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  "slug": "planetscale",
  "name": "PlanetScale",
  "url": "https://planetscale.com",
  "cat": "backend",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Managed MySQL and Postgres at scale",
  "price": "$5 single node databases available for development, prototyping, and small projects. NVMe-backed performance starts at $50 per month.",
  "tier": "paid",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Vitess-based managed MySQL, plus a Postgres offering added in 2025, aimed at horizontal scaling with online schema changes and branch-based deploy requests. There is no free tier — it was removed in 2024. Metal instances use local NVMe drives with unlimited IOPS starting around $50 monthly.",
  "why": "Reached for when a vibe-coded prototype gets real traffic and needs a database that will not fall over under load. The $5 single-node Postgres tier finally makes it approachable for a solo builder.",
  "warn": "No free tier at all — you pay from day one, which rules it out for throwaway experiments. The MySQL side historically disallows foreign key constraints under Vitess, which trips up ORM-generated schemas.",
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  "category": {
    "key": "backend",
    "name": "Databases & backend",
    "desc": "Where your data lives. Free-tier pausing behaviour is the field to read.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
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    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://planetscale.com/",
    "checked_at": "2026-10-02T17:30:08.172+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": "2026-09-12T05:00:07.661+00:00",
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}