Cloudflare Developer Platform vs Supabase

Cloudflare Developer Platform

Supabase

Cloudflare Developer Platform · 18 features

• AI Gateway — Proxy for OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini with caching, analytics, retries, rate limitin…
• D1 — Managed serverless SQLite via sqlite-wasm. Read replicas via replicas keyword.
• Durable Objects — Strongly-consistent objects with storage, pinned to a region. Good for sync/stat…
• Email Routing — Catchall email routing + Email Workers for programmatic handling.
• Hyperdrive — Connection pooler + cache for Postgres. Makes your DB edge-fast.
• Images — Store, resize, transform images. Polish on-the-fly.
• KV — Eventually-consistent key-value at every POP. Good for config, caching.
• Pages — Static + SSR framework hosting (Next.js via OpenNext, Remix, Nuxt, SvelteKit).
• Pages Functions — Workers integrated into Pages for backend logic.
• Queues — Persistent message queues with batched consumers. Exactly-once per consumer grou…
• R2 — S3-compatible object storage with **zero egress fees**.
• Stream — Video upload, encoding, adaptive streaming.
• Vectorize — Vector DB at the edge. For RAG + semantic search.
• Workers — V8-isolate serverless at 300+ POPs. Sub-ms cold starts. JS/TS/Rust/Python (beta)…
• Workers AI — Run LLMs (Llama, Mistral) + image, speech, embedding models at edge via @cf/... …
• Workers Logs — Structured logs with 3-day retention on paid.
• Workflows — Durable step-functions for long-running tasks.
• Zaraz — Third-party script management at edge (analytics, marketing tags).

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…