# PlanetScale

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/planetscale
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/planetscale.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/planetscale/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://planetscale.com
- **Slug:** planetscale
- **Categories:** cloud-infrastructure, developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** The only platform that combines the ease of serverless developer workflows (branching, merging) with the proven horizontal sharding power of Vitess and NVMe-backed bare metal performance.
Source: Brand's website (https://planetscale.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** PlanetScale is a cloud-native database platform that provides highly scalable MySQL and Postgres databases. It is built on Vitess, an open-source database clustering system developed at YouTube to handle massive horizontal scaling, and offers advanced features like database sharding, branching, and query resource budgeting.
Source: Brand's website (https://planetscale.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - PlanetScale Vitess (MySQL)
  - PlanetScale Postgres
  - PlanetScale Metal
  - Database Traffic Control.
Source: Brand's website (https://planetscale.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Usage-based and Enterprise/Custom (with dedicated/Metal plans)
Source: Brand's website (https://planetscale.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Fintech, High-growth SaaS, Gaming, and Enterprise engineering teams requiring Tier 0 reliability and petabyte-scale.
Source: Brand's website (https://planetscale.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Neon
  - CockroachDB
  - Tidb Cloud
  - AWS Aurora
Source: Brand's website (https://planetscale.com) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.