Managed Supabase Hosting — production-ready from $15 a month
Open-source Firebase alternative with Postgres, auth, realtime, and storage. Deployed on your own dedicated instance in AWS, Azure, or GCP, kept patched, backed up, and monitored by ManageStacks — standard Supabase, no lock-in.
Supabase on ManageStacks is the open-source Firebase alternative deployed to your own AWS, Azure, or GCP region — flat per-app pricing from $15 a month ($29 on the Standard production plan). Get Postgres, authentication, real-time subscriptions, edge functions, and object storage in a single platform with full data ownership. No vendor lock-in, no per-request pricing surprises.
What does Supabase do, and why do teams deploy it?
Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service platform built on PostgreSQL. It provides a complete application backend — database, authentication, real-time subscriptions, edge functions, object storage, and auto-generated APIs — in a single cohesive platform. Every feature is built on open-source components: PostgREST for REST APIs, GoTrue for auth, Realtime for WebSocket subscriptions, and Kong for API gateway routing.
Unlike Firebase, Supabase uses standard PostgreSQL as its data layer. This means full SQL support, joins, views, stored procedures, triggers, extensions (PostGIS, pgvector, pg_cron), and the ability to query your data with any PostgreSQL-compatible tool. Row Level Security (RLS) policies let you define fine-grained access control directly in the database, and the auth system integrates with OAuth providers, magic links, phone OTP, and custom JWT issuers.
Self-hosting Supabase involves orchestrating PostgreSQL, PostgREST, GoTrue, Realtime, Kong, the Storage API, and the Studio dashboard — each with its own configuration surface, health checks, and upgrade cadence. ManageStacks provisions and operates the entire stack so your team builds features against the Supabase client library without worrying about connection pooling, WAL management, or auth-service scaling.
- PostgreSQL database with full SQL, extensions, and Row Level Security
- Built-in authentication: OAuth, magic links, phone OTP, custom JWT
- Real-time WebSocket subscriptions for database changes
- Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs via PostgREST
- Edge Functions for serverless compute at the data layer
- Object storage with access policies and image transformations
Open-source Firebase alternative with Postgres, auth, realtime, and storage
Supabase as a self-hosted alternative to Firebase and AWS Amplify
Instead of paying per-seat fees to a SaaS vendor, teams self-host Supabase to keep full control of their data and infrastructure. ManageStacks removes the operational overhead — you get the cost and privacy benefits of open source with the reliability of a managed platform.
What does managed Supabase hosting cost?
Flat per-app pricing, in your chosen AWS, Azure, or GCP region. No per-user pricing — a busy deployment costs the same as a quiet one.
Starter
Staging and internal tools. Dedicated instance, TLS, daily backups, managed upgrades.
Standard
Production workloads. Adds monitoring, staging environment, region choice, priority support.
Business
High-traffic and compliance workloads. Adds a high-availability replica and same-day support.
24×7 SRE retainer
Round-the-clock on-call across every hosted application, for teams that need a pager answered at 3am.
When is self-hosting Supabase the right answer instead?
“Managed hosting is not always the correct call.”
Self-host when a platform team already runs the infrastructure and on-call rotation to operate Supabase at genuinely low marginal cost. Self-host when compliance requires an air-gapped or on-premises deployment that no hosted option can satisfy. And self-host when the deployment depends on heavy customisation with a fast internal build-deploy loop, because an internal release process will beat any managed change process.
For everyone else — teams whose engineers have better things to do than shepherd upgrades — managed hosting is cheaper than the hours it replaces.
Which cloud should Supabase run on — AWS, Azure or GCP?
For most workloads, the choice of cloud matters less than proximity: run Supabase in the same cloud and region as the applications and data it talks to, because every request between them adds a round trip. The underlying compute performs equivalently across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
In practice, an existing cloud footprint decides it. All plans support all three clouds, and moving regions later is a scheduled migration, not a rebuild.
Deepest managed-service catalog, default when there's no existing footprint
Best fit for teams already on Microsoft 365 or Entra ID
Strongest for data/analytics-adjacent workloads
Every plan supports AWS, Azure, and GCP — region choice included.
Common questions about Supabase on ManageStacks
What is Supabase on ManageStacks?
Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative that provides Postgres, auth, real-time subscriptions, edge functions, and storage. ManageStacks hosts the full Supabase stack in your own cloud region at a flat rate.
How does Supabase compare to Firebase?
Firebase is Google's proprietary BaaS with NoSQL (Firestore), vendor lock-in, and per-read/per-write pricing. Supabase is open-source, built on PostgreSQL with full SQL support, and self-hosted. You keep standard SQL tooling and can leave at any time.
Does Supabase on ManageStacks include the Studio dashboard?
Yes. ManageStacks deploys the full Supabase stack including Studio — the visual dashboard for managing tables, auth users, storage buckets, and edge functions. It is the same interface you would use on Supabase Cloud.
Can I use pgvector with Supabase on ManageStacks?
Yes. PostgreSQL extensions including pgvector are supported. This enables vector similarity search for AI/ML applications — store embeddings alongside relational data and query them with standard SQL.
What happens to my data if I leave ManageStacks?
Your data lives in a standard PostgreSQL database. Export with pg_dump at any time. Supabase is open-source, so you can spin up a new instance anywhere and restore the dump. No proprietary format, no export fees.
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