$5 PlanetScale is live

PlanetScale has launched its $5 single node Postgres databases, offering a cost-effective solution for startups, side projects, and development environments without high availability (HA) features. These databases come with PlanetScale's developer-friendly tools, such as Query Insights, schema recommendations, and branching. The price for development branches has also been reduced to $5 per month. Users can easily scale their databases vertically by selecting different cluster sizes or switch to HA mode for added reliability. For those needing horizontal scaling in the future, PlanetScale is developing Neki, a sharded Postgres solution, ensuring that businesses can grow without the need to switch database providers. With PlanetScale's experience in managing some of the web's largest workloads, users can be confident in the platform's reliability and scalability.