Supabase offers a different path to building modern applications by exposing a secure, auto-generated REST and GraphQL API for every table, view, and stored procedure in the public schema of your Postgres database. This reduces weeks of infrastructure work into minutes without sacrificing flexibility or control. Supabase's API layer compresses complexity, allowing developers to focus on product development while maintaining control over their data. The platform provides auto-generated client libraries, supports features like filters, pagination, and GraphQL, and offers tools for building custom API endpoints through Database Functions and Edge Functions. By eliminating the need for manual middleware, Supabase simplifies architecture, reduces technical debt, and cuts cloud spend, providing a unified data plane for application logic, internal services, and external integrations. The platform also ensures security through Row Level Security (RLS) policies enforced by the database itself, authentication via JWTs, and regional project hosting with Data Processing Agreements and more.