Managed Postgres became costly coupled dependency after scale, migrated to Aurora/RDS → Aurora / RDS
“they ended up becoming a tightly coupled annoying dependency after scale that defeated the cost savings as they grew in costs”
Supabase alternatives: where its users went, and why they left
Supabase (supabase.com) has 29 sourced reports on Friction, drawn from 66 public source threads (as of 2026-10-15), 4 of them describing a move away. This page reads them for one question: if you are leaving Supabase, what do its users say they moved to, and what pushed them out?
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Where Supabase users say they went
Switching reports that name a destination. A count is the number of reports naming it, not a market share: Friction only holds what people say in public.
| Named alternative | Reports naming it | Newest report |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora / RDS | 1 | 2026 |
| Custom-built backend | 1 | 2025 |
| Chroma Cloud | 1 | 2025 |
| Rails app on Heroku | 1 | 2024 |
| Rails on Heroku | 1 | 2024 |
| LogTail | 1 | 2023 |
| DBeaver | 1 | 2022 |
In their words
Planning to leave Supabase for custom-built backend pieces → Custom-built backend
“I was already planning to leave them”
Cancelled Logflare/Supabase Logs after too many issues for low-volume retention → LogTail
“I ran into too many issues and had to cancel my subscription”
May develop on production or leave because local environment is unstable
“I'll need to either develop directly on production or look for a different solution”
What pushes people away from Supabase
The most-reported open problems, worst severity first. Each links to the item with its source.
Making views respect row level security takes real heroics · Permissions & security · Blocks work · 3 people
“And for views, you have to do some real heroics to get them to respect RBS”
Unable to create a second Free Plan project · Setup & onboarding · Blocks work
“I am unable to create a second project in an organization on the Supabase Free Plan”
Lost access to an existing project and organization · Permissions & security · Blocks work
“I can no longer see that organization or project when I sign into Supabase”
Project stuck in a restarting loop after egress suspension · Reliability & bugs · Blocks work
“my project is in a restarting loop for a month!”
Intermittent PGRST303 errors with `sb_secret_` keys · Reliability & bugs · Blocks work
“Public, crawlable pages returned HTTP 500 to real visitors and to search-engine crawlers”
See all 28 themes for Supabase
Other backend platform tools on Friction, and what their users struggle with
Switching trades one set of problems for another. The same evidence, for each tool Friction covers in this category:
PocketBase
17 reports · 57 source threads · most-discussed area: API & developer experience
- Simple queries time out on SQLite stored on EFS
- No way to store NULL values in fields
- Admin UI not responsive on mobile, needs horizontal scrolling
Supabase vs PocketBase: side by side · PocketBase alternatives
Counts and reports reflect people who post in public (developers and technical buyers are over-represented). A tool with fewer reports is not a better tool; it may only be discussed less. How the data is built.