PlanetScale Review 2026
The world's fastest and most scalable cloud databases
What is PlanetScale?
The world's fastest and most scalable cloud database platform for Vitess (MySQL) and Postgres, with NVMe-backed performance and horizontal sharding. Offers branching, online schema changes, observability and enterprise-grade security.
Best for
Enterprise
Use cases
- Scalable databases
- High-traffic apps
- Database management
Key features
Vitess and Postgres hosting
Horizontal sharding
Branching and deploy requests
Online schema changes
Observability
Pricing
Model
contact-sales
Price range
Custom quotes; AWS/GCP Marketplace
Free tier
No
Integrations
PlanetScale integrates with 5 tools including:
FivetranAirbyteHightouchDatadogDebezium
Companies hiring for PlanetScale experience
- Remote US RemoteMarketing$170K – 220K
- Remote US RemoteMarketing$150K – 200K
- USCustomer Engineering$150K – 200K
- San Francisco Sales
- EMEA or NACustomer Engineering
- Remote - EMEA, Remote - NARemoteSales$160K – 250K
- San Francisco and/or US RemoteRemoteMarketing$130K – 200K
- Remote - NA, APAC, EMEARemoteCustomer Engineering$120K – 200K
- San Francisco, CAMarketing$160K – 210K
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