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Supabase pricing cliff forces expensive upgrade for solo builders

🧭 workproduct problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 3/5

A solo builder reports that Supabase's pricing model forces an immediate jump from a free tier to a $25/month Pro tier when egress limits are exceeded, with no intermediate options for small-scale projects. The user notes that exceeding the 5GB egress cap causes the entire application to hard-fail, breaking user-facing features like login and signups, which creates significant operational risk for small developers.

Who's affected: A solo builder running sqlquest.app

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

🔧 Fix this

Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. Develop a 'pay-as-you-go' overage billing model for egress that allows projects to stay online without forcing a jump to the full Pro tier.
  2. Create a 'Solo' tier priced between $5-$10/month that offers higher egress limits than the free tier but fewer enterprise features than the Pro tier.
  3. Implement a 'soft-fail' or 'grace period' system that sends alerts when approaching limits instead of immediately disabling all API requests.
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Real voices

“Instead of a soft warning or overage billing, the project hard-fails. Every API request returns 402.”

Source: Hacker News

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