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estimated operating bill

What does Supabase
cost to run?

Hosted Postgres platform with auth, storage, realtime and edge functions.

MODELED RANGE€700k–€3.2m/momodeled
build time3–5 years
initial team180–550 people
categoryDeveloper tools
statuseditorial estimate
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estimated infrastructure receipt

monthly recurring run cost

€700k–€3.2m/mo
isolated customer databases€322k–€1.5m
storage and egress€203k–€928k
realtime and edge compute€119k–€544k
baseline hosting, monitoring and backups€56.0k–€256k
the modeled take

Supabase is modeled from its public product surface, documented architecture where available, current pricing, and the operational demands implied by its major features. The range is an editorial estimate—not a leaked invoice or a claim from Supabase.

The largest cost pressure comes from isolated customer databases, storage and egress, realtime and edge compute. Build-time assumes a production product with authentication, billing, observability, security, responsive clients and the core workflow represented honestly—not a visual clone.

Infrastructure can vary dramatically with negotiated contracts, caching, region, reliability targets and customer behavior. Use the itemized receipt and assumptions to challenge the estimate. Founders can submit a correction or verify their real range without publishing sensitive vendor contracts.

from prototype to public scale

How the bill grows.

Same product class, different usage. This is directional—not a pricing quote.

stageusage assumptionmonthly estimate
lean / early product1k–10k users€10.5k–€80.0k
growing product50k–250k users€84.0k–€704k
modeled current classpublic-scale model€700k–€3.2m
assumptions

Where this could be wrong.

  1. Open-source components reveal architecture, not hosted utilization
  2. Customer database sizes drive a wide range
evidence desk

Public sources used.

01Supabase source codeopen ↗02Supabase architecture docsopen ↗
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