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Supabase
Open-source Firebase alternative built on Postgres. Auth, real-time subscriptions, storage, edge functions, and pgvector for AI embeddings. Generous free tier.
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Supabase gives you a full backend built on top of Postgres. You get a database with a REST and GraphQL API auto-generated from your schema, built-in auth with social providers, real-time subscriptions via websockets, file storage, and edge functions for serverless compute. The pgvector extension makes it a natural choice for AI applications that need vector similarity search alongside traditional relational data. The local development experience uses Docker to run the entire stack on your machine, and the CLI handles migrations and type generation. Supabase pairs exceptionally well with AI app builders like Lovable and Bolt, which use it as their default backend. The free tier includes 500MB database storage, 1GB file storage, and 50K monthly active users.
Supabase at a glance
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- Pricing
- Free - $0/mo: 50,000 MAUs, 500 MB database, 1 GB file storage, 5 GB egress; paused after 1 week of inactivity, 2 active projects
- Pro - from $25/mo: 100,000 MAUs then $0.00325 per MAU, 8 GB disk per project, 250 GB egress, 100 GB file storage, $10/mo compute credits
- Team - from $599/mo: SOC2 and ISO 27001, SSO for the dashboard, 14-day backups, priority support
- Enterprise - custom
- Compute add-ons - from $10/mo (Micro) up to $3,730/mo (16XL); additional projects from $10/mo
- Install
npm install supabase --save-dev- Models
- Not a model host. Supabase stores embeddings in Postgres with the pgvector extension, and it exposes an MCP server for coding agents (the local CLI stack serves one at /mcp), with scoped personal access tokens to limit what an agent can touch.
- Recent changes
- The Supabase Knowledge Base launches in public beta, with troubleshooting guides and migration guides for moving to Supabase from Amazon RDS, Auth0, Firebase, Heroku, MySQL, Neon, Render and more.
- The Supabase .NET SDK now emits traces and metrics through System.Diagnostics, so OpenTelemetry can collect them without the SDK taking a dependency on the OpenTelemetry packages.
- Deprecation notice: outdated CBC-mode TLS 1.2 ciphers will be removed from project HTTP APIs no earlier than November 10, 2026.
- The Supabase .NET SDK is now officially supported for ASP.NET, Blazor, MAUI, Unity and Azure.
- Scoped personal access tokens are generally available, limiting a token to specific projects or organizations across the Management API, MCP server and CLI.
Sources: Supabase pricing, Supabase CLI getting started, Supabase changelog
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