Encore Cloud vs Supabase
See why thousands of developers choose Encore Cloud's developer-first cloud platform over other solutions
"We've run Encore in production for over 2 years and it's hard to overstate just how much it's taken off our plates when it comes to provisioning and deploying services and maintaining extremely high uptime. We've reduced time spent on DevOps by 95% — seriously the amount of time we used to spend on Terraform and k8s was stupid."
— Mason Stewart, CTO of Bookshop.org
Development Approach
Encore Cloud
Full backend development platform with microservices support- Native PostgreSQL with pgvector for AI use cases
- Event-driven architecture support
- Kubernetes and custom infrastructure support
- Type-safe infrastructure definitions
Supabase
- PostgreSQL with pgvector support
Limited Backend-as-a-Service approach- No event-driven architecture support
- No Kubernetes or custom infrastructure support
- No type-safe infrastructure definitions
Infrastructure control
Full backend development platform vs Backend-as-a-Service
Encore Cloud gives you complete control over your backend architecture while maintaining the simplicity of a managed platform. Unlike BaaS solutions, you're never limited by the platform's capabilities.
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Developer Experience
Encore Cloud
- Native TypeScript or Go development with full language features
- Automatic API documentation and type-safe clients
- Distributed tracing and metrics built-in
- Local development with production parity
- AI-powered development assistance
Supabase
- Limited to JavaScript/TypeScript edge functions
- Manual documentation
- No separation of concern between frontend and backend
- Basic logging without distributed tracing
- Limited local development capabilities
- No integrated AI development tools
Faster development
Streamlined Development with Built-in Best Practices
Encore's development experience is built around an AI-native framework optimized for code generation. It comes complete with automatic API documentation, type safety, and infrastructure as code built in.
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Infrastructure & Deployment
Encore Cloud
- Deploy to Encore Cloud hosting, AWS, or GCP.
- Automatic infrastructure provisioning
- Built-in secrets management and IAM
- Automatic preview environments
- Zero-downtime deployments
Supabase
- Hosted only on Supabase infrastructure
- Basic secrets management
- No preview environments
Less DevOps overhead
Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure Without the Complexity
Deploy to your own cloud with zero configuration while maintaining complete control over your infrastructure and costs.
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Scalability & Performance
Encore Cloud
- Independent service scaling
- Global distribution support
- Automatic load balancing
- Background job processing
- Caching and performance optimization
Supabase
- Basic load balancing
- Monolithic scaling only
- Limited regional deployment options
- Limited background processing
- Basic caching capabilities
Scalability
Enterprise-Ready Scale from Day One
Build with confidence knowing your application can scale from prototype to enterprise without architecture changes.
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