Supabase vs Together AI
The open source Firebase alternative with Postgres
vs. Open-source LLM infra — inference + fine-tuning + dedicated GPUs + image/video/audio
Pricing tiers
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
Together AI
Pay-as-you-go
Per-token pricing for serverless inference. No minimum.
$0 base (usage-based)
Dedicated Endpoints
Single-tenant GPU endpoints billed hourly.
$0 base (usage-based)
Batch API (50% off)
50% discount for async batch processing on most serverless models.
$0 base (usage-based)
Reserved GPU Clusters
6+ day commitments with discounted reserved rates.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. Private deployments, VPC, SLAs, dedicated support.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Supabase vs payg on Together AI.
| Metric | Supabase | Together AI |
|---|---|---|
| bandwidth gb | 5 GB/month | — |
| db storage gb | 0.5 GB | — |
| edge invocations | 500000 invocations/month | — |
| file storage gb | 1 GB | — |
| mau | 50000 users/month | — |
| realtime messages | 2000000 messages/month | — |
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…
Together AI · 14 features
- Audio (ASR + TTS) — Whisper Large v3 + Cartesia Sonic-3.
- Batch API — 50% discount for async processing.
- Code Interpreter — LLM with integrated code execution.
- Code Sandbox — Secure Python execution environment.
- Dedicated Endpoints — Single-tenant GPU endpoints for consistent latency.
- Embeddings — BGE + nomic + mxbai embedding models.
- Fine-Tuning — LoRA + full fine-tune + DPO on Llama, Qwen, Mistral.
- Image Generation — FLUX.2, SD3, Ideogram, etc.
- OpenAI-Compat API — Drop-in OpenAI SDK replacement.
- Private Deploy — Dedicated tenant + VPC.
- Reranker — Rerank model for RAG retrieval refinement.
- Reserved Clusters — Discounted GPU clusters for committed use.
- Serverless Inference — 200+ open models. OpenAI-compatible API.
- Video Generation — Veo 3.0, Kling 2.1, Vidu 2.0.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Supabase | Together AI |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Supabase CLI | Together CLI |
| SDK | C# SDK, Flutter SDK, JavaScript SDK, Kotlin SDK, Python SDK, Swift SDK | together-js, together-python |
| REST | Management API, REST API (PostgREST) | Code Sandbox / Interpreter, Dedicated Endpoints, Together REST API (OpenAI-compat) |
| GRAPHQL | GraphQL (pg_graphql) | — |
| MCP | Supabase MCP Server | — |
| OTHER | Realtime (WebSocket) | — |
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