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Statsig vs PlanetScale

Feature management + experimentation + analytics — ex-Facebook team
vs. Serverless MySQL (Vitess) and Postgres at scale

Statsig website ↗PlanetScale website ↗

Pricing tiers

Statsig

Developer (Free)
2M events/mo. Unlimited flag checks + configs. 50K session replays. 1-year retention. Unlimited seats.
Free
Pro
$150/month. 5M events included ($0.05 per 1K additional). Advanced experimentation + analytics. Unlimited retention.
$150/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Warehouse Native deploy. Outgoing data integrations. SSO, RBAC, HIPAA. Priority support.
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
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Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing developer on Statsig vs pg-ebs-nonha-starter on PlanetScale.

MetricStatsigPlanetScale
ha—0 nodes
ram mib—512 MiB

Features

Statsig · 14 features

  • Alerts — Metric threshold + anomaly alerts to Slack/PagerDuty.
  • Autocapture — Zero-config click + pageview tracking.
  • Dynamic Configs — JSON config with targeting — remote config.
  • Experiments (A/B/n) — Full-factorial + sequential + holdouts. Bayesian + frequentist stats.
  • Feature Gates — Boolean flags with targeting rules, gradual rollout, custom attributes.
  • Layers — Mutually-exclusive experiment containers for traffic budget management.
  • Metrics Catalog — Define reusable metrics with guardrails.
  • Outgoing Data Sync — Sync events to warehouses. Enterprise.
  • Product Analytics — Funnels, retention, segments, dashboards — integrated with flags.
  • RBAC + SSO — Role-based access, SAML SSO. Enterprise.
  • Segments / Audiences — Reusable targeting groups.
  • Session Replay — DOM + network replays, 50K/mo free.
  • Warehouse Native — Enterprise: run Statsig in your data warehouse (Snowflake/BQ/Databricks/Redshift…
  • Web Analytics — Pageviews, sources, devices, Core Web Vitals.

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.

Developer interfaces

KindStatsigPlanetScale
CLI—PlanetScale CLI (pscale)
SDKgo-sdk, statsig-android, statsig-erlang, statsig-ios-client-sdk, statsig-java-server-sdk, statsig-js (browser), statsig-node-server-sdk, statsig-python-core@planetscale/database
RESTEvents Ingest API, Statsig Console APIManagement API
MCP—PlanetScale MCP
OTHERWebhooksMySQL Wire Protocol, Postgres Wire Protocol
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