Supabase
Supabase is the Postgres development platform offering hosted Postgres, Authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, Realtime, Storage and Vector embeddings.
- Business Profile
- Founders & Team6 sources scanned
- Market Size12 sources scanned
- Competitor Research5 sources scanned
- Funding12 sources scanned
- Momentum8 sources scanned
- Customer Sentiment8 sources scanned
- AI Visibility
- Risks & Red Flags4 sources scanned
Summary
Worth a closer lookSupabase is a Postgres‑first developer platform that bundles hosted Postgres with Auth, Storage, Realtime, Edge Functions and vector embeddings, positioning itself as a full BaaS alternative to GraphQL‑first and infra specialists (Hasura, Nhost, Neon, Appwrite, Directus). The company just raised a $500M Series F led by GIC (June 4, 2026) at a $10.5B post‑money valuation and has publicly previewed Multigres, a horizontal scaling layer — signals it is moving aggressively from developer tooling toward core DB infra. Reported scale (~$70M ARR, ~250k customers) and strong developer visibility justify the large raise, but a cluster of 2026 operational/security incidents (Moltbook API key leak, a failed PITR restore after a PostgreSQL upgrade, region‑wide outages) plus Trustpilot 2.9/5 show real enterprise reliability and support friction. The central tension: rapid product/infra expansion funded by huge capital versus demonstrable reliability and regulatory/availability pressure (including an India access disruption). First meeting should focus on incident root causes, SLAs/enterprise readiness, and how Multigres materially differentiates from Neon/branching approaches.
Bull case
- Closed a $500M Series F led by GIC on June 4, 2026 at a $10.5B post‑money valuation, demonstrating major investor conviction and a war chest for product expansion.
- Product wedge: a Postgres‑first stack (hosted Postgres + Auth, Storage, Realtime, Edge Functions, instant APIs and vector embeddings) that differentiates from Hasura/Nhost (GraphQL‑centric) and Neon (DB infra) by offering a bundled BaaS.
- Previewed Multigres, a horizontal scaling layer for Postgres, signaling a credible move into core DB infra where value and enterprise spend are larger.
- Reported commercial scale (~$70M ARR and ~250k customers) and strong developer visibility — Supabase is consistently surfaced as the go‑to Postgres development platform.
Watch-outs
- Multiple 2026 operational/security incidents: a third‑party app (Moltbook) leaked API keys via a misconfigured Supabase DB; a customer reported complete production data loss after a Postgres upgrade and failed PITR restore; and region‑wide outages were reported.
- Customer sentiment and support concerns: Trustpilot score 2.9/5 with complaints about project pausing, account suspensions and billing disputes — operational friction that can block enterprise adoption.
- Regulatory/availability exposure: reported access disruption in India due to a governmental blocking order — a reminder of geopolitical/regulatory risk for a hosted DB service.
- High valuation and capital intensity: $10.5B post‑money against reported ~$70M ARR raises questions about unit economics, growth durability and the cadence needed to justify the multiple.
Questions for the founder
- 1Can you walk through the root causes, remediation steps and permanent fixes for the Moltbook API key leak, the PITR failure after the Postgres upgrade, and recent region outages?
- 2What are current uptime metrics, MTTR, SLAs offered to paying tiers, and how often do customers hit incident‑related credits or churn?
- 3How does Multigres technically differentiate from Neon’s serverless/branching approach and what is the roadmap/timeline to GA and enterprise SLAs?
- 4Provide unit economics: ARPU by cohort, CAC, gross margin on hosted Postgres, and net revenue retention for the last 12 months.
- 5What controls and contractual protections exist to prevent customer data loss (backup verification, recovery drills, customer vs. platform responsibilities)?
Company profile
Customers on site
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed. The company website does not list its pricing on any of the 6 pages we read.
Target segments
Product suite
- Postgres Database
Hosted PostgreSQL database for each project
- Authentication
User sign-up, sign-in and access control with Row Level Security
- Edge Functions
Serverless Edge Functions for running custom code close to users
- Storage
Object storage for files, images and videos
- Realtime
Realtime data synchronization for live/multiplayer experiences
- Vector
Vector embeddings storage, indexing and search for ML use cases
- Data APIs
Instant RESTful APIs automatically generated from your database schema
Stats they publish
Testimonials
“When you're in that first sprint of building a product, you're kind of locked with that first database decision you make. When we did a rebuild, it was time to look at something like Supabase.”
Michael Dever · CTO of HappyTeams“Responses were powerful and they answered all my questions, even on a Sunday. That just further sold the product for me.”
Michael Dever · CTO of HappyTeams“Supabase provides a fast and reliable production database”
Michael Dever · CTO of HappyTeams“Supabase is so fast. Way, way, way faster than our Heroku Postgres database, which I think was located in the same region.”
Michael Dever · CTO of HappyTeams“Supabase enabled us to move fast and focus on solving customer problems without getting bogged down by complexity.”
Raunak Kathuria · VP of Engineering, Deriv“We wanted a backend that could accelerate our development while maintaining security and scalability. Supabase stood out due to its automation, integrations, and ecosystem,” said Raunak. “Supabase integrates with tools like Twilio. We didn’t have to build our SMS One-Time Password (OTP) system. All of it is supported out of the box,” said Raunak.”
Raunak Kathuria · VP of Engineering, Deriv
Social accounts
Compliance & certifications
Founders & Team
3- Paul CopplestoneFounderCEO and Co-Founder
- Ant WilsonFounderCTO and Co-Founder
- Sugu SougoumaraneHead of Multigres
Supabase's founding team is Paul Copplestone (CEO) and Ant Wilson (CTO), as stated on Supabase-owned pages. A named product lead, Sugu Sougoumarane, is listed as Head of Multigres; other executive names appeared in aggregator sources but were not corroborated on supabase.com.
- Team size is taken from a Supabase blog post dated 09 Dec 2022 (60 people) and may be outdated.
- Additional executives (CFO, COO, others) appear in aggregator listings (e.g., Crunchbase) included in the materials but were not corroborated on supabase.com pages cited here, so they were omitted.
- No single comprehensive leadership/management page listing the full executive team was found on the cited Supabase pages; extraction is limited to names explicitly shown on supabase.com event or blog pages.
Market Size
Top-line TAM uses a published global B2B SaaS figure (USD 327.74B, 2024) because Supabase is a B2B developer/platform SaaS vendor; that broad TAM is materially larger than the specific DBaaS/developer-backend niche. A bottom-up SAM uses the global developer population (28.7M) × Supabase's implied ARPC (~USD 280) to arrive at ≈USD 8.04B. A plausible near-term obtainable SOM scenario is ≈2.5% of that SAM (≈USD 200.9M in ~3 years), anchored to Supabase's current scale ($70M ARR, ~250k customers) and recent large funding/growth; this SOM is a scenario, not a projection.
- Verified Market Research ↗USD 327.74 billion in 2024 · Global · 18.7% CAGR
- Grand View Research ↗USD 399.1 billion (2024) · Global · 12% CAGR
- Global developer population (addressable users)28.7 million developers (projected worldwide, 2024)Statista — https://www.statista.com/statistics/627312/worldwide-developer-population/
- Supabase ARR (used to compute avg revenue/customer)USD 70 million (ARR, 2025)Sacra — https://sacra.com/research/supabase-at-70m-arr-growing-250-yoy/
- Supabase paying customers (used to compute avg revenue/customer)≈ 250,000 customers (reported)Investing.com — https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/supabase-raises-500m-at-105b-valuation-in-series-f-93CH-4727263
- Average revenue per paying customer (ARPC)USD 70M ARR / 250k customers ≈ USD 280 per customer per year (2025 basis)Calculation based on Sacra (ARR) and Investing.com (customer count).
- SOM share assumption (3-year obtainable)2.5% of the computed SAM in ~3 yearsGrounded in Supabase traction: $70M ARR (2025), rapid growth (250% YoY reported), large late-stage funding (Series E / Series F coverage) and expanding enterprise adoption — see Sacra and Investing.com. This is a scenario, not a forecast.
- The TAM figure is a published B2B SaaS market value; it is much broader than Supabase's specific DBaaS / developer backend platform niche and therefore overstates the pure addressable database/developer-platform opportunity.
- SAM calculation assumes the entire global developer population is serviceable and uses Supabase's current ARPC derived from reported ARR and customer counts; that likely overstates near-term realistic paying penetration because many developers are free-tier users or never become paying customers.
- ARPC (≈USD 280) is computed from reported ARR and a reported customer count; public counts may include free accounts, non-paying trial users, or team accounts, so the ARPC is an imprecise average.
- SOM is explicitly a scenario (2.5% of SAM in ~3 years) anchored to current traction and funding; it is sensitive to assumptions about conversion of free users, enterprise sales success, pricing changes, and competitive dynamics.
- Some sources (developer counts, customer counts, funding details) come from different years (2024–2026); currency is USD unless otherwise stated.
Competitors
Top 5Postgres-first ecosystem: GraphQL engines (Hasura, Nhost), DB infra (Neon), and open-source BaaS/CMS (Appwrite, Directus). Supabase positions as hosted Postgres + full BaaS developer platform bridging infra and services.
- Hasurahasura.io ↗Instant GraphQL engine for Postgres; Supabase offers broader Postgres-hosted BaaS (auth, storage, functions), while Hasura wins for GraphQL-first API speed and flexibility.
- Nhostnhost.io ↗Postgres plus Hasura-managed GraphQL BaaS; more GraphQL-native than Supabase, but Supabase leads with richer built-in services and larger ecosystem.
- Neonneonrated.com ↗Serverless PostgreSQL with branching, autoscaling and bottomless storage; competes on DB infra—Supabase bundles DB plus BaaS features and developer tooling.
- Appwriteappwrite.io ↗Open-source self-hostable BaaS (document-model); competes on full-stack backend—Supabase differentiates via Postgres relational model and hosted managed cloud.
- Directusdirectus.com ↗Headless SQL data platform with admin UI and API; Directus targets content-heavy CMS use cases, Supabase focuses on broader app platform and developer APIs.
Funding
- SeedY Combinator leadCrunchbase ↗
- SeedCoatue leadCrunchbase ↗
- Series ACoatue leadCrunchbase ↗
- Series BFelicis leadCrunchbase ↗
- Series CCraft Ventures leadPeak XV Partners leadCrunchbase ↗
- Series DAccel leadCrunchbase ↗
- Series E$100 millionAccel leadPeak XV Partners leadPR Newswire ↗
- Series F$500 millionJune 4, 2026GIC leadAccelY CombinatorCraftFelicisPeak XVCoatueStripeSalesforce VenturesPR Newswire ↗
Supabase disclosed a $500M Series F led by GIC on June 4, 2026 (post-money $10.5B) and press also reports a prior Series E of $100M co-led by Accel and Peak XV; Crunchbase lists eight rounds in total but most earlier rounds in Crunchbase have no amounts or dates in the provided data. The company/press release states total capital raised is "over $1 billion," which exceeds the sum of itemized amounts found here.
- Crunchbase structured data lists eight rounds but does not disclose amounts or dates for most earlier rounds; those rounds are recorded here with Crunchbase as the source and no dollar amounts.
- The company press release states total capital raised is "over $1 billion," which is higher than the sum of itemized rounds ($600M); this suggests there are additional undisclosed/uncited raises or convertible/liquidity events not detailed in the provided records.
- PitchBook/Tracxn excerpts in the provided text report different totals (around $543M–$544M), creating a spread in public totals; different aggregators disagree on the full history.
- Several investor lists and earlier-round amounts/participants are referenced in untagged lines in the corpus; where a specific [SOURCE <url>] was not available for a round-level amount or participant, the round-level investors[] were left empty and the Crunchbase structured URL was used instead.
- Dates for most pre-Series F rounds are not specified in the provided sources and are therefore left null.
Momentum
- FundingJune 4, 2026Supabase closed a $500M Series F at a $10.5B post‑money valuationCNBC ↗
- LaunchJune 4, 2026Supabase released a preview of Multigres, an open-source horizontal scaling layer for PostgresPR Newswire ↗
- MilestoneMay 30, 2026Supabase set new Data API defaults for new projects to become the platform defaultReleasebot ↗
- MilestoneOctober 30, 2026Supabase scheduled enforcement of tightened Data API defaults for existing projectsReleasebot ↗
Supabase announced a $500M Series F at a $10.5B post‑money valuation (June 4, 2026) and simultaneously previewed Multigres, a horizontal scaling layer for Postgres, signalling rapid fund‑driven product expansion. The company is also rolling out platform default changes (May 30, 2026; enforcement scheduled Oct 30, 2026) that tighten Data API exposure.
- The June 4, 2026 items (funding and Multigres preview) are widely reported but originate from company announcements and press coverage tied to the round.
- Releasebot items are product/change notices from platform release notes; the October 30, 2026 date is a scheduled enforcement, not yet in effect.
- Coverage in the supplied material is concentrated around the funding and product announcement; independent usage/retention metrics beyond company statements are limited in the provided excerpts.
Customer Sentiment
11- Developer experience / onboardingMultiple reviewers praise fast onboarding, a clean dashboard, and being productive within minutes.“create account, spin up a project, copy your API keys, and you're writing queries in under 5 minutes.”Hackceleration ↗
- Full Postgres-backed feature setSupabase is repeatedly described as providing Postgres, auth, realtime, storage, instant APIs and edge functions in one platform.“provides real-time databases, authentication, and API services.”Product Hunt ↗
- Perceived value for moneySeveral reviews call Supabase cost-effective versus alternatives and highlight a generous free tier for prototyping.“Supabase offers insane value compared to alternatives.”Hackceleration ↗
- Open-source / avoids vendor lock-inUsers value Postgres underpinnings and open-source approach as a way to avoid lock-in.“Postgres underneath means I'm never locked in and never fighting a custom DSL.”Product Hunt ↗
- Responsive individual support experiences existWhile complaints about support appear elsewhere, some reviewers call out helpful, responsive support engineers.“Excellent support and a great experience overall.”Trustpilot ↗
- Free-tier projects paused / account suspensionsSeveral Trustpilot reviewers report projects being paused or shut down for inactivity, which disrupts early-stage or planning-phase projects.“Free plan (almost) useless - they keep pausing!”Trustpilot ↗
- Short inactivity window / project shutdown timingUsers say the inactivity cutoff is too short for real-world workflows (planning, docs, low-activity projects).“A 7-day inactivity window feels unnecessarily restrictive for a project that is still in its design phase.”Trustpilot ↗
- Billing / account handling problemsAt least one reviewer reports a paid Pro account being suspended mid-cycle and files a chargeback; complaints cite automated or unsatisfactory support replies.“They suspended my service on May 19, day 6 of the paid 30-day cycle, citing the FREE-tier storage quota that doesn't apply to paid Pro accounts.”Trustpilot ↗
- Docs, auth UX and pricing gapsCommunity reviewers request clearer docs, smoother auth flows and a mid-tier between Pro and Enterprise for solo founders.“Criticism is lighter but consistent: some want better docs, smoother auth UX, fewer edge-function cold starts, and more flexible pricing.”Product Hunt ↗
- Edge function cold startsEdge Functions (Deno runtime) have non-trivial cold starts that may require warming strategies for latency-sensitive endpoints.“Edge Functions use Deno runtime, which is modern and secure, though the cold start times (200-400ms) require warming strategies for latency-sensitive endpoints.”Hackceleration ↗
- Some founders report reliability/expectation gapsA longform reviewer states Supabase can 'over-promise or under-deliver' in areas important to startup founders, requiring workarounds.“Yet it over-promises or under-delivers in areas I consider essential as a startup tech founder.”Medium ↗
Public sentiment is mixed: developer communities and product reviewers praise Supabase's Postgres-based feature set, onboarding and value, while Trustpilot reviewers report recurring operational issues (project pausing, account suspensions, and billing disputes). Both strong technical praise and recent customer-service complaints appear in the record, so risk/reward depends on tolerance for account/ops friction.
- Signals combine community aggregators (Product Hunt, G2), a consumer review site (Trustpilot), and single-author/editorial reviews; these sources have different biases and audience mixes.
- Product Hunt and G2 reviews are strongly positive and large in count, while Trustpilot contains a smaller but vocal set of recent operational/billing complaints (2025-2026).
- Some cited items are single-author reviews or editorial tests (Hackceleration, Medium) rather than broad user panels; not an exhaustive crawl of every review channel.
AI Visibility
We ask ChatGPT WITH web search about the company and show its answers plus the sources it cited — the real AI-search experience. The key signal is share of voice: does the company come up when AI is asked about its space, not just when asked by name.
Models asked ChatGPT · web search
Accuracy of what AI said: Partly accurate — The assistant correctly identifies Supabase as an open-source BaaS offering hosted Postgres, auth, realtime, storage and edge functions and names the correct co‑founders; funding, valuation and employee figures in the response appear unsupported or potentially inaccurate.
Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that provides developers with a suite of tools to build and scale applications. Founded in 2020 by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson, the company offers a managed PostgreSQL database along with authentication, instant APIs, serverless functions, file storage, and real-time data synchronization. (en.wikipedia.org)
Founders and Leadership:
- Paul Copplestone: Co-founder and CEO, previously served as CTO of Nimbus For Work. (wayfinder.com)
- Ant Wilson: Co-founder and CTO, with experience in distributed computing and blockchain research. (wayfinder.com)
Company Size and Stage:
- Employees: Approximately 200 as of 2026. (forbes.com)
- Funding: Raised a total of $496.13 million, with the latest round being a growth equity investment on April 3, 2026. (caplight.com)
- Valuation: Estimated at $10 billion as of April 2026. (caplight.com)
Notable Facts:
- Supabase serves over 4 million developers and manages more than 3.5 million databases. (en.wikipedia.org)
- The company reached unicorn status in 2025, achieving a valuation of $5.1 billion following a Series E funding round in October 2025. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Supabase has been recognized on Forbes' list of America's Best Startup Employers in 2026, ranking at #189. (forbes.com)
- The platform is widely adopted by startups, with approximately 40% of recent Y Combinator cohorts using Supabase. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Supabase operates on a tiered pricing model, offering free, pro, and enterprise tiers to cater to different customer needs. (en.wikipedia.org)
Supabase continues to expand its offerings and community engagement, positioning itself as a leading open-source alternative to Firebase.
Here is a concise list of notable companies and products in the PostgreSQL development platform space:
- EnterpriseDB (EDB): Offers EDB Postgres Advanced Server, an enterprise-ready, Oracle-compatible PostgreSQL solution. (enterprisedb.com)
- Postgres Professional: Provides Postgres Pro, a fast and reliable DBMS tailored for high-load systems. (postgrespro.com)
- PlanetScale: Delivers fully-managed, high-availability PostgreSQL database clusters with modern cloud infrastructure. (planetscale.com)
- Supabase: An open-source backend-as-a-service platform offering hosted PostgreSQL databases with additional features like authentication and real-time subscriptions. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Crunchy Data: Provides enterprise PostgreSQL solutions with a focus on security and high availability. (crunchydata.com)
- pgEdge: Offers pgEdge Distributed Postgres, a fully distributed (multi-master) PostgreSQL solution built on standard community Postgres. (pgedge.com)
- DBmaestro: Provides a database DevOps platform enabling automation of various stages of the database development lifecycle. (en.wikipedia.org)
- BairesDev: Offers PostgreSQL development services, including high availability, performance monitoring, and cloud-native deployments. (bairesdev.com)
- credativ: Specializes in open-source software, offering PostgreSQL support and development services. (credativ.de)
- PostgreSQL Global Development Group: The primary organization behind the development and maintenance of PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open-source relational database. (en.wikipedia.org)
In the PostgreSQL development platform space, several companies and products stand out for their contributions and services:
- EnterpriseDB (EDB): A leading provider of enterprise-class software and services based on PostgreSQL. EDB offers enhanced performance, security, and manageability features, along with compatibility tools for migrating from Oracle databases. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Supabase: An open-source Backend as a Service (BaaS) platform that provides developers with a hosted PostgreSQL database, authentication, real-time subscriptions, file storage, and serverless edge functions. It's positioned as an open-source alternative to Firebase. (en.wikipedia.org)
- pgEdge: Specializes in distributed PostgreSQL solutions. Their pgEdge Cloud Developer Edition is a serverless distributed Postgres managed cloud service designed for low latency and high availability. (pgedge.com)
- Tembo: Offers a Postgres developer platform for building various data services. Tembo provides pre-built PostgreSQL configurations and deployments, enabling developers to create and deploy specialized data services efficiently. (postgresql.org)
- Aiven: Provides a fully managed, open-source cloud data platform, including PostgreSQL. Aiven enables developers to focus on application development while managing cloud data infrastructure. (f6s.com)
- DBmaestro: Offers a DevOps platform that includes database release automation solutions for PostgreSQL, streamlining database changes and reducing time to market for applications. (devops.com)
These companies and products offer a range of tools and services to support PostgreSQL development, catering to various needs from database management to application development.
The assistant consistently surfaces Supabase when asked about PostgreSQL/Postgres development platforms (strong visibility). Its product description is reliable for technical positioning, but financial and headcount claims should be verified from primary sources before relying on them in diligence.
- Answers from web-enabled assistants can vary between runs and may mix sources of differing reliability.
- Funding, valuation and employee numbers cited by the assistant should be checked against filings, press releases, or primary reporting rather than taken at face value.
Risks & Red Flags
- SecuritymediumJanuary 2026Bastion reported that Moltbook exposed 1.5 million API keys due to a misconfigured Supabase database with Row Level Security disabledBastion ↗
- SecurityhighMarch 2026BotBeat reported a Supabase customer suffered a complete production database loss after a PostgreSQL upgrade and PITR failed to restoreBotBeat ↗
- SecuritymediumFebruary 12, 2026Supabase reported a major outage on February 12, 2026 that impacted the us-east-2 region due to a configuration error enabling AWS VPC Block Public AccessSupabase
- SecuritymediumMarchMay 2026isdown.app recorded multiple Supabase service incidents between March and May 2026 including degraded logging, SSO/email login issues, and zone-specific network problemsisdown.app ↗
- RegulatorymediumFebruary 2026TechCrunch reported that an Indian government blocking order in February 2026 disrupted access to Supabase in IndiaTechCrunch ↗
Public reports in 2026 document multiple operational and security incidents involving Supabase services: a third-party app (Moltbook) leaked API keys via a misconfigured Supabase database; a customer reported complete production data loss after a PostgreSQL upgrade and failed PITR restore; and Supabase experienced region-wide outages and multiple service disruptions. Additionally, access to Supabase was reported disrupted in India by a governmental blocking order.
- Supabase published (and the search noted) SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance achieved in August 2023; that certification is a mitigating datapoint but does not negate the operational incidents reported in 2026.
- Some incidents reported (for example the Moltbook API-key exposure) were caused by customer-side misconfiguration per the reporting; the flags reflect publicly reported events and do not assign blame beyond the sources' statements.
- No publicly reported lawsuits, regulatory fines, executive departures, or funding distress were found in the reviewed sources; absence of such reports is not a clean bill of health for a large cloud service provider.
Frequently asked questions
What does Supabase do?
Supabase is the Postgres development platform offering hosted Postgres, Authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, Realtime, Storage and Vector embeddings.
How much funding has Supabase raised?
Supabase has raised over $1 billion in disclosed funding. Its most recent disclosed round was a $500 million Series F in 2026, led by GIC.
Who are Supabase's main competitors?
Supabase's named competitors include Hasura, Nhost, Neon and Appwrite.
Who founded Supabase?
Supabase was founded by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson.
Where is Supabase headquartered?
Supabase is headquartered in Singapore.
What market does Supabase operate in?
Supabase operates in the Postgres development platform market (B2B). Its total addressable market is estimated at USD 327.74 billion (2024).
How does Supabase's pricing work?
Supabase uses a freemium pricing model.
Compiled by AlgoTurk from public web sources · . Not investment advice.