# Neon vs Supabase vs PlanetScale Postgres Benchmark 2026

> Neon wins serverless Postgres; PlanetScale HA is $83/month always-on. Plus bun test vs Vitest, Oxlint vs Biome, Upstash vs Dragonfly, and D1 vs Turso.

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## Neon vs Supabase vs PlanetScale Postgres Benchmark 2026: Plus Test Runners, Linters, Caches, and Edge Databases
Neon wins serverless Postgres; PlanetScale HA is $83/month always-on. Plus bun test vs Vitest, Oxlint vs Biome, Upstash vs Dragonfly, and D1 vs Turso.
By [Jascha Kaykas-Wolff](https://kaykas.com) · Editor, DevToolReviews
### # Ratings
Our short version: Neon is the best Postgres platform for most serverless apps in 2026, because it scales to zero, autoscales up to 16 CU on Launch, and has an HTTP driver that works from edge functions. PlanetScale is the better buy for an app with steady traffic, at $83 a month for always-on Postgres with two replicas (PS-40, 4 GiB). Supabase wins when you also need auth and storage, since its $25 Pro plan includes auth for 100,000 monthly active users. For the rest of the stack: Vitest for tests, Oxlint in front of ESLint for linting, Upstash on a fixed plan for a serverless cache, and Cloudflare D1 if your app already lives on Workers.
Five benchmark searches kept landing on separate pages that disagreed with each other on price. This one puts them side by side. Postgres prices are the October 29, 2026 list rates for AWS us-east-1, the same figures as our [Supabase vs Neon vs PlanetScale pricing comparison](https://www.devtoolreviews.com/reviews/supabase-vs-planetscale-vs-neon). Cache, edge database, linter, and test runner figures come from each vendor's pricing page or published benchmark, checked November 14, 2026.
A note on the word "benchmark." Where a speed number appears below, it is the vendor's own, and we say whose. We do not publish our own millisecond charts for hosted databases, because the distance from your server to theirs swamps everything else. What we can benchmark honestly is cost at a fixed workload. That is most of this page.
## The 2026 benchmark scorecard
| Tool | Category | Best for | Entry price (list) | Published speed or limit (source) | Key trade-off |
| Neon | Postgres | Serverless apps, a database branch per pull request | Free; Launch $0.106 per CU-hour, no minimum | Wakes from suspend in "a few hundred milliseconds" (Neon docs) | Per-hour compute costs more than a fixed instance when busy all day |
| Supabase | Postgres | Postgres plus bundled auth on one bill | Free; Pro $25/month with $10 compute credit | No cold start on paid plans | Fixed instance sizes; no autoscaling |
| PlanetScale | Postgres or MySQL | Always-on production Postgres with replicas | PS-5 $5/month single node, $15/month HA | Always on; no cold start | No free tier, no scale to zero |
| Vitest | Test runner | Vite and TypeScript projects | Free, open source | 1.91 s on the Zod suite (bun.com chart) | Slower than bun test on Bun's chosen suite |
| Jest | Test runner | Large legacy suites built on Jest-specific mocks | Free, open source | 3.07 s with SWC, 6.71 s with ts-jest (bun.com chart) | The transformer you pick changes the time by more than 2x |
| bun test | Test runner | Projects that already run on Bun | Free, open source | 0.23 s on the Zod suite (bun.com chart) | Bun says Jest compatibility is not complete |
| Oxlint | Linter | Fast CI linting next to or instead of ESLint | Free, open source | 50 to 100 times faster than ESLint (Oxc's benchmarks) | Some ESLint plugins have no equivalent yet |
| ESLint | Linter | Teams that depend on a specific plugin | Free, open source | Baseline | Slowest of the three on a large repo |
| Biome | Linter and formatter | Replacing ESLint and Prettier with one binary | Free, open source | 791 lint rules across JS, TS, JSON, CSS, GraphQL, and more (biomejs.dev) | Plugin story is thinner than ESLint's |
| Upstash Redis | Serverless cache | Edge and serverless functions that call Redis over HTTP | Free 250 MB; $0.20 per 100K commands; Fixed 250 MB $10/month | 10,000 commands per second cap on standard plans (Upstash pricing) | Per-request billing gets expensive on steady traffic |
| Redis Cloud | Managed Redis | Cheap always-on Redis over TCP | Free 30 MB; Essentials from $5/month | Up to 99.99% uptime on Essentials (redis.io) | Pro tier has a $200/month minimum |
| Dragonfly Cloud | Redis-compatible store | Memory-heavy caches and queues at high throughput | Flex from $36/month; $8 per GB-month on demand | 3.97M QPS vs 148K for Redis (Dragonfly's benchmark) | Overkill below a few GB of data |
| Cloudflare D1 | Edge SQLite | Apps already on Cloudflare Workers | Free 5M rows read/day; Workers Paid $5/month | 10 GB maximum per database on Workers Paid | Best inside Workers, awkward elsewhere |
| Turso | Edge SQLite (libSQL) | Portable SQLite across runtimes, local-first sync | Free 100 databases, 500M rows read; Developer $4.99/month | 1-day restore on Free, 10 days on Developer | Another vendor to run beside your host |
## Neon vs Supabase vs PlanetScale: what the same database costs
Here is the workload. One always-on Postgres database with about 4 GB of RAM and 20 GB of data, running all month in us-east-1. It is the shape of a small SaaS that has real users and no traffic pattern worth scaling to zero for.
| Platform | Configuration | Monthly cost | Replicas included | Cold start |
| Supabase Pro | Medium compute add-on | About $77 | No (read replicas are paid add-ons) | None |
| Neon Launch | Always on, autosuspend turned off | About $84 | No (read replicas billed as compute) | None with suspend off |
| PlanetScale | PS-40, single node | $28 plus overages | No | None |
| PlanetScale | PS-40, HA (primary plus two replicas) | $83 plus overages | Two | None |
The rows are matched on memory. CPU is where they part ways: PS-40 has half a vCPU. A Neon CU is a full vCPU. So PlanetScale's $83 buys two replicas and less compute per node, and for a write-heavy app that difference matters more than the price gap.
Flip the workload and the order flips too. A preview database for every pull request, idle 20 hours a day, is where Neon is hard to beat: copy-on-write branches, 10 included on Launch and then $1.50 per branch-month, and compute that suspends after 5 minutes. PlanetScale has no scale to zero, so every one of those previews would bill all month.
Our pick holds from the [production Next.js comparison](https://www.devtoolreviews.com/reviews/supabase-vs-neon-vs-planetscale-production-nextjs-2026). Neon for most serverless apps. PlanetScale once traffic is steady and replicas are a requirement rather than a wish. Supabase when its bundled auth would replace a separate bill.
## Turso vs Cloudflare D1 vs Supabase at the edge
Only two of these are edge databases. Supabase is a regional Postgres instance you reach from an edge function over HTTP, through supabase-js and PostgREST, and it belongs in this comparison because people searching for an edge database often need Postgres more than they need the edge.
| Line item | Cloudflare D1 | Turso | Supabase |
| Engine | SQLite | libSQL (SQLite fork) | Postgres |
| Free tier | 5M rows read and 100K rows written per day, 5 GB total | 100 databases, 5 GB, 500M rows read, 10M rows written per month | 500 MB database, paused after 1 week idle |
| Paid entry | Workers Paid $5/month: 25B rows read and 50M rows written included | Developer $4.99/month: 2.5B rows read, 25M rows written, 9 GB | Pro $25/month |
| Overage | $0.001 per million rows read, $1.00 per million written, $0.75/GB-month | $1 per billion rows read, $1 per million written, $0.75/GB | Compute and storage add-ons |
| How you connect | A Worker binding, env.DB | Remote client, or a local database that syncs | supabase-js over HTTP, or a pooled TCP connection |
| Size limit | 10 GB per database | Plan storage, then overage | 8 GB disk included on Pro |
Watch the D1 meter. Rows read means rows scanned, per Cloudflare's pricing docs, so an unindexed query that returns 10 rows from a 5,000-row table bills 5,000. Turso bills row reads the same way. Add the index first and argue about vendors second.
D1 wins if your code and your data both stay on Cloudflare. Turso wins the moment a cron job or a desktop app needs the same database. Our full two-way test is in [Turso vs Cloudflare D1](https://www.devtoolreviews.com/reviews/turso-vs-cloudflare-d1-comparison-2026).
## Vitest vs Jest vs bun test: runner speed
The only side-by-side number for all three that a vendor publishes comes from Bun. Running the Zod test suite on one machine, bun.com lists:
| Runner | Time (lower is better) | vs bun test |
| bun test | 0.23 s | 1x |
| Vitest | 1.91 s | 8.3x slower |
| Jest + SWC | 3.07 s | 13.3x slower |
| Jest + ts-jest | 6.71 s | 29.2x slower |
| Jest + Babel | 7.43 s | 32.3x slower |
Two things temper that chart. Bun picked the suite. And the most useful finding in it has nothing to do with Bun: Jest with SWC ran in less than half the time of Jest with ts-jest, which means a team stuck on Jest can claw back most of the gap by swapping one transformer in its config.
We still recommend Vitest for most projects. It reads your existing Vite config, it has a stable Browser Mode for component tests since 4.0, and a 1.7-second gap is paid once per full run, which most people never notice. Pick bun test if your app already runs on Bun and your tests do not lean on Jest features Bun has not implemented yet. More detail in our [Vitest vs Jest vs Playwright guide](https://www.devtoolreviews.com/reviews/vitest-vs-jest-vs-playwright-2026-comparison).
## Oxlint vs ESLint vs Biome: linter speed
Oxlint's documentation says its benchmarks show it running 50 to 100 times faster than ESLint. We have not rerun that benchmark. Our own earlier test of Biome, on an M4 Max, finished format plus lint in under 200 ms where ESLint plus Prettier took nearly 12 seconds; that run is written up in [Biome vs Prettier vs ESLint](https://www.devtoolreviews.com/reviews/biome-vs-prettier-vs-eslint).
The speed race between Oxlint and Biome is close enough that it should not decide anything. Scope should. Oxlint is a linter with type-aware rules and an ESLint migration path, and the Oxc project ships a separate formatter, Oxfmt. Biome is one binary that formats and lints, with 791 rules covering JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, CSS, GraphQL, and Markdown.
What we would do on a repo with a slow ESLint step today: put Oxlint in front of it in CI, turn off the ESLint rules Oxlint already covers, and keep ESLint for the two or three plugins that have no replacement. That is a one-afternoon change. Moving to Biome makes sense when you also want Prettier gone, and it is a bigger migration, because formatting diffs touch every file.
## Upstash vs Redis Cloud vs Dragonfly: what a serverless cache costs
The workload: a 250 MB cache used for sessions and rate limiting, taking 30 million commands a month. That averages out to about 11 requests a second.
| Plan | Pricing model | Monthly cost at 30M commands | Connects over |
| Upstash pay-as-you-go | $0.20 per 100K commands; first 1 GB storage free | $60 | HTTP (REST) or TCP |
| Upstash Fixed 250 MB | Flat, unlimited commands, 50 GB bandwidth | $10 | HTTP (REST) or TCP |
| Redis Cloud Essentials | Hourly, from $0.007/hour | $5 at the smallest size | TCP |
| Dragonfly Cloud Flex | From $36/month | $36 minimum | TCP (Redis protocol) |
The break-even is 5 million commands. At $0.20 per 100,000, that is $10, the price of Upstash's fixed 250 MB plan. Below it, pay-as-you-go is cheaper. Above it, you are paying a premium for a meter you no longer need.
Upstash is still our pick for serverless and edge code, because it answers over HTTP and a Vercel Edge Function or a Worker cannot hold a TCP connection open between requests. Move to the fixed plan as soon as traffic is steady. Redis Cloud Essentials is the cheapest always-on Redis if your app runs on a normal server. Dragonfly earns its $36 floor once the data set is measured in tens of gigabytes; its benchmark claims 3.97 million QPS against 148,000 for Redis, and on its own calculator a 12 GB cache comes to $96 a month on demand.
## Where each option fits (and where it does not)
| Tool | Fits | Does not fit |
| Neon | Serverless apps with idle hours, and a preview database per pull request | Busy always-on apps where a fixed instance is cheaper; teams that want auth bundled |
| Supabase | Small teams that would otherwise buy auth separately | Workloads that need autoscaling compute; many concurrent preview branches |
| PlanetScale | Steady production traffic that needs replicas; MySQL sharding on Vitess | Hobby projects and previews, since nothing scales to zero and there is no free tier |
| Vitest | Most TypeScript and Vite projects, including component tests in a real browser | Teams already on Bun chasing every second |
| bun test | Codebases already on Bun that want the fastest loop | Suites that depend on Jest features Bun has not implemented |
| Oxlint | Cutting CI lint time without a big migration | Repos that depend on an ESLint plugin with no Oxlint equivalent |
| Biome | Replacing ESLint and Prettier with one tool | Teams that cannot absorb a repo-wide formatting diff |
| Upstash | Redis from edge and serverless functions | Steady high traffic left on pay-as-you-go |
| Dragonfly | Large, memory-bound caches and queues | A 250 MB session store |
| Cloudflare D1 | Apps living entirely on Workers | Databases past 10 GB; code that runs outside Cloudflare |
| Turso | SQLite shared across runtimes, offline sync | Teams that want one vendor for compute and data |
## The benchmark nobody runs
Your slowest query is probably missing an index, and none of these vendors can sell you one.
## Our picks
Neon for serverless Postgres, PlanetScale HA once you have the traffic to justify $83 a month. Vitest. Oxlint in front of ESLint, or Biome if Prettier goes too. Upstash, on a fixed plan past 5 million commands. D1 on Workers, Turso everywhere else.
## Frequently asked questions
### Which is fastest: Neon, Supabase, or PlanetScale Postgres in 2026?
None of the three wins on raw query speed in a way you will notice, because the network distance between your app and the database dominates. The differences that show up are cold starts and connection handling. Neon suspends idle compute after 5 minutes by default and Neon's docs say waking it takes a few hundred milliseconds. Supabase paid projects and PlanetScale databases stay on, so they have no cold start. For most serverless apps we still pick Neon, because its HTTP driver and pooled endpoint fit how serverless functions connect.
### Is bun test faster than Vitest and Jest?
On Bun's own published benchmark, yes. Running the Zod test suite, bun.com lists bun test at 0.23 seconds, Vitest at 1.91 seconds, Jest with SWC at 3.07 seconds, and Jest with ts-jest at 6.71 seconds, on the same machine. Bun chose that suite, and Bun's docs say its Jest compatibility is not complete, so check your own mocks and DOM setup before switching.
### Is Oxlint really 50 to 100 times faster than ESLint?
That is the Oxc project's own claim, from its benchmarks page as linked from oxc.rs. We have not rerun it. The practical pattern the Oxc docs suggest is to run Oxlint first in CI and keep ESLint only for rules or plugins Oxlint does not cover yet.
### Should I use Upstash pay-as-you-go or a fixed plan?
Use pay-as-you-go only while traffic is small or spiky. At $0.20 per 100,000 commands, 5 million commands a month costs $10, which is the same as Upstash's Fixed 250 MB plan with unlimited commands. Past that, the fixed plan is cheaper. At 30 million commands a month, pay-as-you-go is $60 against $10 fixed.
### Is Cloudflare D1 or Turso better for an edge database in 2026?
D1 if your app already runs on Cloudflare Workers, because the database is a binding with no connection string and Workers Paid includes 25 billion rows read a month. Turso if your app also runs outside Cloudflare, because its clients work from Node, serverless functions, and local or embedded databases with sync. Supabase is the pick only when you need Postgres features such as Row Level Security and bundled auth, since it is a regional Postgres database rather than an edge one.
Winner
Neon for serverless Postgres. PlanetScale for always-on Postgres with replicas. Vitest, Oxlint in front of ESLint, Upstash on a fixed plan, and D1 if you live on Workers.
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