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Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale
In May 2025, during the same week Neon announced their acquisition, our databases went down four times. For hours. Database spin-ups, their entire value proposition, were completely disabled. Our "serverless" databases couldn't even start. That was the final straw in our decision to migrate to PlanetScale. Who We Are and
Usage-based pricing that punished our success, the more users chatted, the more we paid Zero observability into performance metrics like p99 latency No query-level insights to optimize our encrypted workloads AWS RDS: Enterprise-grade but enterprise-priced, with limited innovation Supabase: Great for prototypes, but we needed production reliability Self-hosted: We're a small team building complex infrastructure, we can't afford database administration When I hit edge cases in my dev environment, their team responded to my emails quickly with detailed answers that actually solved my problems.
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