Supabase is pretty supa
March 18, 2025
Supabase is pretty supa
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Supabase
We used Supabase to get a backend up quickly for multiple different full-stack projects in development, and continued using Supabase in production. It gave us a way to have lots of features out of the box for a postgresql database, and scalability was clear.
Pros
- Getting up and running quickly and cheaply
- Edge functions
- Flexibility with login options
- Data GUI
- Settings GUI
Cons
- The policies preventing turning off a server are nonsense
- On a lower pricing tier, reaching a usage limit can prevent setting modification to go back under that usage limit
- It's still in beta, so use in production can be problematic at times
- Gave us a scalable system to reduce a client's backend costs by over 75%
- Allowed us to get a custom backend up for an internal plugin in half the time we originally expected
- MySQL and Apache CouchDB
The extent of the options offered by Supabase far exceeded other similar products we've tried in the past. Also, their documentation has been excellent for us. Self-hosting is not what it's cracked up to be, but that's usually the case with these kinds of tools, anyway. I don't know anyone else I've talked to about Supabase who self-hosts, either. For something super micro small, Pocketbase is genuinely self-hostable, but it's been best for prototypes and proofs-of-concept, perhaps not with something expecting a lot of users. That's where Supabase's scalability and flexibility become more valuable.
Do you think Supabase delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Supabase's feature set?
Yes
Did Supabase live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Supabase go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Supabase again?
Yes
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