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 I honestly don't know how we'd have accomplished as much without it. I don't miss spending days writing Terraform, deploying and managing message queues, and about a dozen other things that Encore took of our plates."
— 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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