Pick Nile if
b2B app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (50 million query tokens, 1 GB) while they open a first Tenants list, then buy Pro at $15 / month when they want 150 million tokens, 5 GB, and the 99.95% SLA.
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Our take
Pick Nile if b2B app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (50 million query tokens, 1 GB) while they open a first Tenants list, then buy Pro at $15 / month when they want 150 million tokens, 5 GB, and the 99.95% SLA. Pick PlanetScale if app teams who will start Base at $5/month (single-node Postgres) or $30/month (PS-10 arm64 HA in us-east-1) while they open a first Cluster configuration screen, then add $5 PS-DEV
PlanetScale
branching database desk
Best for
Nile Tenant-isolated Postgres you start at $0
PlanetScale A cluster you start at $5 / $30
Free plan
Nile $0 · no pauses. 50 million query tokens, then $0.06 per million. 1 GB storage, then $1.50 / GB. 500 connections. Unlimited databases, tenant DBs, embeddings, users, tenants. Community support. Tenant insights 1 day
PlanetScale No free plan
Lowest paid
Nile Usage meters on the calculator we fetched $1.00
PlanetScale Storage overage $0.50
Next step up
Nile Pro $15
PlanetScale Postgres single-node $5/mo
Runs where
Nile Hosted
PlanetScale
Watch out
Nile Free is 50 million query tokens and 1 GB
PlanetScale There is no $0 Hobby card
Last checked
Nile 2026-10-23 · thenile.dev/pricing
PlanetScale 2026-10-23 · planetscale.com/pricing.md
Which one, then?
Pick PlanetScale if
app teams who will start Base at $5/month (single-node Postgres) or $30/month (PS-10 arm64 HA in us-east-1) while they open a first Cluster configuration screen, then add $5 PS-DEV branches or extra production SKUs when they need a deploy-request workflow.
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