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Alternatives to PlanetScale

4 Serverless & Developer Databases rivals, ranked by the same evidence-graded leaderboard — PlanetScale itself ranks #4 with a PA Score of 35/100. Every “beats PlanetScale on” below comes from a judged head-to-head round with cited evidence — see the methodology.

  1. #1ClickHouse logo
    ClickHouse

    ClickHouse, Inc.

    PA Score 41/100vs PlanetScale →
    coverage
    34.6/100

    Beats PlanetScale on: Run the same engine locally and keylessly — no account or cloud dependency — for offline development and CI tests · Self-host the core product

  2. #2Neon logo
    Neon

    Neon (Databricks)

    PA Score 38/100vs PlanetScale →
    coverage
    42.5/100

    Beats PlanetScale on: Idle databases scale to zero so prototypes and side projects cost nothing while the data stays durable · Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)

  3. #3Turso logo
    Turso

    Turso, Inc.

    PA Score 37/100vs PlanetScale →
    coverage
    38.2/100

    Beats PlanetScale on: Run the same engine locally and keylessly — no account or cloud dependency — for offline development and CI tests · Build against official SDKs

  4. #5CockroachDB logo
    CockroachDB

    Cockroach Labs

    PA Score 30/100vs PlanetScale →
    coverage
    29.8/100

    Beats PlanetScale on: Run the same engine locally and keylessly — no account or cloud dependency — for offline development and CI tests · Self-host the core product

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