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Anthropic API vs Supabase

API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning
vs. The open source Firebase alternative with Postgres

Anthropic website ↗Supabase website ↗

Pricing tiers

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

Supabase

Free
Perfect for experiments. Projects pause after 7 days inactivity.
Free
Pro
Production-ready. Usage-based overages apply.
$25/mo
Team
For teams; includes SOC2 attestation and priority support.
$599/mo
Enterprise
Custom quotas, HIPAA compliance, dedicated support.
Custom
Supabase website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing opus-4-7 on Anthropic API vs free on Supabase.

MetricAnthropic APISupabase
bandwidth gb—5 GB/month
db storage gb—0.5 GB
discount batch50 % off—
edge invocations—500000 invocations/month
file storage gb—1 GB
mau—50000 users/month
realtime messages—2000000 messages/month

Features

Anthropic API · 0 features

    Supabase · 24 features

    • Authentication — Complete JWT-based auth: passwords, magic links, OTP, OAuth, SSO, phone, MFA.
    • Backups & PITR — Automatic daily backups + Point-in-Time Recovery (WAL-G). 14-day default PITR wi…
    • Compute Instances — Upgradeable DB compute: Micro, Small, Medium, Large. Affects CPU, RAM, and conne…
    • Connection Pooling — Supavisor pooler: Session mode (persistent) and Transaction mode (serverless). D…
    • Cron Jobs — Scheduled recurring jobs via pg_cron. Trigger DB functions, edge functions, or H…
    • Custom Domains — Configure custom hostname for API endpoints with SSL certificate management.
    • Database Webhooks — Async HTTP callbacks on INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE via pg_net extension.
    • Edge Functions — TypeScript (Deno runtime) functions deployed globally at the edge. Supports secr…
    • Full-Text Search — PostgreSQL native FTS: to_tsvector, to_tsquery, GIN indexes, fuzzy matching, wei…
    • Image Transformations — On-the-fly resize, crop, quality (20-100), WebP auto-format. Smart CDN caching. …
    • Log Drains — Route all stack logs to HTTP, Datadog, Loki, Sentry, S3, OTLP, or Axiom. Up to 2…
    • Metrics API — ~200 Prometheus-compatible Postgres metrics. OpenTelemetry export to Datadog, Gr…
    • Network Restrictions — CIDR allowlist for database access. Multiple IP ranges supported. Pro+ plan.
    • OAuth 2.1 Server — Use Supabase Auth as OAuth provider. Custom Access Token Hooks for claim injecti…
    • pgvector — Store and search vector embeddings in Postgres. Supports HNSW/Flat indexes, cosi…
    • PostgreSQL Database — Full PostgreSQL per project: SQL editor, table editor, CSV import, 50+ extension…
    • PostgreSQL Extensions — 50+ pre-installed extensions: uuid-ossp, pgvector, pg_cron, plv8, pgtap, pg_net,…
    • Preview Branches — Ephemeral or persistent DB branches for isolated testing. Git integration, auto-…
    • Queues — Exactly-once message queues built on pgmq. Stored in Postgres with configurable …
    • Read Replicas — Async read-only replicas in multiple regions. Geo-routing, replication lag monit…
    • Realtime — WebSocket subscriptions for DB changes (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE), broadcast, and pr…
    • Row Level Security — SQL-native access control; policies auto-filter rows based on auth.uid() / auth.…
    • SSL Enforcement — Require TLS for all DB connections. Configurable: required, preferred, disabled.
    • Storage — Files, Analytics (Iceberg), and Vector buckets with global CDN (285+ cities) and…

    Developer interfaces

    KindAnthropic APISupabase
    CLIClaude Code CLISupabase CLI
    SDKGo SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)C# SDK, Flutter SDK, JavaScript SDK, Kotlin SDK, Python SDK, Swift SDK
    RESTAWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)Management API, REST API (PostgREST)
    GRAPHQL—GraphQL (pg_graphql)
    MCP—Supabase MCP Server
    OTHER—Realtime (WebSocket)
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