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500MB total database, 2 free projects
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8GB database included, additional storage at $0.125/GB
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Per organization pricing
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Supabase Vector inherits PostgreSQL's mature reliability features: WAL-based crash recovery, point-in-time restore, and read replicas. The managed platform provides automatic daily backups, monitoring dashboards, and connection pooling via PgBouncer. High availability with automatic failover is available on Pro and Enterprise plans.
Yes. Since Supabase Vector is built on pgvector and PostgreSQL, you can self-host by running PostgreSQL with the pgvector extension on any infrastructure. Supabase itself is open-source and can be self-hosted via Docker. The self-hosted route requires manually configuring the Supabase stack (PostgREST, GoTrue, etc.) and managing PostgreSQL operations.
Supabase pricing is based on database size, compute, and bandwidth. Vector operations don't incur separate charges. Optimize by choosing smaller embedding dimensions (e.g., 384 instead of 1536), using HNSW indexes instead of exact search for large tables, and implementing caching for frequent queries. The free tier includes 500MB of database storage, sufficient for tens of thousands of embeddings.
Supabase Vector trades raw vector search performance at scale for platform simplicity. If your application already uses Supabase for auth, storage, and APIs, adding vector search is nearly frictionless. Pinecone and Qdrant will outperform pgvector for datasets with tens of millions of vectors and offer features like automatic scaling, quantization, and horizontal sharding that pgvector lacks.
Very low. Your vector data, indexes, and SQL queries work on any PostgreSQL instance with pgvector installed. The Supabase platform features (Auth, Edge Functions, real-time) create some coupling, but the core vector functionality is portable. Export using standard pg_dump or COPY commands.
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