Supabase billing you $110/mo for Postgres you could have for $15?

Just the Postgres.
No MAU fees. No egress. No anon key.

Basely provisions isolated Postgres databases in under a second. Bring your own auth (Clerk, Better Auth, whatever). Pay a flat rate that doesn't scale with your users.

Standard Postgres connection string. No SDK lock-in. Works with Prisma, Drizzle, or raw pg.

No anon key

A May 2025 CVE found 10% of Supabase apps had tables fully readable via the public anon key. Basely has no anon key — your schema is only accessible via your scoped connection string.

No shared superuser

Supabase's SQL editor runs as the Postgres superuser, silently bypassing RLS. Every Basely project is an isolated schema + scoped role. Nothing else has access.

Predictable cost

Supabase's real production baseline is $110–120/mo after compute upgrades. Add $1,300/mo for auth at 500k users. Basely: $15/mo flat. No compute tiers, no egress, no MAU meter.

Basely vs Supabase

For teams who need Postgres, not a full BaaS.

Supabase
Basely
Monthly baseline (production-ready)
$110–120/mo
$15/mo
Auth at 500k MAUs
+$1,300/mo
Bring your own (free)
Egress fees
$0.09/GB after 250 GB
None
Surprise bills
Common (compute + egress)
Flat rate, no surprises
Anon key / public API
Yes — CVE affects 10% of apps
No anon key, ever
Connection string ownership
Abstracted behind SDK
Standard Postgres URI, yours
Provisioning time
30–60 seconds
Under 1 second
MCP / AI agent tools
Bolted on
Primary interface
Auth, storage, realtime
Included
Bring your own

* Supabase baseline: Small compute ($15) is too weak for production; Medium ($60) + Pro ($25) + egress = $110–120/mo typical. Auth at 500k MAUs based on published Supabase pricing.

Who switches to Basely

Teams replacing Supabase Auth

You moved to Clerk, Better Auth, or Lucia because Supabase Auth hit the MAU wall. Keep the Postgres — move it here. Flat rate, standard connection string, no re-architecture.

Indie devs running multiple projects

Supabase free tier pauses after 7 days. Pro covers 1 project. Builder covers 10 projects at $15/mo total — not $25 per project.

AI agents that need a database

Claude and Cursor can create a project, run migrations, execute queries, and generate TypeScript types in a single prompt — with no human in the loop. MCP-native from day one.

Startups tired of surprise bills

Egress charges, compute tier jumps, MAU overages. Basely is $15/mo. That's the whole bill. No meters running in the background.

MCP — built for AI agents

Add to Claude Desktop or Cursor. Your agent can provision, migrate, and query without any human steps.

json
// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "basely": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@basely-cli/cli", "mcp"],
      "env": {
        "BASELY_API_URL": "https://api.basely.cc",
        "BASELY_API_KEY": "bly_..."
      }
    }
  }
}
bash
# Tell Claude:
"Create a Postgres project called myapp, run this migration:
  CREATE TABLE users (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, email TEXT UNIQUE NOT NULL);
then generate TypeScript types."

# Claude calls in sequence — no human steps:
create_project  → DB ready, connection string returned
apply_migration → schema applied
gen_types       → TypeScript interfaces written to src/db.ts

CLI quickstart

Works with any Postgres client — Prisma, Drizzle, raw pg, psql.

bash
# Install
npm install -g @basely-cli/cli

# Connect
basely auth setup --url https://api.basely.cc --key <your-key>

# Create a database (under a second)
basely projects create myapp

# Run a migration
basely migration push myapp --name 001_init --file schema.sql

# Generate TypeScript types
basely gen types myapp --out src/db.ts

REST API

POST/auth/signup
POST/auth/login
POST/auth/keys
POST/projects
GET/projects
POST/projects/:id/query
GET/projects/:id/schema
POST/projects/:id/migrations
DELETE/projects/:id

Pricing

Flat rate. No credit card to start. No meters.

No egress fees · No MAU fees · No compute tiers · No surprise charges

Hobby
$0forever
  • 1 project
  • Never pauses
  • Daily backups
  • Community support
Start free
Indie
$5/ month
  • 3 projects
  • Never pauses
  • Daily backups
  • Email support — 24h response
Get started
Builder
$15/ month
  • 10 projects
  • Never pauses
  • Daily backups
  • Priority support — same day
Get started

Running Supabase in production? You're likely paying $110–120/mo before auth overages. Switch to Basely for $15/mo.