PlanetScale Pricing 2026 — Postgres, Vitess & Enterprise Costs

How PlanetScale Pricing Works in 2026

Option	Published starting price	What drives the bill	Best for
Postgres single node	From $5/mo	Instance, storage, IOPS/throughput and egress	Development and low-traffic workloads
Postgres high availability	From $15/mo	Primary plus two included replicas across three availability zones	Production availability
Postgres Metal	From $50/mo	Compute and selected local NVMe storage	High-I/O workloads
Vitess (MySQL-compatible)	Resource-based	Cluster, region, storage, branch hours, VTGates, replicas and read-only regions	Horizontal scale and database branching
Enterprise / Managed	Custom	Infrastructure plus PlanetScale management/support terms	Single tenant, BYOC, PCI and upgraded support

Prices vary by region and architecture. The current Base plan includes 10 GB of network-attached storage; additional storage is $0.50 per GB per instance, so a three-node HA production branch effectively adds $1.50 per GB. The pricing calculator is authoritative for a selected configuration.

What Is Included and What Can Increase the Bill?

Network storage included First 10 GB

Public egress included 100 GB/month

Additional public egress $0.06/GB in the current calculator configuration

Vitess development branches About 1,440 branch-hours included

SSO add-on on Base $199/month

Important: PlanetScale Postgres and Vitess do not share identical branch semantics. Vitess development branches are usage-based after the included hours; Postgres development branches are billed as clusters.

Base vs Enterprise

Base: self-service, month-to-month resource pricing for fully managed Postgres or Vitess.
Enterprise: custom support and deployment options, including single-tenant and PlanetScale Managed in the customer's AWS or GCP account.
Backups: automatic backups run every 12 hours; user-scheduled backup storage is billed separately at $0.023/GB/month.
No free plan: the former Developer/Hobby plan is historical. Current databases require a paid Base subscription.

Postgres vs Vitess: Choose the Engine Before Comparing Price

PlanetScale now sells two materially different database engines. Postgres offers familiar PostgreSQL compatibility and a $5 single-node entry point. Vitess is MySQL-compatible, includes PlanetScale's database branching workflow and is designed for horizontal scale. A cheaper Postgres configuration is not a direct substitute for a production Vitess cluster.

PlanetScale Postgres

From $5/month

Choose for PostgreSQL compatibility, PgBouncer pooling and Database Traffic Control.

✓ Single-node development option
✓ HA and Metal configurations
✓ Vertical sharding
✗ Data Branching not currently included

PlanetScale Vitess

Configuration-based

Choose for MySQL compatibility, horizontal sharding and PlanetScale Data Branching.

✓ Production HA topology
✓ Development branch hours included
✓ Horizontal and vertical sharding
✗ No single-node option

How to Estimate Your PlanetScale Bill

Start with:

database engine and cloud region;
single-node, HA or Metal architecture;
instance/VTGate sizes and replica count;
storage, IOPS/throughput and egress;
production/development branches, SSO, scheduled backups and support.

Published vs usage-dependent:

The $5, $15 and $50 figures are starting configurations, not universal production bills.
Storage and network charges depend on architecture and usage.
Enterprise and Managed terms require a quote.

Best practice: configure the official calculator with your intended region and topology. Do not estimate a Vitess production bill from the Postgres single-node headline.

Example Monthly Configurations

Configuration	Published baseline	Not included in the headline
Postgres single node	From $5/mo	Additional storage, provisioned IOPS/throughput, egress and add-ons
Postgres HA	From $15/mo	Storage is replicated across the three nodes
Postgres Metal	From $50/mo	Chosen NVMe capacity and larger compute
Enterprise Managed	Custom	Cloud infrastructure plus PlanetScale management/support percentage

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