Supabase's Pro plan is from $25 a month with the first project included and additional projects from $10 a month, and the page is unusually explicit about what happens past the included allowances: 100,000 monthly active users then $0.00325 per MAU, 8 GB of disk size per project then $0.125 per GB, 250 GB of egress then $0.09 per GB, 250 GB of cached egress then $0.03 per GB, and 100 GB of file storage then $0.0213 per GB. Compute is added separately and priced by size, from a shared Micro instance at $10 a month with 1 GB of RAM and 60 direct connections, through Small at $15 and Medium at $60, to dedicated sizes: Large at $110 for 2 vCPU and 8 GB, XL at $210, 2XL at $410, 4XL at $960, 8XL at $1,870, 12XL at $2,800 and 16XL at $3,730 for 64 vCPU and 256 GB. Team is from $599 a month with SSO, backup control and industry certifications.
TL;DR
Render and Supabase both put a $25 plan at the centre, but they sell different things. Render charges $0, $25 or $499 a month for the workspace and then prices instances monthly, from $7 for 512 MB and less than one CPU, plus separately priced managed Postgres instances from a free 256 MB tier through $6, $19, $40 and $100 a month. Supabase charges from $25 a month for Pro with the first project included and additional projects from $10 a month, then meters usage beyond included allowances: 100,000 monthly active users before $0.00325 per MAU, 8 GB disk before $0.125 per GB, 250 GB egress before $0.09 per GB, and compute add-ons from $10 for a shared Micro instance up to $3,730 for a dedicated 64 vCPU instance.
Render's structure is a workspace fee plus instance prices. Hobby is $0 a month plus compute, Pro is $25 a month plus compute and Scale is $499 a month plus compute, with Enterprise quoted. Compute instances are fixed monthly amounts from $7 for 512 MB and less than one CPU, through $25 for 1 CPU and 2 GB, $85 for 2 CPU and 4 GB and $135 for 2 CPU and 8 GB, up to several thousand dollars a month for the largest 128 CPU shapes. Managed Postgres is billed per instance from a free 256 MB tier, then $6 for 256 MB, $19 for 1 GB, $40 for 2 GB, $55 for 4 GB and $100 for 8 GB, with 100 connections per instance and expandable storage at $0.30 per GB. A managed key-value store runs from a free 25 MB instance to $10 a month for 256 MB with 250 connections.
Read honestly, these are not substitutes for the same job. Render hosts applications, background workers and static sites in Node, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby and Elixir, plus Docker containers, and attaches managed databases to them. Supabase is a Postgres platform where the database is the product, with authentication, storage and a connection pooler attached to the same project, and where cost is driven by user count and data volume rather than by instance shapes alone. If you need somewhere to run a web service, Render's instance list answers the question directly. If you need Postgres with auth and storage, Supabase's meters do, and the two numbers worth watching are monthly active users and egress.
| Feature | Render | Supabase |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | Hobby workspace at $0 a month plus compute | Free plan at $0 a month, best for passion projects and simple websites |
| Middle plan | Pro workspace at $25 a month plus compute | Pro from $25 a month with the first project included, additional projects from $10 a month |
| Top plan | Scale at $499 a month plus compute | Team from $599 a month with SSO, backup control and certifications |
| Billing model | Workspace fee plus fixed monthly instance prices | Plan plus meters for users, disk, egress and file storage, plus compute add-ons |
| Smallest compute | $7 a month for 512 MB and less than one CPU | Shared Micro at $10 a month with 1 GB RAM and 60 direct, 200 pooled connections |
| Largest published compute | 128 CPU shapes priced into the thousands per month | 16XL at $3,730 a month for 64 vCPU and 256 GB |
| Included users | Not applicable to the hosting model | 100,000 monthly active users on Pro, then $0.00325 per MAU |
| Included egress | Charged on top of instance costs | 250 GB on Pro, then $0.09 per GB |
| Managed database | Postgres from a free 256 MB tier, then $6, $19, $40, $55 and $100 a month | Postgres is the product; disk beyond 8 GB per project is $0.125 per GB |
| Custom domain | Not a separate line item on the workspace comparison | Starts from $100 a month |
| Extras priced on their own lines | SSDs at $0.25 per GB per month and database expandable storage at $0.30 per GB | Point-in-time recovery at $100 a month per seven days of retention, branching at $0.01344 per branch per hour, log drains at $60 per drain per project |
| Best fit | Running web services, workers and containers with an attached database | Applications where Postgres, authentication and storage are the foundation |
Pick Render if
Render is the better fit when the thing you need is somewhere to run code. It hosts services, background workers and static sites across Node, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby and Elixir plus Docker containers, and the price list is a set of fixed monthly instances: $7 for 512 MB and less than one CPU, $25 for 1 CPU and 2 GB, $85 for 2 CPU and 4 GB, stepping up through $450 and beyond for larger shapes. The workspace plans are $0 on Hobby, $25 on Pro and $499 on Scale, each plus compute, so Pro deployments carry a standing $25 before any instance starts. Managed Postgres and a key-value store are available alongside, from a free 256 MB database to $100 a month for 8 GB, and SSDs at $0.25 per GB per month.
Pick Supabase if
Supabase is the stronger buy when the database is the centre of the application and you want authentication, file storage and connection pooling attached to it. Pro is from $25 a month with the first project included, and the meters are published rather than discovered: 100,000 monthly active users before $0.00325 per MAU, 8 GB of disk per project before $0.125 per GB, 250 GB of egress before $0.09 per GB, and 100 GB of file storage before $0.0213 per GB. Compute is a separate dial from a shared Micro instance at $10 a month to a dedicated 16XL at $3,730. The two figures that decide the bill are monthly active users and egress, so an application with a small, busy user base can be cheap while a free-tier app that goes viral is not.
Neither Render nor Supabase publishes third-party review data we are willing to restate as fact, and we did not run either platform. Every figure here comes from the two vendors' own pricing pages as published when this comparison was written. The lists headed 'vendor-published claims' are the vendors' own statements, not user reviews.
Only partly. Render runs applications, workers, static sites and containers and sells managed databases to attach to them, priced as workspace plus fixed monthly instances. Supabase is a Postgres platform with authentication, storage and connection pooling attached to the database, priced as a plan plus meters for users, disk and egress plus compute add-ons. Many teams use both rather than choosing.
Render's $25 buys the Pro workspace and nothing else, since compute is charged on top, starting at $7 a month per instance. Supabase's $25 buys the Pro plan with the first project included, capped compute, 100,000 monthly active users, 8 GB of disk, 250 GB of egress and 100 GB of file storage, with compute add-ons from $10 a month for a shared Micro instance.
Supabase publishes its meters, so the answer is visible: past 100,000 monthly active users it charges $0.00325 per MAU, past 250 GB of egress $0.09 per GB, and past 8 GB of disk per project $0.125 per GB. Render's risk is different in kind, since instances are fixed monthly prices and a larger shape is a deliberate upgrade rather than an automatic overage.
Supabase includes Postgres as the core product: Pro covers 8 GB of disk per project before $0.125 per GB, with point-in-time recovery at $100 a month per seven days of retention. Render prices managed Postgres per instance from a free 256 MB tier, then $6 for 256 MB, $19 for 1 GB, $40 for 2 GB, $55 for 4 GB and $100 for 8 GB, with expandable storage at $0.30 per GB.
Render puts governance and compliance in the Scale plan at $499 a month plus compute and quotes Enterprise for dedicated support and higher limits. Supabase puts SSO, backup control and industry certifications in Team from $599 a month, with Enterprise quoted.
Both have one. Render's Hobby workspace is $0 a month plus compute, and its managed Postgres has a free 256 MB instance and the key-value store a free 25 MB instance. Supabase's Free plan is $0 a month for passion projects and simple websites, though free projects pause after a week of inactivity.
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