PlanetScale vs Cloudflare Developer Platform
Serverless MySQL (Vitess) and Postgres at scale
vs. Workers, Pages, D1, R2, KV — edge-native serverless
Pricing tiers
PlanetScale
Postgres EBS single-node — PS-5
Single-node EBS, 512 MiB RAM, arm64. Entry point for Postgres.
$5/mo
Postgres EBS HA — PS-5
3-node (primary + 2 replicas), 512 MiB, arm64.
$15/mo
Vitess (non-Metal) — PS-10
Vitess MySQL sharded cluster, 1 GiB RAM.
$39/mo
Postgres Metal — M-10
3-node Metal, 1 GiB RAM + 10 GiB local storage. Much higher IOPS.
$50/mo
Vitess Metal — M-160
Vitess Metal, 16 GiB RAM + 110 GiB storage.
$609/mo
Enterprise
Custom agreements, dedicated regions, 99.99% SLA.
Custom
Cloudflare Developer Platform
Free
Workers: 100k req/day, 10ms CPU/req. D1: 5M reads/day. KV: 100k reads/day. R2: 10 GB/mo. Durable Objects: 100k req/day.
Free
Workers Paid
$5/month minimum. 10M Workers req/mo + overages. Generous D1, KV, R2 allowances. All services unlocked.
$5/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Higher SLAs, dedicated support, account managers.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing pg-ebs-nonha-starter on PlanetScale vs free on Cloudflare Developer Platform.
| Metric | PlanetScale | Cloudflare Developer Platform |
|---|---|---|
| d1 reads day | — | 5000000 rows/day |
| d1 storage gb | — | 5 GB |
| d1 writes day | — | 100000 rows/day |
| durable objects gb sec | — | 13000 GB-sec/day |
| durable objects requests | — | 100000 req/day |
| ha | 0 nodes | — |
| kv reads day | — | 100000 reads/day |
| kv storage gb | — | 1 GB |
| kv writes day | — | 1000 writes/day |
| r2 class a ops | — | 1000000 ops/month |
| r2 class b ops | — | 10000000 ops/month |
| r2 egress | — | free (unlimited) egress |
| r2 storage gb | — | 10 GB/month |
| ram mib | 512 MiB | — |
| workers cpu ms | — | 10 ms/invocation |
| workers logs events | — | 200000 events/day |
| workers requests day | — | 100000 req/day |
Features
PlanetScale · 12 features
- Backups — Automated daily backups with retention.
- Database Branching — Git-like branches of your DB schema (not data). Create, diff, merge via deploy r…
- Deploy Requests — Schema changes in a feature branch get reviewed + auto-applied to main with zero…
- HIPAA — HIPAA-compliant deployments (Enterprise).
- Metal (NVMe) — Dedicated NVMe local storage. 10x IOPS vs EBS, latency-critical workloads.
- PgBouncer Pooler — Managed PgBouncer for Postgres clusters. Optional dedicated pooler.
- PlanetScale Boost — Query result cache with sub-ms reads.
- Point-in-Time Recovery — Restore cluster to any point within retention window.
- Postgres on PlanetScale — PostgreSQL 15+ with the same branching + deploy-request flow. Launched 2024.
- Query Insights — Per-query performance analytics, slow query tracking, explain plans.
- Read-only Regions — Route reads to the nearest region for lower latency.
- Vitess (MySQL at scale) — Horizontally-sharded MySQL (YouTube-scale) — original PlanetScale offering.
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).
Developer interfaces
| Kind | PlanetScale | Cloudflare Developer Platform |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | PlanetScale CLI (pscale) | Wrangler CLI |
| SDK | @planetscale/database | — |
| REST | Management API | Cloudflare REST API, D1 HTTP (via Worker), R2 S3-compatible API |
| MCP | PlanetScale MCP | Cloudflare MCP |
| OTHER | MySQL Wire Protocol, Postgres Wire Protocol | Workers Runtime (V8) |
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