Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 13 → 17 of 70
1 category · RankedPlanetScale
62Judge labels
0First choices
24Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Managed databases for mid-market buyers
Rank 22 of 82 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 29% of its 17 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of PlanetScale →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business51 of 74
0%34 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market22 of 82
0%17 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise92 of 92
0%10 labels
criticized challenger
In managed databases · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named PlanetScale for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed relational databases | Data platform | 0% | 22 of 82 | 29% | 17 | criticized challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, PlanetScale held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Managed databases · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 13 → 38 of 72
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 71 → 80 of 81
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed databases | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 13 → 22 of 82 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated PlanetScale across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated PlanetScale across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative12 labelsNone
Budget-constrained10 labelsNone
Scale-constrained9 labelsNone
Negative23 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative62 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Free hobby tier (5 GB read/write), scales to $39/mo Pro. Great for sharding/high-scale MySQL needs.” Grok 4.20 · Managed databases · budget prompt · alternative
“a common alternative for MySQL/PostgreSQL-heavy teams is PlanetScale” Perplexity Sonar · Managed databases · comparative prompt · alternative
“or PlanetScale (MySQL)—fewer complaints but smaller scale” Grok 4.20 · Managed databases · negative prompt · alternative
“The High-Scale & MySQL Choice: PlanetScale” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“The managed database services you should avoid—or approach with high caution... PlanetScale... can lead to astronomical, unexpected bills overnight.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · negative prompt · hard negative
“PlanetScale shut down its managed database service for new users in 2023, so it is effectively no longer an option” Mistral Small · Managed databases · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid PlanetScale — they killed their free tier and start at $39/month, making them a poor budget choice.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: - PlanetScale (proven instability, business model risk)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as PlanetScale, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PlanetScale was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as PlanetScale, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PlanetScale was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named PlanetScale. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 57 of the 62 answers that named PlanetScale and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
it-ai-index.com37
g2.com35
digitalocean.com31
northflank.com24
aws.amazon.com19
tech-insider.org17
gitnux.org16
planetscale.comYour site16
sourceforge.net15
zipdo.co14
208 of the 224 domain citations in answers naming PlanetScale came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
planetscale.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, PlanetScale takes 0% of first choices and Amazon RDS takes 45%.ShowHide
Search and answers
planetscale.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, PlanetScale takes 0% of first choices and Amazon RDS takes 45%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “managed relational database service”
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not in the top ten
Position for “managed relational database services”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 5,400 a month (“planetscale”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 95 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 21,966 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 4,684 · 305 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 4,568
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess1 ads · 1 text · 0 shown in the last 30 days
First shown May 2026, as Planetscale Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 1 in the year.
On Google's pages: 1
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 22 of 82 in managed databases
Segment leader
45%
Amazon RDS
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 62 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 57 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on planetscale.com
1,510
subdomains included
Content
488
counted in the table below
Documentation
992
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 300 | 22 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 124 | 2 | 2026-09-01 | ||
| Conference or event | 23 | 4 | 2026-11-09 | ||
| Report or ebook | 14 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 13 | 2 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Case study | 12 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-11-09Kubecon na 2026 conference or event
- 2026-09-28Hot shards hotter tenants blog
- 2026-09-25When to choose x86 64 vs aarch64 comparison
- 2026-09-23Searching hn with tin blog
- 2026-09-22Anatomy of a postgres search engine blog
- 2026-09-21How to make a replication slot survive a cutover blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page planetscale.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as PlanetScale
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as PlanetScale; a claim can dispute any of them.
PlanetScale (MySQL-compatible) 1
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An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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The company
PlanetScale is its own company.ShowHide
The company
PlanetScale is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud databases
- For
- workloads that outgrow a single node
- Price stated
- PlanetScale Postgres starts at $5 per month; PlanetScale Metal starts at $50 per month planetscale.com
- Starting price
- 5 planetscale.com
- Certifications
- SOC 1 Type 2SOC 2 Type 2+ HIPAA compliancePCI DSS 4.0 compliance as a Level 1 Service ProviderHIPAA Business Associate Agreements available on all plansPCI DSS certified service provider
- Hosting
- AWSGCPAWS us-east-1any AWS or GCP region with at least 3 availability zones
- Customers named
- Cash AppFinDepotDubSupermemoryMyFitnessPalBarstool SportsAutumn
- Not stated on the pages read
- Free plan or trial, integrations
What PlanetScale's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: planetscale.com, planetscale.com/pricing, trust.planetscale.com, planetscale.com/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when PlanetScale's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as PlanetScale, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for PlanetScale by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where PlanetScale is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name PlanetScale, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.