PlanetScale
Unclaimed • Databases
The world's fastest and most scalable cloud databases.
Vitess and Postgres on bare-metal NVMe with unlimited IOPS — the database infrastructure trusted by Slack, GitHub, Cursor, HubSpot, and Cash App.
Value Proposition
Bare-metal NVMe performance and Vitess-powered horizontal sharding delivering the fastest, most scalable cloud database infrastructure available.
Problem Solved
Solves the performance ceiling of traditional cloud databases for high-traffic, data-intensive workloads that need millions of queries per second across hundreds of terabytes.
Target Audience
Engineering teams, enterprises, and high-growth startups running Tier 0 production databases that require extreme performance, horizontal scalability, and enterprise-grade reliability.
Business Details
Pricing
Scaler
From $39/month
For production apps needing dedicated performance.
Enterprise
Custom pricing
For large-scale workloads with compliance and custom deployment needs.
Life Without vs. With PlanetScale
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Questions & Answers
Vitess is an open-source database clustering system for MySQL that enables horizontal sharding — splitting data across many database nodes — to scale to petabytes of data and millions of queries per second. It was originally built at YouTube and is now maintained by PlanetScale. It powers databases at Slack, GitHub, HubSpot, and many other large-scale companies.
