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Replicate vs PlanetScale

Run and fine-tune AI models in the cloud — pay-per-second GPU
vs. Serverless MySQL (Vitess) and Postgres at scale

Replicate websitePlanetScale website

Pricing tiers

Replicate

Pay-as-you-go
Per-second GPU billing. No minimum. Public models billed by processing time or tokens.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. Dedicated capacity, private deployments, SOC2, HIPAA on request.
Custom
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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
PlanetScale website

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing payg on Replicate vs pg-ebs-nonha-starter on PlanetScale.

MetricReplicatePlanetScale
ha0 nodes
ram mib512 MiB

Features

Replicate · 11 features

  • 10k+ ModelsPublic catalog of image, video, audio, LLM, embedding, speech models.
  • Batch PredictionsParallel batch execution.
  • CogOSS tool to containerize ML models. Standard for Replicate.
  • DeploymentsPrivate model endpoints with dedicated GPUs.
  • File StorageTemporary output file hosting.
  • Fine-TuningFine-tune FLUX, SDXL, Llama 2/3 with your data.
  • Per-Second BillingPay only while model runs. No idle cost for public models.
  • PlaygroundInteractive UI for every public model.
  • Predictions APIAsync + sync + streaming predictions.
  • Streaming OutputsSSE streaming for LLMs + audio.
  • WebhooksNotify when predictions complete.

PlanetScale · 12 features

  • BackupsAutomated daily backups with retention.
  • Database BranchingGit-like branches of your DB schema (not data). Create, diff, merge via deploy r
  • Deploy RequestsSchema changes in a feature branch get reviewed + auto-applied to main with zero
  • HIPAAHIPAA-compliant deployments (Enterprise).
  • Metal (NVMe)Dedicated NVMe local storage. 10x IOPS vs EBS, latency-critical workloads.
  • PgBouncer PoolerManaged PgBouncer for Postgres clusters. Optional dedicated pooler.
  • PlanetScale BoostQuery result cache with sub-ms reads.
  • Point-in-Time RecoveryRestore cluster to any point within retention window.
  • Postgres on PlanetScalePostgreSQL 15+ with the same branching + deploy-request flow. Launched 2024.
  • Query InsightsPer-query performance analytics, slow query tracking, explain plans.
  • Read-only RegionsRoute reads to the nearest region for lower latency.
  • Vitess (MySQL at scale)Horizontally-sharded MySQL (YouTube-scale) — original PlanetScale offering.

Developer interfaces

KindReplicatePlanetScale
CLICog (package models)PlanetScale CLI (pscale)
SDKreplicate-go, replicate (Node), replicate-python@planetscale/database
RESTReplicate REST APIManagement API
MCPReplicate MCPPlanetScale MCP
OTHERWebhooksMySQL Wire Protocol, Postgres Wire Protocol
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