$5 PlanetScale is live
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·November 16, 2025kikkia
Hearing a $5 tier on planetscale was cool and I was thinking about using it for a future project, but those specs are just way too low to be worth it for $5/mo. I think I will just get a $5/mo vps with 32x the CPU (probably more as this is 2 x86 cpu cores vs 1/16 arm) and 8x the ram for the same price. The stats, insights and dashboards are cool, but for hobbyist projects that's too steep for the specs you get in my opinion.
7moritz7
5 bucks gets you 8gb ram 4 vcpu 75gb nvme at contabo actually
i know this is apples and oranges but that's 16 times the ram
normie3000
What is planetscale? A postgres PaaS?
gnabgib
Related: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases (233 points, 16 days ago, 169 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761027
What are the limitations of the $5 Postgres instances?