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PlanetScale
Named in 32 of 50 AI answers across 1 category in September 2026. Best position: Databases for startups, 64% answer share, ranked #5, named first in 0%.
64%
Best share Databases for startups
What PlanetScale is
PlanetScale provides managed cloud databases for Postgres and Vitess. It is built for Tier 0 database workloads, with PlanetScale Postgres starting at $5 per month and PlanetScale Metal starting at $50 per month.
PlanetScale provides managed PostgreSQL clusters on NVMe-backed infrastructure. Its high-availability clusters use automatic failover across three availability zones. It supports database branching, replicas and automated backups. For MySQL workloads, Vitess scales databases through explicit sharding.
By category
First edition
| Category | Rank | Answer share | Named first | Models | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Databases for startupsStartup stack | #5 of 17 | 0% | GPT-5.6 Sol, ChatGPT, GPT-5.6 Luna, Claude Opus 5, Claude, Claude Fable 5, Gemini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity, Sonar Reasoning Pro | new |
What the models said
“Choose PlanetScale if your team already uses MySQL or you care most about MySQL-compatible scaling and operational simplicity.”
“Choose PlanetScale if you are building an app where high uptime, zero-downtime schema changes, and scale are your primary worries.”
“PlanetScale: consider it for MySQL/Vitess-oriented workloads where horizontal database scaling is a central requirement.”
“Pick PlanetScale if schema stability, high concurrency, and uptime are your primary concerns.”
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