2 categories · RankedPlanetScale
PlanetScale is a managed cloud database service for MySQL and Postgres workloads, hosted on AWS and GCP · planetscale.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Supabase is first at 29%.
Amazon RDS is first at 51%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Amazon Aurora is first at 43%.
Why models recommend it
“*Modern Developer-First / Serverless:* Neon / PlanetScale / Supabase (fast branch-based workflows, serverless scaling).”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“Use Supabase or PlanetScale when developer workflows and application features matter as much as database hosting.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“PlanetScale is a MySQL-compatible database service that offers high performance and scalability.”Llama 4 Maverick · Comparative question · alternative
“best for teams at extreme MySQL scale or teams that want Git-like schema workflows”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“What to Avoid on a Budget - PlanetScale — Removed their free tier in 2024”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Check its sharding model against your data-integrity needs... That's a significant mismatch”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
“The Caution: No native foreign keys and custom MySQL behavior.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“No free tier; removed hobby plan in 2024.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as PlanetScale, over the 58 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 12 | View → | |
| 46 | 4 | View → | |
| 40 | 12 | View → | |
| 38 | 3 | View → | |
| 36 | 5 | View → | |
| 26 | 2 | View → | |
| 18 | 2 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of PlanetScale →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on PlanetScale's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- workloads that outgrow a single node
- Price stated
- PlanetScale Postgres starts at $5 per month; PlanetScale Metal starts at $50 per month
- Starting price
- 5
- Certifications
- SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI DSS
- Hosting
- AWS, GCP, AWS us-east-1, any AWS or GCP region with at least 3 availability zones
- Customers named
- Cash App, Fin, Depot, Dub, Supermemory, MyFitnessPal, Barstool Sports, Autumn
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 37 of the 58 answers that named PlanetScale and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eighty of the 108 domain citations in answers naming PlanetScale came from a third party's page. Seventeen were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 300 | 22 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 124 | 2 | 2026-09-01 | ||
| Conference or event | 23 | 4 | 2026-11-09 | ||
| Report or ebook | 14 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 13 | 2 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Case study | 12 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Hot shards hotter tenants blog
- 2026-09-25When to choose x86 64 vs aarch64 comparison
- 2026-09-23Searching hn with tin blog
- 2026-09-22Anatomy of a postgres search engine blog
- 2026-09-21How to make a replication slot survive a cutover blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page planetscale.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.