Data note
PlanetScale Postgres pricing in 2026: $5 single node to $4,529 HA
The full PlanetScale Postgres price ladder: 10 SKUs, arm64 against x86-64, single node against 3-node HA, and what is billed on top.
A single-node PlanetScale Postgres cluster starts at $5/month for 512 MiB of RAM, and the same SKU with high availability (one primary plus two replicas across three availability zones) costs $15/month — exactly three times the single-node rate at every tier up to PS-2560 at $4,529/month.
- PlanetScale Postgres PS-5 single node (1/16 vCPU, 512 MiB) costs $5/month on both arm64 and x86-64 (checked 2026-10-25).
- The same PS-5 SKU in 3-node HA costs $15/month, which is exactly 3x the single-node price (checked 2026-10-25).
- PS-20 single node is $17/month on arm64 and $20/month on x86-64; in HA the two architectures are $50 and $59 (checked 2026-10-25).
- The largest SKU, PS-2560 (32 vCPU, 256 GiB), is $1,510/month on arm64 and $1,867/month on x86-64 single node; HA is $4,529 and $5,599 respectively (checked 2026-10-25).
- Storage, backup storage, egress and optional dedicated PgBouncer are billed separately from the compute SKU rate (checked 2026-10-25).
- Prices in the catalog are quoted for AWS us-east-1 and change by region and cloud provider (checked 2026-10-25).
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On this page
PlanetScale sells Postgres in fixed sizes, and the size table is public in a machine-readable file, so the arithmetic needs no calculator: a single-node cluster starts at $5 a month, the same SKU with three nodes costs $15, and the price ladder runs to $4,529 for 32 vCPU with high availability. What the SKU price does not include is storage, backups and egress — and that is where a monthly bill gets decided.
The Postgres price ladder
All prices are monthly, in USD, from PlanetScale's published catalog for AWS us-east-1.
| SKU | vCPU / RAM | Single node, arm64 | Single node, x86-64 | 3-node HA, arm64 | 3-node HA, x86-64 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS-5 | 1/16 · 512 MiB | $5 | $5 | $15 | $15 |
| PS-10 | 1/8 · 1 GiB | $10 | $13 | $30 | $39 |
| PS-20 | 1/4 · 2 GiB | $17 | $20 | $50 | $59 |
| PS-40 | 1/2 · 4 GiB | $28 | $33 | $83 | $99 |
| PS-80 | 1 · 8 GiB | $50 | $60 | $148 | $179 |
| PS-160 | 2 · 16 GiB | $96 | $117 | $286 | $349 |
| PS-320 | 4 · 32 GiB | $190 | $233 | $570 | $699 |
| PS-640 | 8 · 64 GiB | $379 | $467 | $1,135 | $1,399 |
| PS-1280 | 16 · 128 GiB | $755 | $933 | $2,265 | $2,799 |
| PS-2560 | 32 · 256 GiB | $1,510 | $1,867 | $4,529 | $5,599 |
What the numbers actually mean
High availability is priced as three machines, because it is three machines: one primary and two replicas spread across three availability zones. Every row above reproduces that exactly — $5 becomes $15, $755 becomes $2,265, $1,510 becomes $4,529 — so there is no discount for buying the redundant topology, and no hidden premium either (calculated 2026-10-25).
The architecture column is the other lever. arm64 and x86-64 cost the same at PS-5, then diverge: 30% more for x86-64 at PS-10 ($13 against $10) and 23.6% more at PS-2560 ($1,867 against $1,510). If a workload is not architecture-bound, the arm64 column is simply cheaper at every size above the entry SKU.
How we measured it
We read PlanetScale's own catalog file on 2026-10-25 at 14:49:57Z, which is generated from the same price source as the pricing page and states its basis: AWS us-east-1. We did not run a database, and we did not query the read-only Postgres endpoint PlanetScale publishes for live prices, so figures are the published list rates rather than a regional quote.
What changes in practice
The SKU rate is compute only. The pricing page lists the rest as separate factors: storage and provisioned IOPS, backup storage, network egress, a dedicated PgBouncer, and extra development branch hours. That means two clusters with the same $50 line item can bill very differently, and the difference is usually storage and egress rather than CPU.
Region matters too. The catalog's own caveat is that prices are based on AWS us-east-1 and vary by cloud and region, so a workload placed in Europe or on GCP should be priced in the console rather than from this table. Metal instances invert one of the assumptions: local NVMe storage is included in the SKU rate instead of billed as EBS.
For capacity planning, the useful reading is price per GiB of RAM: $9.77 per GiB at PS-5 single node, $5.90 at PS-2560 on arm64 (calculated 2026-10-25). Small clusters are expensive per gigabyte, which is the normal shape of a fixed-size ladder.
Bottom line
If you need a Postgres database that is cheap to start and predictable to scale, PS-5 at $5/month or PS-10 at $10/month on arm64 covers development and low-traffic production; budget for the 3× step to HA at $15 and $30 the moment the data matters, and price storage and egress separately before comparing the total against a bundled plan.
Frequently asked questions
What is the cheapest PlanetScale Postgres plan?
$5/month for PS-5: 1/16 vCPU, 512 MiB of RAM, single node. The same size with three replicas across three availability zones is $15/month.
Is arm64 cheaper than x86-64?
Yes, from PS-10 upward: $10 against $13 at PS-10, and $1,510 against $1,867 at PS-2560, so the gap widens with size. PS-5 costs $5 on both.
What does the monthly SKU price include?
Compute only. Storage (EBS), backup storage, network egress, dedicated PgBouncer and extra development branch hours are priced separately.
Do prices change by region?
Yes. The published catalog is based on AWS us-east-1 and states that actual prices vary by cloud provider and region.
Sources
- PlanetScale pricing catalog (machine-readable)Checked 2026-10-25; catalog generated 2026-10-25T14:49:57Z
- PlanetScale pricingChecked 2026-10-25
Cite this page
Nadia Voss (2026). “PlanetScale Postgres pricing in 2026: $5 single node to $4,529 HA”. Actual Database. https://actualdatabase.com/planetscale-postgres-pricing-per-month/