PlanetScale

What is PlanetScale?

PlanetScale is a serverless MySQL-compatible database platform that brings Git-like branching to your database schema. You can create development branches, test schema changes, and merge them without downtime — similar to how you'd deploy code changes.

Key Features

• Database branching for safe schema changes
• Non-blocking schema migrations with no downtime
• Automatic horizontal sharding (Vitess)
• Connection pooling built-in
• Usage-based pricing, auto-scales
• Query insights and slow query analysis

Pricing

Hobby plan at $39/month. Scaler Pro at $39/month per database. Enterprise for large workloads.