Supabase

The open source Firebase alternative

5.0•695 reviews•

34K followers

The open source Firebase alternative

5.0•695 reviews•

34K followers

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Databases and backend frameworks

Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service that provides real-time databases, authentication, and API services. It enables developers to build and scale applications quickly without managing server infrastructure.

Supabase Reviews

The community submitted 695 reviews to tell us what they like about Supabase, what Supabase can do better, and more.

5.0

Based on 695 reviews

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Reviewers broadly see Supabase as a fast, practical all-in-one backend that makes it easy to launch with Postgres, auth, storage, APIs, and real-time features without much infrastructure work. They repeatedly praise the developer experience, clean UI, strong docs, and open-source, extensible Postgres core, often favoring it over Firebase. Founders of

Greta

Pretty Prompt

, and

Aident AI

say it helped them ship quickly, though some note rough edges: finicky local setup, scattered docs, tricky auth UX, inactivity suspensions, and limited free-tier capacity.

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Pros

authentication features (56)

PostgreSQL integration (40)

easy setup (35)

scalable infrastructure (32)

real-time capabilities (26)

developer experience (25)

open source (24)

storage solutions (23)

fast performance (16)

seamless integration (15)

Cons

documentation gaps (3)

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used

Supabase

to build Runo 2.0

•5 reviews

Supabase made it incredibly easy to set up auth, database, and real-time sync. The generous free tier and excellent React Native support sealed the deal.

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Supabase

to build Lost Post

•2 reviews

Versatile toolset (auth, edge functions), pretty easy to setup.

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Supabase

to build Flowstep

•3 reviews

Lets us focus on building what matters most

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Supabase

to build Rumora

•12 reviews

Kudos to the team of Supabase for making it easy to store vasts amounts of data and have AI access and analyze it in a snap. Feel like execution times for Supabase functions could be longer on higher tiers though.

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Supabase

to build stagecaptions.io instead of Firebase, Prisma

•3 reviews

Supabase powers our backend and authentication. It allowed us to build Stage Captions faster with a solid database, auth, and real-time capabilities, while keeping the stack simple and scalable.

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I chose Supabase over other competitors because it’s incredibly straightforward to work with while still being powerful. The UI is clean and intuitive, making it easy to manage databases, storage, and authentication without digging through complex docs. Setting up projects and integrating storage is seamless, and connecting it to AI or LLM models for coding tasks just works out of the box. I also love how easy it is to manage permissions and row-level access—everything feels transparent and simple, which saves me a lot of time and mental overhead compared with other competitors' sometimes opaque rules systems.