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Managed postgres

Replaces PlanetScale. 2 ways out. Best: Neon (free tier) (switch vendor), about $10 saved in year one.

Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. Paths marked Tested by Stackcut were run end to end by us on our own products. They're our tests, not customer results. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

What you use

  • Managed Postgres
  • Backups

Not covered

  • Vitess MySQL
  • High availability replicas
  • Branching and deploy requests
  • Query insights

Check before switching

  • You only rely on: Managed Postgres, Backups
  • Export your data from PlanetScale before canceling

Agents: get_recipe("replace-planetscale") on the Stackcut MCP server.

2 ways out, best first

Switch vendorNeon (free tier)Saves $10 in year one
$5/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $60/yr · payback 10 mo
1 seat. If your use fits the free tier (0.5 GB storage per project, 100 CU-hours per project, up to 100 projects, 10 branches per project, up to 2 CU, 5 GB egress per project; scales to zero after 5 min).
Covers 100% of the core features
Neon Free with branching and scale-to-zero for dev and small apps.
Sources: planetscale.comneon.com
Switch vendorSupabase (free tier)Saves $10 in year one
$5/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $60/yr · payback 10 mo
1 seat. If your use fits the free tier (500 MB database, 1 GB file storage, 50,000 MAU, 5 GB egress, 2 active projects; paused after 1 week of inactivity; no overages).
Covers 100% of the core features
Supabase Free Postgres for small projects.
Sources: planetscale.comsupabase.com

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