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Supabase

80Judge labels
8First choices
12Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
11% in Managed databases for small business buyers
Rank 7 of 73 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 27% of its 22 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
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 Supabase 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Managed relational databasesData platform4%7 of 7327%22criticized challenger
NoSQL databasesData platform0%27 of 720%2under 10 labels · led by MongoDB at 59%
Customer identity and access managementIdentity and access0%35 of 740%1under 10 labels · led by Auth0 at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Supabase yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Supabase across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00011
Gemini 3.5 Flash06006
Perplexity Sonar00011
Grok 4.1 Fast02002
Mistral Small00011
DeepSeek V4 Flash00123
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash13105
Kimi K212003
GLM 4.7 FlashX01012
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct10 labelsNone
Paraphrase15 labels2
Comparative14 labels9not counted in share
Budget-constrained14 labels5
Scale-constrained12 labels1
Negative15 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative80 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 17 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.

“Supabase is widely considered the best value for money” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice
“or Supabase if you want an integrated backend platform” Kimi K2 · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice
“Supabase (or Neon if you want pure serverless Postgres with branching)” Kimi K2 · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“### PostgreSQL (specifically Heroku Postgres, Supabase, or RDS for PostgreSQL)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · 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.

“Why be cautious: If you only need a database, Supabase's full-stack platform (auth+DB+storage) can lead to overpaying.” Mistral Small · Managed databases · negative prompt · soft negative
“But for a mid-sized B2B company, I'd still usually choose a mainstream managed Postgres service first” GPT-5.4 mini · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“usually better fits for smaller teams or product-led startups than a typical B2B ops environment” Perplexity Sonar · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“good free tier, but be aware of its VC funding and the "free tier can change" risk” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Supabase, over the 80 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Supabase was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Amazon RDS52 of 8010Not in the top three
Neon51 of 804Not in the top three
Google Cloud SQL45 of 805Not in the top three
PlanetScale39 of 801Not in the top three
Azure SQL Database36 of 801Not in the top three
DigitalOcean Managed Databases29 of 807Not in the top three
Amazon Aurora22 of 804Not in the top three
Render Postgres14 of 800Not in the top three
CockroachDB13 of 800Not in the top three
MongoDB10 of 807Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Supabase. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 45 of the 80 answers that named Supabase and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com23
northflank.com21
tech-insider.org20
toolradar.com18
cloudexpat.com16
worldmetrics.org16
digitalocean.com15
aws.amazon.com14
auxiliar.ai13
estuary.dev12

168 of the 168 domain citations in answers naming Supabase came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Supabase

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Supabase; a claim can dispute any of them.
Supabase/Firestore 1
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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at supabase.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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