Supabase

Supabase is a development platform built around PostgreSQL. Every project provisions a dedicated Postgres database, packaged with authentication and authorization (using Postgres Row Level Security and JWTs), auto-generated REST and GraphQL data APIs, file storage, realtime data synchronization over websockets, serverless Edge Functions, and vector/embedding storage and search for AI and machine-learning workloads. Additional platform capabilities include a dashboard with a table editor, SQL editor and RLS policy management, database branching tied to git branches, read replicas, cron jobs, queues, security and performance advisors, and a CLI for local development and deployment.

The platform is assembled from open-source components: Postgres itself, an Elixir-based Realtime server, PostgREST for REST APIs, GoTrue for authentication, a Storage API backed by S3 with Postgres-managed permissions, pg_graphql, postgres-meta, and Envoy as an edge proxy. The company describes its approach as building the feature set of Firebase using enterprise-grade open-source tools, adopting existing permissively licensed projects where they exist and open-sourcing new ones where they do not. Supabase can be used as a hosted service, self-hosted, or run locally. Official client libraries are maintained for JavaScript/TypeScript, Flutter, Swift, Python, and Kotlin, with community libraries for C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust and GDScript, plus framework quickstarts for React, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Astro, Expo, Laravel, Ruby on Rails and others.

Supabase has positioned itself as a backend for AI-assisted ("vibe") coding: it is used alongside tools such as Cursor and Claude Code, exposes an MCP server, and is the default backend on AI app-building platforms including Lovable and Bolt. In 2026 the company previewed Multigres, an enterprise-scale version of the platform intended for large, data-intensive workloads.

Founding story

CEO Paul Copplestone first pitched the concept to an investor in 2014 without success. Six years later, after encountering database scaling limits at another startup, he built tooling around Postgres and released it publicly in 2020; its rapid popularity prompted him to found the company that year with CTO Ant Wilson.

Business model

Supabase operates an open-source core with a commercial managed cloud platform, sold via self-serve subscription tiers and enterprise contracts. Users may also self-host the open-source stack at no license cost.

Tiered subscriptions plus usage-based billing. A Free plan ($0/month) covers small projects; the Pro plan starts at $25/month with metered overages (e.g. $0.00325 per monthly active user beyond 100,000, $0.125/GB disk beyond 8 GB, $0.09/GB egress beyond 250 GB, $0.0213/GB file storage beyond 100 GB); the Team plan starts at $599/month adding SSO, SOC2/ISO 27001, longer backup retention and priority support; Enterprise pricing is custom. Compute is billed hourly per project by instance size ($10/month Micro up to $3,730/month 16XL, with $10/month of compute credits on paid plans), and add-ons include custom domains (from $100/month), point-in-time recovery, log drains ($60 per drain per project) and advanced disk configurations.

Traction

Over 4 million developers and more than 100,000 customers as of October 2025, rising to over 250,000 customers and 350 employees as of June 2026. Users include Lovable, Bolt, Figma, PwC, McDonald's, GitHub Next, eXp Realty (2,000+ employees building with Supabase), Phoenix Energy and Chatbase, which the company says scaled to $10M ARR on the platform. Over 50% of a recent Y Combinator batch used Supabase. AI coding tools generate the majority of databases created on the platform, with Claude Code the largest contributor in 2026.

Latest developments

On 2026-06-04 Supabase announced a $500 million Series F at a $10.5 billion post-money valuation led by GIC, with participation from Accel, Y Combinator, Craft, Felicis, Coatue and Stripe. Alongside the round it announced the preview of Multigres, a tool intended to let applications built on Supabase scale to very large workloads. The company reported 250,000+ customers and 350 employees at that time.