Open-source alternatives to PlanetScale
One open-source project is offered as a replacement for PlanetScale: TiDB. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.
Side by side
Each one, briefly
TiDB40,654 stars · permissive · activeTiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.
Where this comes from
Which projects are offered against PlanetScale comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for PlanetScale. Browse every open-source alternative.