 10 GB-month a month at no charge and Postgres public egress beyond the included amount: 100 GB a month at no charge. The rates table shows which plan each allowance is on."},{"question":"What is not on PlanetScale's pricing page?","answer":"We could not confirm these on 2026-10-25, so the page shows no number for them: IOPS and throughput overage rates (shown only in the dashboard)."},{"question":"Where do these prices come from?","answer":"From PlanetScale's own pricing pages, starting at https://planetscale.com/pricing, checked on 2026-10-25. Every row links to the page it came from. AWS us-east-1 (N. Virginia), USD, monthly cluster prices. PlanetScale says prices vary by cloud and region. Storage and egress rates come from PlanetScale's own rate tables linked from its docs."}]}