# Supabase

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**Supabase** is an open-source backend-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that bundles a hosted [PostgreSQL](/wiki/postgresql) database with authentication, file storage, real-time subscriptions, [edge functions](/wiki/edge_functions), and vector similarity search behind a single SDK. The company markets itself as the open-source alternative to [Firebase](/wiki/firebase) by composing best-of-breed open-source tools, including PostgreSQL, [PostgREST](/wiki/postgrest), [GoTrue](/wiki/gotrue), and a custom Realtime server, into a coherent developer platform [1][2]. Supabase was founded in January 2020 by [Paul Copplestone](/wiki/paul_copplestone) (CEO) and [Ant Wilson](/wiki/ant_wilson) (CTO), and the stack is licensed permissively, with most components under the [Apache 2.0 License](/wiki/apache_2_0_license) or MIT [3].

Since integrating the [pgvector](/wiki/pgvector) extension in early 2023, Supabase has become one of the most widely adopted [vector database](/wiki/vector_database) backends for [retrieval-augmented generation](/wiki/retrieval_augmented_generation) (RAG) and other AI applications, especially among indie developers, AI startups, and "vibe coding" platforms such as Lovable and Bolt that emit Supabase-backed applications by default [4][5]. By October 2025 the company reported more than four million developers on the platform, more than 100,000 paying customers, and a $5 billion valuation following a Series E led by [Accel](/wiki/accel) and Peak XV [4][5]. In June 2026 Supabase raised a $500 million Series F at a $10.5 billion valuation led by [GIC](/wiki/gic), reporting nearly 10 million developers and a sixfold year-over-year increase in databases as AI coding agents became the leading source of new projects on the platform; by then the company said more than 60 percent of new database launches were initiated by an AI tool rather than a person typing in the dashboard [30][31][32].

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Private company |
| Industry | Backend-as-a-service, developer tools, databases |
| Founded | January 2020 |
| Founders | Paul Copplestone, Ant Wilson |
| Headquarters | Singapore (Supabase Pte. Ltd.); fully remote workforce |
| License | Apache 2.0 / MIT (most components) |
| Open source | Yes |
| Total funding | ~$1.04 billion (through Series F, June 2026) |
| Valuation | $10.5 billion (June 2026) |
| Website | supabase.com |

## When was Supabase founded?

The project that became Supabase started as a side experiment by Paul Copplestone in late 2019. Copplestone, a New Zealand-born engineer who had previously worked on Singapore-based fintech projects, was building a real-time messaging product and grew frustrated with the trade-offs of [Firebase](/wiki/firebase): its proprietary NoSQL data model, vendor lock-in, and the difficulty of escaping the platform once an application scaled. He noticed that PostgREST, an open-source project by Joe Nelson that exposes a PostgreSQL schema as a REST API, could replicate much of Firebase's instant-API ergonomics on top of a relational database [6][7].

Copplestone convinced his former colleague [Ant Wilson](/wiki/ant_wilson) to join, and the pair incorporated the company in January 2020 with a $100,000 angel pre-seed. Their pitch was simple: take PostgreSQL, wrap it in a curated set of open-source services for auth, real-time, and storage, and offer the whole thing as a managed service while keeping every component self-hostable. By April 2020 the platform was hosting roughly eight live databases [3][6]. The company still summarizes that pitch in its tagline, "Build in a weekend. Scale to millions." [8].

Supabase joined the [Y Combinator](/wiki/y_combinator) Summer 2020 batch (S20). YC's June-to-August program coincided with the early COVID-19 lockdown and was held remotely, which suited a company whose founders were already distributed between Singapore, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. Supabase has remained fully remote ever since, with employees across more than 30 countries, and incorporates as Supabase Pte. Ltd. in Singapore [3][8].

## How much funding has Supabase raised?

Supabase has raised through Series F in just over six years, with rounds led or co-led by [Coatue](/wiki/coatue), [Felicis Ventures](/wiki/felicis_ventures), [Accel](/wiki/accel), and [GIC](/wiki/gic). The round-by-round totals reported in press releases and TechCrunch coverage are summarized below.

| Round | Amount | Date | Lead investors | Notable participants | Reported valuation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-seed | ~$100,000 | January 2020 | Angels | About 20 individual angels | Undisclosed |
| Seed | $6 million | December 2020 | Coatue | [Mozilla](/wiki/mozilla), [Y Combinator](/wiki/y_combinator), Worklife, ~20 angels | Undisclosed |
| Series A | $30 million | September 2021 | Coatue | Felicis, Y Combinator, Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub co-founder), Solomon Hykes (Docker co-founder), Alex Solomon (PagerDuty co-founder) | Undisclosed |
| Series B | $80 million | May 2022 | Felicis | Coatue, Lightspeed | Reported around $400-500 million |
| Series C | $80 million | September 2024 | Peak XV, Craft Ventures | Coatue, Felicis, Y Combinator, Avra Capital | Up round (officially undisclosed; Sacra and other secondaries trackers reported ~$900 million) |
| Series D | $200 million | April 2025 | Accel | Coatue, Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, Felicis | $2 billion |
| Series E | $100 million | October 2025 | Accel, Peak XV | Figma Ventures and prior investors | $5 billion |
| Series F | $500 million | June 2026 | GIC | Accel, Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, Felicis, Peak XV, Coatue, Stripe (second investment); new investors Georgian and Salesforce Ventures | $10.5 billion |

TechCrunch covered the seed round in December 2020 [9], the Series A in September 2021 [10], the Series B in May 2022 [11], the Series C in September 2024 [12], the Series D in April 2025 [13], the Series E in October 2025 [4], and the Series F in June 2026 [31]. As of the Series E announcement, Supabase reported about $544 million raised in total [5][14]; the Series F brought cumulative funding to more than $1 billion [30][31].

The April 2025 Series D was widely read as a referendum on "vibe coding," the practice of building applications by prompting AI tools rather than writing code by hand. Copplestone told Fortune that Supabase's growth was being pulled directly by those tools: "Our sign-up rate just doubled in the past three months because of vibe coding: Bolt, Lovable, Cursor, all those." [14]. Felicis managing partner Aydin Senkut made a similar observation in TechCrunch's coverage of the round [13].

### Series F (June 2026)

On June 4, 2026, Supabase announced a $500 million Series F at a $10 billion pre-money valuation, or roughly $10.5 billion post-money, about seven months after its Series E [30][31][32]. The round was led by [GIC](/wiki/gic), the Singapore sovereign wealth fund, with all existing investors participating; [Stripe](/wiki/stripe) made a second investment, and Georgian and [Salesforce Ventures](/wiki/salesforce_ventures) joined as new investors [30][33]. The financing made Supabase a decacorn and brought total capital raised to more than $1 billion [31].

Supabase framed the round around what it called "agentic infrastructure," reflecting that AI coding agents had become the dominant way databases were being created on the platform [30][32]. The company reported that its user base had roughly doubled since the Series E to nearly 10 million developers, that the number of databases on the platform had grown more than 600 percent year over year, and that more than 60 percent of new database launches were initiated by an AI tool rather than a human typing in the dashboard [30][31]. Press coverage put the paying customer base above 250,000 [31][32]. CEO Paul Copplestone credited the surge to AI coding tools such as Anthropic's [Claude Code](/wiki/claude_code) and OpenAI's [Codex](/wiki/openai_codex), saying these tools "expand the number of people who can build," and stated that "agents are now deploying the majority of databases on our platform," with Claude Code the single largest contributor of new databases since the start of 2026 [30][31][32].

Alongside the funding, Supabase released a preview of [Multigres](/wiki/multigres), an open-source horizontal-scaling layer for Postgres, as a v0.1 alpha under the Apache 2.0 license [30][32]. Multigres is led by Sugu Sougoumarane, co-creator of Vitess, who had joined Supabase the previous year, and is described as a "scalable operating system for Postgres" intended to add sharding, high availability, connection management, and zero-downtime migrations while remaining compatible with the broader PostgreSQL ecosystem [30][33]. The company also said its OrioleDB storage engine for Postgres was on track to reach production readiness during 2026 [30].

## Architecture

A Supabase project is a single PostgreSQL database surrounded by a set of stateless services, each open source and each separable from the rest. Requests enter through a Kong API gateway and are routed to whichever service is responsible for that path [2][15]. The major components are:

- **PostgreSQL.** Every Supabase project is backed by a dedicated, full-privilege PostgreSQL instance (Postgres 15 or later in current releases). The database is the source of truth for application data, auth metadata, storage metadata, real-time subscriptions, and vector embeddings [1][15].
- **PostgREST.** Written in Haskell by Joe Nelson and licensed under MIT, PostgREST introspects the database schema and exposes it as a RESTful API with row-level filters, joins, and bulk operations [7][15].
- **Supabase Auth (formerly GoTrue).** A [JWT](/wiki/jwt)-based auth API forked from Netlify's GoTrue project. Supabase has rewritten and significantly extended the original Go codebase to add [OAuth](/wiki/oauth) providers, magic links, phone-based OTP, multi-factor authentication, server-side SSO with SAML 2.0, and tight integration with PostgreSQL row-level security [16].
- **Realtime.** A WebSocket server written in Elixir on the [Phoenix](/wiki/phoenix_framework) framework. It supports three modes: Postgres CDC (broadcasting row events from a logical replication slot), broadcast (low-latency fan-out), and presence (tracking which clients are online) [2][15].
- **Storage.** An S3-compatible object storage service implemented in Node.js/TypeScript that stores metadata in PostgreSQL and uses [S3](/wiki/s3) (or a self-hosted equivalent like MinIO) for the bytes. Access control is enforced through ordinary row-level security policies on the metadata table [15].
- **Edge Functions.** TypeScript functions running on a [Deno](/wiki/deno)-based runtime that Supabase open-sourced as `edge-runtime`. Edge Functions launched on March 31, 2022 during Launch Week 4 [17].
- **pg_graphql.** A native [GraphQL](/wiki/graphql) extension for PostgreSQL written in Rust by Supabase. It resolves GraphQL queries entirely inside Postgres through a `graphql.resolve()` SQL function, with no additional servers required [18].
- **postgres-meta and Studio.** A REST API and dashboard for inspecting and managing the database, schemas, roles, policies, and extensions.

A dedicated PgBouncer, and in newer projects Supavisor (Supabase's own Elixir-based connection pooler), sits between the application services and Postgres to multiplex connections, which is essential for serverless workloads where each function invocation may open a fresh connection.

Supabase also packages and operates PostgreSQL extensions that have become important to the broader ecosystem: `pg_cron` (scheduled jobs inside the database), `pg_net` (HTTP from SQL), `pgsodium` (transparent column encryption), `pgmq` (queues), and the Supabase-developed `wrappers` (foreign data wrappers for connecting to external services such as Stripe, Firebase, BigQuery, and S3) [15][19].

In 2026 Supabase began tightening some of the platform's default behaviors. Starting April 28, 2026, new tables in the public schema are no longer automatically exposed through the Data API (PostgREST and `pg_graphql`); reaching a table over the API now requires an explicit Postgres grant, a change that became the default for new projects on May 30, 2026 [34]. Separately, the default database image in the self-hosted `docker-compose.yml` deployment moved from Postgres 15 to Postgres 17 the week of June 15, 2026, aligning local deployments with the hosted platform, and managed projects still running Postgres 14 were scheduled to upgrade automatically to Postgres 17 after Postgres 14 reached end of support on July 1, 2026 [34].

## Is Supabase open source and self-hostable?

Yes. Supabase ships in two compatible flavors, and every meaningful feature runs in either one without a license fee. **Supabase Cloud** is the managed offering with a usage-based pricing model: a free tier (which pauses inactive projects after seven days), a Pro plan starting at $25 per project per month, a Team plan, and a custom Enterprise plan [1][20].

**Self-hosted Supabase** is a `docker-compose.yml` deployment that wires up the same services and is functionally identical to the cloud product. Because Supabase deliberately avoids open-core gating, every meaningful feature, including authentication providers, real-time, storage, vector search, and edge functions, runs in self-hosted mode without any license fee [3][15]. The cloud business funds the open-source work, and there is no separate "enterprise edition" with proprietary capabilities.

In 2024 Supabase introduced **Supabase Branching**, which gives every git branch or pull request its own isolated environment (Postgres, Auth, Storage, Realtime, Edge Functions) seeded from the parent project's migrations. It is integrated with [Vercel](/wiki/vercel), GitHub, and the [Supabase CLI](/wiki/supabase_cli) [21].

## What are Supabase's AI features?

The most consequential change in Supabase's history for the AI ecosystem was the integration of `pgvector`, the PostgreSQL extension for vector similarity search written by [Andrew Kane](/wiki/andrew_kane) [22][23]. Supabase made `pgvector` available to every Postgres project in early 2023, around the time it published the widely circulated tutorial "Storing OpenAI embeddings in Postgres with pgvector" [22][24]. From that point on, a Supabase database could simultaneously store an application's relational data and its vector [embeddings](/wiki/embeddings), without the overhead of running a separate vector store. The company brands this combination as Supabase Vector, a Postgres vector database and AI toolkit for building [retrieval-augmented generation](/wiki/retrieval_augmented_generation) and semantic-search applications [24].

The core vector functionality is straightforward: a column declared as `vector(1536)` holds a fixed-dimension array of floats, and the `<->`, `<#>`, and `<=>` operators compute Euclidean distance, negative inner product, and cosine distance respectively. The 1536-dimension default matches the output of OpenAI's `text-embedding-ada-002` model [24]. For approximate nearest-neighbour search, `pgvector` originally supported [IVFFlat](/wiki/ivfflat) indexes; in version 0.5.0 (September 2023) it added [HNSW](/wiki/hnsw) indexes, which Supabase enabled the same week [23]. HNSW typically produces faster lookups at high recall, at the cost of higher build time and memory.

Supabase has continued to invest in the AI surface area:

- **AI integrations.** First-party documentation and starter templates for [OpenAI embeddings](/wiki/openai_embeddings), Cohere, Hugging Face, Mistral, [LangChain](/wiki/langchain), and [LlamaIndex](/wiki/llamaindex) [22][24]. The Python client `vecs` provides a higher-level interface for embeddings.
- **Automatic embeddings.** A 2024 feature that uses Postgres triggers and Edge Functions to keep an embedding column in sync with a text column automatically.
- **AI Inference in Edge Functions.** Starting in late 2023, Supabase added a built-in `Supabase.ai.Session` API in the Deno-based Edge Functions runtime that runs small open-weight models, including embedding models such as `gte-small`, directly inside the function without an external API call.
- **AI Assistant in Studio.** A natural-language interface for SQL generation, schema design, and policy authoring inside the dashboard. The second-generation Assistant (Assistant v2) shipped on December 2, 2024 as a single panel persistent across the entire dashboard, invoked with `cmd+i`, that automatically retrieves context for the current page and can design schemas, write and debug SQL, convert an SQL query into `supabase-js` client code, and create or edit row-level security policies, Postgres functions, and triggers [35].
- **Vector Buckets.** A 2025 feature for large-scale embedding workloads that decouples vector storage from the primary OLTP database while preserving SQL access [25].

### How do AI coding agents use Supabase? The Model Context Protocol (MCP) server

In 2025 Supabase added support for the [Model Context Protocol](/wiki/model_context_protocol) (MCP), the open standard for connecting large language models to external tools and data, so that AI assistants and coding agents can operate Supabase projects directly. The first Supabase MCP server was announced on April 4, 2025; it ran locally through `npx`, authenticated with a personal access token, and exposed more than 20 tools for tasks such as creating projects, designing tables, tracking migrations, running SQL, fetching configuration, generating TypeScript types, and debugging from logs [36]. Compatible clients included [Cursor](/wiki/cursor), Claude, and [Claude Code](/wiki/claude_code).

On October 3, 2025 Supabase released a hosted remote MCP server at `https://mcp.supabase.com/mcp` [37]. The remote server replaced manual personal access tokens with browser-based OAuth 2 authentication through dynamic client registration, so a personal access token is now needed only for non-interactive scenarios such as CI/CD [37]. It added feature groups for selectively exposing tools, a documentation search tool backed by hybrid search over the Supabase docs, the platform's security and performance advisors as MCP tools, initial Supabase Storage support, and a read-only mode enforced at the Postgres role level [37]. Supported clients expanded to include Cursor, Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and [Builder.io](/wiki/builder_io). Supabase advises against connecting the MCP server to production data and recommends using development branches for agent-driven work [36][37].

The combination of relational data and vector search in a single database, together with MCP access for coding agents, has made Supabase a default choice for RAG pipelines and AI-generated applications, especially in projects that already use PostgreSQL and want to avoid a dedicated vector store such as Pinecone or Weaviate. By the June 2026 Series F, the company reported that AI agents were initiating the majority of new databases on the platform [30][31].

## How does Supabase compare to Firebase and other alternatives?

Supabase competes most directly with managed BaaS platforms and Postgres-focused database services. The table below summarizes the most cited alternatives.

| Platform | Storage model | Open source | Auth | Real-time | Vector search | Hosting | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Supabase** | PostgreSQL | Yes (Apache 2.0 / MIT) | Built-in (Supabase Auth / GoTrue fork) | WebSockets via Phoenix | pgvector | Managed cloud + self-host | Postgres developer platform |
| [Firebase](/wiki/firebase) | Firestore (NoSQL document) and Realtime DB | No | Firebase Auth | Yes (proprietary) | Vertex AI Vector Search add-on | Google Cloud only | Acquired by Google in 2014 |
| [AWS Amplify](/wiki/aws_amplify) | DynamoDB and others | Partial (CLI open source) | Cognito | AppSync subscriptions | OpenSearch / Bedrock add-ons | AWS only | AWS-native BaaS |
| [Appwrite](/wiki/appwrite) | MariaDB-backed document store | Yes (BSD-3) | Built-in | Yes | No (planned) | Cloud + self-host | BaaS with broader runtime support |
| [PocketBase](/wiki/pocketbase) | SQLite | Yes (MIT) | Built-in | Yes | No | Self-host (single binary) | Single Go binary, ideal for small apps |
| [Nhost](/wiki/nhost) | PostgreSQL via Hasura | Yes | Hasura Auth | GraphQL subscriptions | pgvector | Cloud + self-host | Hasura-backed open-source BaaS |
| [Convex](/wiki/convex) | Custom transactional DB | No (source-available) | Built-in | Reactive queries | Yes | Managed cloud | Reactive function runtime |
| [Xata](/wiki/xata) | PostgreSQL + search | Partial | Built-in | Limited | Yes | Managed cloud | Database with search and AI focus |
| [Neon](/wiki/neon) | Serverless PostgreSQL | Partial (engine open) | None | Logical replication | pgvector | Managed cloud | Branching-focused Postgres |

Firebase remains the largest competitor by raw user count, but Supabase has positioned itself as the option for teams that want a relational schema, SQL, row-level security, and the ability to walk away with a `pg_dump`. The choice that distinguishes Supabase from Convex, Xata, and others is its insistence that the database is plain PostgreSQL: every project can be connected to with `psql` or any other Postgres client.

## How many developers use Supabase?

Supabase has reported the consistent growth pattern characteristic of a developer-led product. By April 2025 the company reported about 1.7 million registered developers; by the October 2025 Series E announcement that figure had grown to more than four million, alongside more than 100,000 paying customers [4][5][14]. By the June 2026 Series F the company reported nearly 10 million developers, roughly double the figure eight months earlier, with press coverage citing more than 250,000 paying customers and a 600 percent year-over-year increase in databases on the platform [30][31][32]. Supabase has stated that more than half of recent Y Combinator batches built their products on Supabase.

Notable users and customers include [Mozilla](/wiki/mozilla) (Firefox Relay), 1Password, GitHub Next, Resend, [Replit](/wiki/replit), Figma, Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Krea, PwC, and McDonald's [4][5][26]. The company is particularly visible in AI tooling: Lovable and Bolt, two of the most prominent "vibe coding" platforms that generate full-stack web applications from natural language prompts, default to Supabase for the apps they emit, which has driven a significant share of the platform's growth in 2024 and 2025 [4][13]. By 2026 the company reported that more than 60 percent of new database launches were being initiated by AI tools rather than entered manually, with [Claude Code](/wiki/claude_code) and [Codex](/wiki/openai_codex) the leading sources [30][31].

The main `supabase/supabase` GitHub repository passed 50,000 stars in 2022, 80,000 in early 2025, and crossed 100,000 stars later in 2025, placing it among the most-starred repositories in the database and developer-tools categories [27]. The Supabase Discord server hosts more than 200,000 members.

## Developer experience

Much of Supabase's traction comes from its emphasis on a friction-free local development workflow. The [Supabase CLI](/wiki/supabase_cli) (`supabase`) starts the entire stack as Docker containers with a single `supabase start` command, including Postgres, Auth, Realtime, Storage, Edge Functions runtime, the Studio UI, an inbucket SMTP capture server, and an API gateway. Schema changes are versioned through migration files, and the CLI can diff a local database against a remote project to generate the next migration [28].

The TypeScript client library `@supabase/supabase-js` provides a chainable query builder over PostgREST with full type inference. The CLI can generate `database.types.ts` from any project's schema, so [TypeScript](/wiki/typescript) autocompletion follows the actual columns, constraints, and policies of the live database. Official client SDKs exist for TypeScript/JavaScript, Dart/Flutter, Swift, Kotlin, and Python; community SDKs cover Go, Rust, C#, and Ruby [15].

Other features in this category include database [webhooks](/wiki/webhook) (HTTP triggers fired on row events), branching, AI-assisted SQL generation in the dashboard, automatic embeddings, and a native integration with [Vercel](/wiki/vercel) that wires up environment variables automatically. In 2026 the official client libraries also began automatically retrying failed read requests (GET and HEAD) up to three times with exponential backoff on transient errors, while never retrying writes [34].

## Notable open-source contributions

Supabase is unusual among BaaS vendors in shipping a number of standalone open-source projects rather than a single proprietary platform. Significant projects in the Supabase GitHub organization include:

- **pg_graphql.** A Postgres extension that exposes a GraphQL API directly from the database schema, written in Rust [18].
- **wrappers.** A framework and a set of foreign data wrappers (FDWs) that let Postgres query external services such as Stripe, Firebase, ClickHouse, Airtable, and S3 as if they were tables [19].
- **Supavisor.** A scalable Postgres connection pooler written in Elixir, designed to handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections from serverless functions [29].
- **Realtime.** The Phoenix-based WebSocket and CDC server.
- **postgres-meta.** A REST API for inspecting and modifying Postgres databases.
- **edge-runtime.** A Deno-based serverless runtime that Supabase open-sourced for self-hosted deployments.
- **Multigres.** An open-source horizontal-scaling layer for Postgres, released as a v0.1 alpha under the Apache 2.0 license in June 2026 and led by Vitess co-creator Sugu Sougoumarane [30][32].

Most of these are released under Apache 2.0 or PostgreSQL-style licenses, and the company has stated that contributions to the Postgres ecosystem are part of its long-term strategy [3][29].

## Community

Supabase popularized the **Launch Week** format among small developer-tools companies. A Launch Week is a single calendar week, typically twice a year, during which Supabase ships a major new feature each weekday, accompanied by a livestream, blog posts, and a community hackathon. By 2025 the company had run more than a dozen Launch Weeks, releasing capabilities that include Edge Functions (Launch Week 4, March 2022), the Studio AI Assistant, Branching, and Vector Buckets [25][27]. Launch Week 15 was scheduled for July 14 to 18, 2026 [38].

The Supabase Discord, GitHub Discussions, and the `r/supabase` subreddit serve as the main support channels. The company also runs a meetups program and co-hosts events with [Vercel](/wiki/vercel), the Postgres community, and the Y Combinator alumni network.

## Recent direction

From 2023 onward, Supabase increasingly described itself as the "Postgres developer platform" rather than the "open-source Firebase alternative," reflecting both the broader product surface and the strategic centrality of extensions like `pgvector` and `pg_graphql`. The company's marketing in 2024 and 2025 emphasized a few related themes:

- **AI-native Postgres.** Treating embeddings, vector indexes, and inference as first-class database features rather than separate services. Automatic embeddings, `Supabase.ai`, and Vector Buckets are concrete examples [25].
- **Vibe coding backend.** Making it trivial for AI agents and code-generation tools to provision and operate Supabase projects. Lovable, Bolt, v0, and similar platforms either default to Supabase or feature it prominently [4][13].
- **Enterprise readiness.** SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliance, customer-managed encryption keys, audit logs, and dedicated infrastructure for larger customers. The Series D announcement emphasized enterprise traction and named PwC, McDonald's, and similar customers [13][14].
- **Multigres / horizontal scale.** With the Series E in October 2025, Supabase announced **Multigres**, a horizontally scalable distribution of Postgres aimed at the largest workloads, and confirmed the hire of Sugu Sougoumarane, co-creator of Vitess, to lead the effort [4][5]. A v0.1 alpha of Multigres followed with the Series F in June 2026 [30][32].

### 2025-2026 developments

By 2026 Supabase had reframed its strategy around "agentic infrastructure," positioning itself as the database layer that AI coding agents reach for when they generate applications [30][32].

- **Series F and decacorn valuation.** In June 2026 the company raised a $500 million Series F at a $10.5 billion valuation led by [GIC](/wiki/gic), with [Stripe](/wiki/stripe), Georgian, and [Salesforce Ventures](/wiki/salesforce_ventures) among the investors, bringing total funding above $1 billion [30][31][33].
- **Agent-driven growth.** The company reported nearly 10 million developers, more than 250,000 paying customers, a 600 percent year-over-year increase in databases, and that more than 60 percent of new database launches were initiated by AI tools, with [Claude Code](/wiki/claude_code) and [Codex](/wiki/openai_codex) cited as the leading sources [30][31][32].
- **Remote MCP server.** The hosted [Model Context Protocol](/wiki/model_context_protocol) server at `mcp.supabase.com`, released in October 2025, let coding agents create and manage Supabase projects through browser-based OAuth instead of personal access tokens [37].
- **Passkeys for Auth.** On May 28, 2026 Supabase released a beta of passkeys for Supabase Auth, a passwordless, phishing-resistant credential built on the [WebAuthn](/wiki/webauthn) standard that lets users sign in with biometrics, a device PIN, or a hardware security key [39].
- **Multigres and OrioleDB.** Supabase shipped the Multigres v0.1 alpha for horizontal Postgres scaling and said its OrioleDB storage engine was on track to reach production readiness during 2026 [30][32].
- **Platform defaults.** The company tightened several defaults, including no longer auto-exposing new public-schema tables to the Data API (from April 2026) and moving the default self-hosted database image from Postgres 15 to Postgres 17 (June 2026) [34].

Supabase has not announced public plans for an IPO as of June 2026 [13][30].

## Limitations

Supabase has trade-offs that have been documented by both the company and its users:

- **PostgreSQL-centric.** Supabase is a poor fit for applications that need a document, graph, or time-series database as the primary store. While Postgres has competent JSON, graph (via extensions), and time-series (via TimescaleDB) capabilities, teams with deeply non-relational workloads often pair Supabase with another store.
- **Realtime scale ceiling.** The Phoenix-based Realtime server scales to tens of thousands of concurrent connections per project but has historically had limits at the very high end. Supabase has shipped multiple overhauls in 2023, 2024, and 2025 to address this.
- **Free tier pausing.** Free-tier projects pause after seven days of inactivity and must be manually resumed; paid plans avoid the issue.
- **Lock-in risk despite open source.** Every component is open source, but the operational complexity of running the full stack is non-trivial, and customers who rely on Supabase-specific extensions (such as `wrappers`, `pgsodium`, or `Supabase.ai` in Edge Functions) cannot move to a vanilla Postgres host without losing those features.
- **Outage history.** Supabase publishes a status page at status.supabase.com and has had several multi-hour incidents over the years, with detailed post-mortems published for major events.

## See also

- [PostgreSQL](/wiki/postgresql)
- [Firebase](/wiki/firebase)
- [pgvector](/wiki/pgvector)
- [Vector database](/wiki/vector_database)
- [Retrieval-augmented generation](/wiki/retrieval_augmented_generation)
- [Embeddings](/wiki/embeddings)
- [Edge functions](/wiki/edge_functions)
- [Model Context Protocol](/wiki/model_context_protocol)
- [Y Combinator](/wiki/y_combinator)
- [Neon](/wiki/neon)

## References

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