Supabase

What Supabase does

Supabase, Inc. is a San Francisco-based, privately-held software company founded in 2020 by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson that operates an open-source Postgres development platform. The product is a unified backend-as-a-service combining a dedicated PostgreSQL database, authentication, S3-compatible storage, realtime WebSocket subscriptions, serverless edge functions on Deno, and vector search via pgvector — all exposed through auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs. The architecture combines open-source components (PostgREST, GoTrue, Realtime on Phoenix/Elixir) with proprietary platform features including an official Anthropic Claude MCP connector, branching, read replicas, and the newly released Multigres horizontal-scaling layer for Postgres. The platform also carries enterprise certifications (SOC2 Type 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA add-on) and runs across 17+ AWS regions.

The business model is a tiered SaaS subscription (Free, Pro from $25/month, Team from $599/month, custom Enterprise) with usage-based compute add-ons such as branching, point-in-time recovery, and log drains. Distribution is product-led: developers self-serve at supabase.com, with an enterprise field-sales overlay for SOC2/SSO/HIPAA deals, an AWS Marketplace co-sell via Clazar generating 350% YoY growth, and integrations with Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face. The company reports over 250,000 customers and 9 million developers as of June 2026, with revenue of $70M in 2025, up from $14.8M in 2024.

Strategically, Supabase has raised more than $1 billion across eight rounds, most recently a $500M Series F led by GIC at a $10.5B post-money valuation in June 2026. The platform has become the default backend for AI coding agents: Claude Code and OpenAI Codex now deploy the majority of databases, driving 600% year-over-year database growth. Acquisitions of Hydra and BKND in February 2026 and the launch of Multigres for AI-scale workloads indicate a deliberate push into enterprise infrastructure. The company faces a material geographic risk after India's Section 69A blocking order in February 2026 cut off a market that represented roughly 9% of global traffic.

Name

Supabase

Legal name

Supabase, Inc.

Website

https://supabase.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Supabase is an open-source Postgres development platform offering a unified backend-as-a-service (database, auth, storage, realtime, edge functions, vector search) for application developers, serving over 250,000 customers and 9 million developers globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Database Platform

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise PaaS (App Runtime & Managed Application Platforms) (HDAEAKAB)

Keywords

• Managed postgresql database
• Backend as a service
• Open source database platform
• Cloud database platform
• Developer backend platform

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Revenue model

1. Subscription SaaS (Cloud Platform): Supabase operates a tiered SaaS subscription model (Free, Pro, Team, Enterprise) where customers pay monthly for hosted database projects with compute add-ons. Free tier provides limited resources; paid plans scale compute, storage, MAU limits, and features. Revenue scales with usage as customers grow from side projects to production applications.
2. Compute Add-ons (Usage-based): Customers can add additional compute instances, branching, point-in-time recovery, log drains, advanced MFA, custom domains, image transformations, pipelines, and other capabilities on top of base plans. Point-in-time recovery starts at $100/month per project; branching is $0.01344 per branch per hour; log drains are $60 per drain per month plus per-event and egress fees.
3. AWS Marketplace Co-sell: Supabase expanded its enterprise go-to-market through AWS Marketplace via Clazar, enabling AWS customers to purchase and deploy Supabase projects through AWS infrastructure. This creates a marketplace revenue stream and cross-platform distribution.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Supabase is an open-source Postgres development platform that provides a managed PostgreSQL database together with authentication, instant REST and GraphQL APIs, serverless Edge Functions, S3-compatible object storage, real-time WebSocket subscriptions, and pgvector-based vector embeddings. The platform is sold as a tiered SaaS subscription with a free self-serve tier and paid Pro, Team, and Enterprise plans, enabling developers to build and scale full-stack applications without managing backend infrastructure.

Product overview

Supabase is a Postgres development platform offering a unified backend-as-a-service with a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core platform includes a dedicated PostgreSQL database with auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs, Auth (authentication with social logins, MFA, and SSO), Edge Functions (serverless TypeScript/JavaScript), Storage (S3-compatible with CDN and image transformations), and Realtime (WebSocket-based data sync). Integrated modules include Vector (pgvector-powered semantic search and RAG), Cron (scheduled jobs), Queues (message processing), and Pipelines (data replication). Enterprise features include PrivateLink, Read Replicas, and advanced compliance options. The platform is designed for rapid development (Build in a weekend, scale to millions) with strong AI agent integration, including an official Claude connector and support for vibe coding workflows where AI tools like Claude Code autonomously deploy databases.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 600% year-over-year database growth driven by AI coding tool adoption (Claude Code, Codex)
• +10 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability9 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Clazar (AWS Marketplace)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 19 May 2026Clazar enables Supabase's AWS Marketplace operations, providing co-sell infrastructure and marketplace management. Through this partnership, Supabase achieved 350% YoY AWS co-sell growth and 80% reduction in marketplace operations effort.
• Stripe ProjectscoreTechnology or Integration · 26 March 2026Supabase joined the Stripe Projects developer preview — a CLI tool enabling developers to create full application stacks with hosting, database (Supabase), identity auth, analytics, and AI components. Supabase is one of 10+ integrations including Vercel, Railway, Neon, PlanetScale, Turso, Chroma, PostHog, Clerk.
• AnthropiccoreTechnology or Integration · 12 February 2026Supabase is an official Claude connector and MCP server, enabling Anthropic's Claude Code to autonomously plan database schemas, write migration scripts, and configure security policies. AI agents like Claude Code now deploy the majority of databases on Supabase's platform, driving 600% YoY growth.
• OpenAIcoreTechnology or Integration · 14 January 2026Supabase integrates with OpenAI for GPT text completions in Edge Functions and supports OpenAI's Codex for AI-assisted coding. OpenAI Codex is one of the primary AI coding tools driving database creation on Supabase's platform.
• Hugging FacecoreTechnology or Integration · 14 January 2026Supabase Vector integrates with Hugging Face for embedding generation and model inference, enabling AI applications. The Edge Functions support Hugging Face Inference API for 100,000+ ML models.
• AWS Kiro PowerscoreTechnology or Integration · 4 December 2025Supabase partnered with AWS at re:Invent 2025 to create Kiro powers — optimized configurations enabling AI coding assistants to efficiently interact with Supabase tools. This makes Supabase a first-class tool within the AWS Kiro AI coding environment, with plans to expand to Cursor, Cline, and Claude Code.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or Integration · 3 December 2025Supabase integrated Amazon S3 for analytics and AI features, supporting database creation across 17 AWS regions. At AWS re:Invent 2025, Supabase and AWS announced new storage and data integration features for app developers. Supabase also joined AWS Marketplace for enterprise co-sell, achieving 350% YoY co-sell growth via Clazar.
• DenocoreTechnology or Integration · 25 April 2025Supabase Edge Functions are built on the Deno runtime (open-source JavaScript/TypeScript runtime), which runs identically locally and in production. Deno provides the runtime infrastructure for Supabase's serverless function platform.
• LovablecoreTechnology or Integration · 2 January 2025Lovable, the fastest-growing AI app builder ($6.6B valuation, $200M+ ARR), uses Supabase as its backend infrastructure platform. Lovable's AI generates full-stack apps using Supabase for database, auth, and storage, making Supabase a foundational component of Lovable's product.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights8 records

Others

• Pinecone: Pinecone is a dedicated vector database competing with Supabase's pgvector-based Vector offering. While Supabase is winning consolidation share (e.g., Firecrawl migrated from Pinecone), Pinecone remains a viable specialized alternative for vector-heavy workloads.

Emerging players

• Appwrite: Appwrite is an open-source backend-as-a-service platform offering database, auth, storage, and functions. It is positioned as another Firebase alternative with self-hosting options, competing with Supabase for OSS-minded developers.
• Convex: Convex is a TypeScript-native backend platform offering a reactive database, auth, and server functions. It targets the same AI-coding-tool developer audience as Supabase with a more opinionated TypeScript-first experience.
• Railway: Railway is a PaaS offering instant deployment of databases and applications. It overlaps with Supabase's self-serve developer positioning and is also integrated into Stripe Projects alongside Supabase.

Direct peers

• Neon: Neon is a serverless Postgres provider with branching and autoscaling, directly competing for the same developer audience as Supabase. Both target AI-native and PLG developer workflows with Postgres foundations.
• Firebase: Google's Firebase is Supabase's primary direct competitor, offering a similar backend-as-a-service stack (database, auth, storage, functions). Supabase explicitly positions itself as the open-source Postgres-based alternative to Firebase.
• MongoDB Atlas: MongoDB Atlas is a managed document database with built-in auth, serverless functions, and vector search. It competes with Supabase for application backend workloads, particularly for teams preferring document over relational models.
• PlanetScale: PlanetScale offers a serverless MySQL platform with branching and zero-downtime schema changes. It competes with Supabase for scalable, developer-friendly managed database backends, though PlanetScale is MySQL-based.

Broad incumbents

• Vercel: Vercel is a frontend cloud platform that integrates deeply with Supabase (via Postgres + Edge) but also competes for the developer platform relationship with services like Vercel KV and Blob, indirectly threatening Supabase's full-stack positioning.
• AWS Amplify: AWS Amplify is a broad cloud incumbent offering hosted backend services (GraphQL APIs, auth, storage) integrated with the AWS ecosystem. It competes with Supabase for enterprise workloads where AWS-native is preferred.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/supabase
• GitHubgithub.com/supabase
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/supabase
• Instagraminstagram.com/supabasecom
• TikToktiktok.com/@supabase.com
• Facebookfacebook.com/supabaseDev
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/supabase

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds8 records

Investors22 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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