Does Supabase have a startup credits program?
Not on Supabase's own pages today. Its startups page describes the product and gives no credit amount, eligibility rule or application, and its pricing page lists a Free plan and paid Pro and Team plans.
Supabase's credits documentation describes a credit balance on each organization that pays invoices before your card is charged. It names two ways a balance gets credits: a top-up you buy yourself, or “an upfront credits deal with our growth team”. It publishes no amount or eligibility for that deal.
Self-serve top-ups are capped at $2000 each. Supabase says these credits do not expire and are non-refundable, so they are prepaid spend, not a free grant.
Source: Supabase startups page (supabase.com/startups), Supabase pricing page (supabase.com/pricing), Supabase credits docs (supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/credits)
What does the Supabase Free plan include?
The Free plan costs $0 a month and includes unlimited API requests, 50,000 monthly active users, a 500 MB database, shared CPU with 500 MB RAM, 5 GB egress, 5 GB cached egress, 1 GB file storage and community support.
It needs no application and no card to start: the pricing page's button for it reads Start for Free.
Source: Supabase pricing page (supabase.com/pricing)
Does Supabase pause free projects?
Yes. Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity, and the Free plan has a limit of 2 active projects. Supabase says paid projects cannot be paused.
Supabase says it sends a warning email roughly a week before a pause takes effect, and you can prevent the pause by visiting the project in the Dashboard or sending API calls to it.
A paused project can be restored from the Dashboard for up to 1 year after it was paused. Upgrading to the Pro Plan is Supabase's own advice for avoiding automatic pausing.
Source: Supabase pricing page (supabase.com/pricing), Supabase project pausing docs (supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/free-project-pausing)
How much does Supabase cost after the Free plan?
Pro is from $25 a month with the first project included and extra projects from $10 a month. Team, which adds SSO, backup control and industry certifications, is from $599 a month.
Pro adds 100,000 monthly active users, 8 GB disk size per project, 250 GB egress, email support and daily backups stored for 7 days. Paid plans include $10 a month in compute credits, enough to cover one Micro instance.
Supabase says the Pro plan has a spend cap enabled by default to keep costs under control, and you can switch it off to pay for resources beyond the plan's included quota.
Source: Supabase pricing page (supabase.com/pricing)
Is Supabase good for startups?
Supabase pitches itself that way: its startups page promises “a full-featured, scalable backend based on Postgres” that you can launch in minutes and scale to millions. What it offers a startup is the standard Free plan and paid plans, with no startup-only terms published.
The page lists auth, storage, edge functions, real-time and vector search as one suite, and says it is “SOC 2 Type II certified”. Whether it fits your product is a technical call the page cannot make for you.
Source: Supabase startups page (supabase.com/startups)
