Supabase pricing in 2026: what the $25 Pro plan really costs

Supabase pricing has two layers, and most surprise bills come from the second one. The plan fee is the part everyone quotes: $0, $25, or $599. Compute is billed separately, per project, by the hour.

Once you see how those two layers fit, the bill is easy to predict. We went through the full Supabase pricing page and the cost-control docs on 8 October 2026 and worked out what real setups cost each month.

What are Supabase's plans and prices?

Source: Supabase pricing, checked 8 Oct 2026. Team adds SOC 2, ISO 27001, SSO for the dashboard, and an optional HIPAA add-on.

Pro is billed up front each month. Overages land at the end of the billing cycle.

How does Supabase compute pricing work?

Every project runs on its own compute instance, and each instance has an hourly price. Pro and Team include $10 a month in compute credit, which covers exactly one Micro instance.

Source: Supabase pricing. Disk includes 3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/s of throughput; extra IOPS cost $0.024 each and extra throughput $0.095 per MB/s.

Supabase's own example: a Pro org with 2 Micro projects pays $25 + $10 + $10, minus the $10 credit, which is $35 a month. The credit applies once per organization. It doesn't multiply with your projects.

This is why "Supabase is $25" gets people in trouble. A staging project, a side project, and production on one Pro org is $45 before any usage.

What does Supabase actually cost each month?

Here are 6 setups priced from the published rates. Overages assume the spend cap is off, since the cap blocks those charges instead.

Our arithmetic from supabase.com/pricing. Taxes not included.

The jump in the fifth row is worth staring at. Going from 100,000 to 150,000 monthly active users costs more than six times the Pro base fee. If you're building a consumer app with lots of light users, model MAU before you model anything else.

What are the Free plan's real limits?

The Free plan is generous for prototypes and strict about idle projects:

• Pauses after 1 week of inactivity. You can restore it, but a paused demo won't load for a visitor.
• 2 active projects per account.
• 500 MB database on shared CPU with 500 MB of RAM.
• 500,000 Edge Function invocations, 200 Realtime peak connections, and 2 million Realtime messages.
• 50 MB max file upload and 1 day of logs.

If anything public depends on it, move to Pro. The pause rule alone makes Free a bad home for production.

What do Pro usage overages cost?

Beyond the table above, Pro meters a few more things:

• Edge Functions: 2 million invocations included, then $2 per million.
• Realtime: 500 peak connections included, then $10 per 1,000. 5 million messages included, then $2.50 per million.
• Image transformations: 100 origin images included, then $5 per 1,000.
• Max upload size: 500 GB per file.

Which Supabase add-ons add up fast?

These are opt-in, and none of them are covered by the spend cap:

Source: Supabase pricing. A branch running all month (about 730 hours) is roughly $9.81.

How do you keep a Supabase bill predictable?

Start with the spend cap, which is on by default for Pro. Per the cost-control docs, when it's on and you pass a quota, Supabase blocks further use of that item until the next cycle instead of charging you.

It covers disk size, egress, Edge Function invocations, logs, MAU, Realtime, storage, and image transformations. It doesn't cover compute, branching, read replicas, custom domains, extra IOPS or throughput, IPv4, log drains, phone MFA, or point-in-time recovery.

A few more habits that help:

1. Count projects. Each project is its own compute line, even inside one org. Pause or delete the ones you don't use.
2. Right-size compute. Moving from Micro to Medium costs $50 more a month. Check your database metrics first.
3. Cache what you serve. Cached egress is $0.03/GB against $0.09/GB uncached.
4. Watch the Upcoming Invoice. The billing page shows a running estimate for the cycle.

Is Supabase cheaper than the alternatives?

For a typical SaaS MVP, Pro at $25 to $35 is hard to beat for a hosted Postgres database with auth, storage, and Realtime included. Our Supabase vs Firebase comparison covers when Firebase's pay-as-you-go Blaze plan works out cheaper.

If you're pricing a whole stack, pair this with Vercel vs Netlify vs Cloudflare Pages for hosting and our Stripe fees breakdown for payments.

Self-hosting is free in license terms. Supabase supports Docker and the CLI, and you take on servers, backups, and upgrades yourself.

What we didn't verify

• Team and Enterprise quotas beyond what the pricing page lists. Large orgs get custom terms.
• Performance at each compute size. We list Supabase's prices and memory, not benchmarks.
• Regional pricing. All figures are USD before tax.