PlanetScale pricing details. Catalogue date September 2026.

PlanetScale — free tier retired retired

Limits, pricing history. Catalogue date September 2026. Last updated 2026-09-26.

PlanetScale's offer is recorded as Retired. Managed MySQL, Postgres and Vitess, formerly a serverless MySQL with a free Hobby plan. No free tier… This offer has ended — we keep the page for the record and no longer rate it.

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Free Tier Details

Managed MySQL, Postgres and Vitess, formerly a serverless MySQL with a free Hobby plan. No free tier. planetscale.com/pricing, read 2026-09-19, prices every plan: Postgres EBS non-HA PS-5 from $5/month, Neki PS-10 arm64 $30/month, Vitess PS-10 $39/month, Metal from $50/month.

Pricing Change History (2 recorded)

corrected effective 2026-09-26 medium impact

Data correction - PlanetScale's Hobby databases were put to sleep with their data kept, not deleted, and the cheapest remaining plan was Scaler Pro at $39 a month with 10 GB, not Scaler with 25 GB. Source ↗

Before: Recorded 2026-03-02 as: all free-tier databases deleted after a 30-day grace period; minimum plan Scaler at $39/month with 25 GB; company pivoted to enterprise focus

After: "Databases which are not upgraded by April 8th will be put into sleep mode." "Will PlanetScale delete my data? No!" Scaler Pro started at $39/month with 10 GB included.

removed effective 2024-04-08 high impact

PlanetScale retired its free Hobby plan on 2024-04-08, after stopping new Hobby databases on 2024-03-06. Hobby databases that were not upgraded were put to sleep with their data kept. The cheapest plan became Scaler Pro at $39 a month with 10 GB of storage. Source ↗

Before: Free Hobby plan: 5 GB storage, 1B row reads/month, 10M row writes/month, 1 production branch, 1 development branch

After: No free tier. Scaler Pro from $39/month with 10 GB storage included. Enterprise custom pricing

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is PlanetScale free?

PlanetScale's offer is recorded as Retired. Managed MySQL, Postgres and Vitess, formerly a serverless MySQL with a free Hobby plan. No free tier. planetscale.com/pricing, read 2026-09-19, prices every plan: Postgres EBS non-HA PS-5 from $5/mont...

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Is PlanetScale's free tier reliable?

PlanetScale has ended this offer, so there is nothing to rate. We keep the page so the question has an answer, but a stability judgement only applies to an offer you can still get.

Is PlanetScale's free tier good for production?

PlanetScale's offer is recorded as Retired. There is no free tier here to run in production.

What changed in PlanetScale's pricing?

PlanetScale has had 1 recorded pricing change. Most recently: PlanetScale retired its free Hobby plan on 2024-04-08, after stopping new Hobby databases on 2024-03-06. Hobby databases that were not upgraded were put to sleep with their data kept. The cheapest plan became Scaler Pro at $39 a month with 10 GB of storage. Source: https://planetscale.com/changelog/deprecating-hobby (2024-04-08). The offer has since ended.

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