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PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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231 points ryanvogel | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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reducesuffering ◴[30 Oct 25 21:02 UTC] No.45765316[source]▶
I like PlanetScale, but they already have precedent very recently for having a free-tier and then cancelling it for a minimum of $40/month plan, which made many people switch. What's to stop them from doing the same here?

Be wary of building a cheap hobby project on it expecting pricing to stay consistent. If $40+ isn't feasible for you, you may be trying to switch off to a hosted PostgreSQL option, with all the pain MySQL->Postgres entails, soon.

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1. davidryal ◴[31 Oct 25 14:27 UTC] No.45772335[source]▶
free tiers are a subsidy paid by either VCs or paid users that in some cases can function as a marketing cost, if the free tier is time-limited and thus represents a finite cost to the business.

far better to just have transparent pricing that takes customer needs into account. bravo planetscale