PlanetScale Alternative: MySQL and Postgres Deployments
PlanetScale announced on March 6th that it would be laying off a large number of its team members and discontinuing the free tier, which will end on April 8th. The smallest paid plan is $39 per month. Developers have less than a month to migrate their databases to another hosting provider.
Northflank is a production alternative to PlanetScale. Northflank is a developer platform for your apps, databases, and cron jobs. You can deploy to our fully managed cloud or your own AWS, GCP, Azure, or Civo cloud accounts.
Features:
- 1-click deploy of your SQL databases via UI, GitOps or CLI
- Scale up horizontally and vertically
- Invite team members to manage your database
- Backups
- Restores
- Logs
- Metrics
- Forking
- Northflank secure proxy
- Public access via Load-balancer
- Private network for your micro-services and jobs
Northflank's data services support:
- MySQL
- Postgres
- Redis
- Minio
- MongoDB
Pricing
Create a free account today in seconds which includes two free databases.
Plans
| Plan | vCPU | Memory | Storage | Price per Container |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nf-compute-10 | 0.1 shared | 256 MB | 1 GB | $2.71/month $0.0038/hr |
| nf-compute-20 | 0.2 shared | 512 MB | 1 GB | $5.41/month $0.0075/hr |
| nf-compute-50 | 0.5 shared | 1024 MB | 1 GB | $12.00/month $0.0167/hr |
| nf-compute-100-1 | 1 dedicated | 1024 MB | 1 GB | $18.00/month $0.0250/hr |
| nf-compute-100-2 | 1 dedicated | 2048 MB | 1 GB | $24.00/month $0.0333/hr |
| nf-compute-100-4 | 1 dedicated | 4096 MB | 1 GB | $36.00/month $0.0500/hr |
| nf-compute-200 | 2 dedicated | 4096 MB | 1 GB | $48.00/month $0.0667/hr |
| nf-compute-200-4 | 2 dedicated | 4096 MB | 1 GB | $48.00/month $0.0667/hr |
Deploy MySQL and Postgres to 4 Global Regions:
- Europe West - London (Supports Free)
- Europe West - Amsterdam
- US Central (Supports Free)
- Asia Singapore
Deploy MySQL to your own Cloud or Kubernetes
If you are concerned about hosting services shutting down access to your databases then consider Northflank BYOC. You have all the benefits of a Managed Provider for your MySQL and Postgres databases while maintaining control over your data residency, deployment regions, cloud expenses, and security.