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The world’s fastest and most scalable cloud databases

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PlanetScale - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: April 2026

PlanetScale overview

What is PlanetScale?

Vitess allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally through explicit sharding — enabling a shared nothing architecture distributing data across thousands of nodes, all routed through a single database connection.

Vitess was developed at YouTube by the founders of PlanetScale to scale their main MySQL database to petabytes of data on 70,000 nodes across 20 data centers. Now maintained and managed by PlanetScale, Vitess powers the databases of some of the web's largest properties: Slack, HubSpot, Blizzard, Etsy, GitHub, Block, Bloomberg, Yelp, and more.

PlanetScale Postgres starts at $5 per month and gives you a fully managed PostgreSQL cluster built for performance and reliability, offering first-class tooling without sacrificing developer experience. Available in AWS and GCP. High availability clusters deliver automatic failover across three availability zones.

Neki is our next-generation Postgres sharding architecture inspired by everything we have learned building Vitess: a fresh design from first principles to bring massive scale and reliability to PostgreSQL workloads.

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PlanetScale's key features

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