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Should you build your own Supabase Pro?

Self-host a Postgres backend with auth, storage, and a small API surface

With trade-offs · the basics, with limitations
Price $25/moEstimated savings $300/yrEstimated time closest consolation build: multi-dayCategory HostingCatalog votes 0

The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a real weekend or multi-day project. For Supabase Pro, self-host a Postgres backend with auth, storage, and a small API surface. The hard boundary is managed postgres, backups, auth delivery, storage, edge functions, observability, and support, plus infrastructure scale, operations, and reliability.

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The complete prompt
Build a personal replacement for Supabase Pro in an empty repository.
Use Docker Compose, Caddy, PostgreSQL, Redis, and a small Go control plane; do not offer alternative stacks.
The core loop is: self-host a containerized Postgres backend with auth, storage, and a small API surface, route domains, retain logs, and perform backups on one user-owned server.
Make the first run work locally with one documented command.
Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward.
Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials.
Accept a Git repository or container image and one explicit Dockerfile-based build path.
Implement applications, environments, secrets, domains, health checks, and rolling container replacement.
Use Caddy for automatic TLS and route only to healthy local containers.
Capture bounded build and runtime logs and expose restart, rollback, and redeploy actions.
Back up PostgreSQL metadata and document backups for each deployed application's data volumes.
Add host metrics, disk alerts, update instructions, disaster recovery, and a prominent single-server warning.
Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states.
Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs.
Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path.
Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps.
Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane.
Deliberately leave out multi-region or serverless infrastructure.
Deliberately leave out managed data stores and global edge delivery.
Deliberately leave out DDoS response, compliance, and guaranteed uptime.
Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used.

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Original prompt preserved in English.

What would building your own look like?

Self-host a containerized Postgres backend with auth, storage, and a small API surface, route domains, retain logs, and perform backups on one user-owned server.

What you will need

Why paying can still make sense

People still pay for Supabase Pro because hosting products sell an operations team and failure-domain diversity, not merely a deploy button. The recurring cost buys patching, certificates, isolation, secrets, builds, deploys, logs, metrics, backups, capacity, incidents, and security response, not just the visible interface.

What you lose

xmanaged Postgres, backups, auth delivery, storage, edge functions, observability, and support

xglobal edge network

xmanaged databases

xautoscaling

xDDoS protection, support, and compliance

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Free alternatives

Prefer something ready-made?

SupabaseThe actual Postgres, Auth, Storage, Realtime, Functions, and API stack; free software, decidedly non-free operations.108kAug 2026Open source↗PocketBaseA drastically smaller substitute for one app: auth, files, realtime, API, and database in one binary, with no functions runtime.59kMay 2026Open source↗AppwriteA similarly complete backend console with auth, data, files, realtime, and functions; the database is not Postgres.57kAug 2026Open source↗

View all 4 alternatives to Supabase Pro →· Licença, instalação e limitações em cada alternativa.

Plans and pricing

How much does Supabase Pro cost?

In your currency · US DollarChecked on 10/20/2026
Monthly billing
$25/mo
Per year
$300/yr
Buy on the official site

You complete the purchase on Supabase Pro’s site. Vibe Radar does not handle payments.

PlanMonthlyAnnual (per month)What is included
free$0/workspace-2 active projects; 50,000 MAU; 500 MB database/project; 1 GB storage; 5 GB egress + 5 GB cached egress; 2 million Realtime messages
pro$25/workspace-100,000 MAU; 8 GB database disk/project; 100 GB storage; 250 GB egress + 250 GB cached egress; 7-day backups/log retention
team$599/workspace-Pro usage allowances plus team controls, SSO, audit logs and longer operational support features
enterprisecustom-Custom usage, support, compliance and deployment terms

Free tier2 active projects; 50,000 MAU; 500 MB database/project; 1 GB file storage; 5 GB egress + 5 GB cached egress; 50 MB maximum file; 200 Realtime connections; 2 million Realtime messages; 500,000 Edge Function invocations

Billing termsmonthly self-serve billing; no public annual self-serve price shown

Additional costsThe $25 Pro fee is not the whole bill: each project consumes compute after the included $10 credit; overages include MAU, storage, egress, database disk, Realtime, Edge Functions and image transforms; paid add-ons include custom domains ($10/month), PITR (from $100/month), phone MFA and log drains

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Build or buy

Is it cheaper to build or buy Supabase Pro?

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Build it yourself
Horizon
Subscribe$600
Build it yourself$3,320

Over 24 months, subscribing is cheaper.

Starting hours estimated from the analysis (closest consolation build: multi-day). Does not price what you give up (support, integrations, security).

Frequently asked questions
Can I rebuild Supabase Pro?

Kinda. The core of Supabase Pro is buildable in a weekend with the prompt on this page, but there are real gaps: managed Postgres, backups, auth delivery, storage, edge functions, observability, and support, global edge network. Read the honest list above before committing.

How much does Supabase Pro cost?

Supabase Pro costs about $25/mo (Pro, checked 10/20/2026), which is $300 per year.

What do I lose by replacing Supabase Pro?

Honestly: managed Postgres, backups, auth delivery, storage, edge functions, observability, and support; global edge network; managed databases; autoscaling; DDoS protection, support, and compliance. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.

Is there an open-source alternative to Supabase Pro?

Yes: Supabase (The actual Postgres, Auth, Storage, Realtime, Functions, and API stack; free software, decidedly non-free operations.) PocketBase (A drastically smaller substitute for one app: auth, files, realtime, API, and database in one binary, with no functions runtime.) Appwrite (A similarly complete backend console with auth, data, files, realtime, and functions; the database is not Postgres.) All 4 curated free alternatives are at https://viberadar.si/supabase-pro/alternatives. The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.

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