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This seems to be mainly aimed at existing PlanetScale customers. > To create a Postgres database, sign up or log in to your PlanetScale account, create a new d

This seems to be mainly aimed at existing PlanetScale customers. > To create a Postgres database, sign up or log in to your PlanetScale account, create a new database, and select Postgres. It does mention the sign up option but doesn't really give me much context about pricing or what it is. I know a bit, but I get confused by different database offerings, so it seems like a missed opportunity to give me two more sentences of context and some basic pricing - what's the easiest way for me to try this if I'm curious? On the pricing page I can start selecting regions and moving slides to create a plan from $39/month and up, but I couldn't easily find an answer to if there's a free trial or cheaper way to 'give it a spin' without committing.

dangoodmanUT 1y ago
PlanetScale isnt' really designed for the "ill give it a go" casual customer that might use supabase It's designed for businesses that need to haul ass
- ritzaco 1y ago
  businesses that 'need to haul ass' usually still want to try something out before buying it. That doesn't need to a a free plan, but it's common to offer some trial period to new users. Also totally OK if planetscale doesn't do this and that $39/month _is_ the best way to try them out, I just think it would be good for them to make explicit in the article what I should do if I think I might want it but want to try it.
  - rcrowley 1y ago
    All our list prices are monthly and our bills are actually even finer-grained - there's no commitment to pay for a database longer than you run it. If you do decide to operate on PlanetScale long-term, check out <https://planetscale.com/pricing https://planetscale.com/pricing> for consumption commitment discounting and other options that might make sense for your company.
  - dangoodmanUT 1y ago
    They try it by contacting sales and setting up a pilot, not a self-service free trial
  - stronglikedan 1y ago
    > but it's common to offer some trial period to new users That is rather uncommon for B2B.
- game_the0ry 1y ago
  I am not experienced enough to know the performance differences between planetscale and supabase, but... > It's designed for businesses that need to haul ass Could you elaborate what you meant by this for my education?
  - samlambert 1y ago
    Performance differences between PlanetScale and Supabase: https://planetscale.com/benchmarks/supabase https://planetscale.com/benchmarks/supabase
    - ndriscoll 1y ago
      > Businesses that need to haul ass > Benchmarks are done on a dual-core VM with "unlimited" IOPS I'd be interested in a comparison with a pair of Beelink SER5 Pros ($300 each) in master-slave config.
      - parthdesai 1y ago
        > > Benchmarks are done on a dual-core VM with "unlimited" IOPS Unlimited is a feature here, no need to be snarky. They famously went against the accepted practice of separating storage from compute, and as a result, you reduce latency by an order of magnitude and get unlimited IOPS.
        ndriscoll 1y ago
        You do not get unlimited IOPS with any technology, but you especially do not get it in AWS, where the machines seem to be? Writing "unlimited" is completely unserious. If it's 67k read/33k write at 4k qd32 or something just say so. Or if you're actually getting full bandwidth to a disk with a 2 core VM (doubt), say 1.5M or whatever.
        mattrobenolt 1y ago
        Unlimited in this context just means you're going to be CPU limited before you hit limits on IOPS. It'd be technically not possible to be bottlenecked on IOPS. That might not be 100% true, but I've never seen a RDBMS be able to saturate IOPS on a local NVMe. It's some quite specialized software to leverage every ounce of IOPS without being CPU bottlenecked first. Postgres and MySQL are not it.
intelekshual 1y ago
PlanetScale (famously?) deprecated their free "Hobby" tier (plus fired their sales & marketing teams) back in 2024 to achieve profitability https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-forever https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-forever
- rimprobablyly 1y ago
  > famously? Notoriously
  - diordiderot 1y ago
    Could you explain?
    - rimprobablyly 1y ago
      Look up the definition of famous and notorious. What needs explaining?

dangoodmanUT 1y ago

PlanetScale isnt' really designed for the "ill give it a go" casual customer that might use supabase It's designed for businesses that need to haul ass

ritzaco 1y ago
businesses that 'need to haul ass' usually still want to try something out before buying it. That doesn't need to a a free plan, but it's common to offer some trial period to new users. Also totally OK if planetscale doesn't do this and that $39/month _is_ the best way to try them out, I just think it would be good for them to make explicit in the article what I should do if I think I might want it but want to try it.
- rcrowley 1y ago
  All our list prices are monthly and our bills are actually even finer-grained - there's no commitment to pay for a database longer than you run it. If you do decide to operate on PlanetScale long-term, check out <https://planetscale.com/pricing https://planetscale.com/pricing> for consumption commitment discounting and other options that might make sense for your company.
- dangoodmanUT 1y ago
  They try it by contacting sales and setting up a pilot, not a self-service free trial
- stronglikedan 1y ago
  > but it's common to offer some trial period to new users That is rather uncommon for B2B.
game_the0ry 1y ago
I am not experienced enough to know the performance differences between planetscale and supabase, but... > It's designed for businesses that need to haul ass Could you elaborate what you meant by this for my education?
- samlambert 1y ago
  Performance differences between PlanetScale and Supabase: https://planetscale.com/benchmarks/supabase https://planetscale.com/benchmarks/supabase
  - ndriscoll 1y ago
    > Businesses that need to haul ass > Benchmarks are done on a dual-core VM with "unlimited" IOPS I'd be interested in a comparison with a pair of Beelink SER5 Pros ($300 each) in master-slave config.
    - parthdesai 1y ago
      > > Benchmarks are done on a dual-core VM with "unlimited" IOPS Unlimited is a feature here, no need to be snarky. They famously went against the accepted practice of separating storage from compute, and as a result, you reduce latency by an order of magnitude and get unlimited IOPS.
      - ndriscoll 1y ago
        You do not get unlimited IOPS with any technology, but you especially do not get it in AWS, where the machines seem to be? Writing "unlimited" is completely unserious. If it's 67k read/33k write at 4k qd32 or something just say so. Or if you're actually getting full bandwidth to a disk with a 2 core VM (doubt), say 1.5M or whatever.
        mattrobenolt 1y ago
        Unlimited in this context just means you're going to be CPU limited before you hit limits on IOPS. It'd be technically not possible to be bottlenecked on IOPS. That might not be 100% true, but I've never seen a RDBMS be able to saturate IOPS on a local NVMe. It's some quite specialized software to leverage every ounce of IOPS without being CPU bottlenecked first. Postgres and MySQL are not it.

intelekshual 1y ago

PlanetScale (famously?) deprecated their free "Hobby" tier (plus fired their sales & marketing teams) back in 2024 to achieve profitability https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-forever https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-forever

rimprobablyly 1y ago
> famously? Notoriously
- diordiderot 1y ago
  Could you explain?
  - rimprobablyly 1y ago
    Look up the definition of famous and notorious. What needs explaining?