What are the Supabase free tier limits in 2026?
Quick Answer: As of May 2026, the Supabase free tier includes 500 MB database storage, 1 GB file storage, 5 GB bandwidth, 50,000 monthly active users, two free projects, unlimited API requests within those limits, and 7-day log retention. Projects are paused after one week of inactivity on the free tier.
Supabase Free Tier (as of May 2026)
Supabase, founded in 2020, is an open-source Firebase alternative offering Postgres, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector embeddings. The free tier covers small projects and prototypes.
What's included
- 2 free projects per organization
- 500 MB Postgres database per project
- 1 GB file storage per project
- 5 GB bandwidth/month
- 50,000 monthly active users (Auth)
- 500,000 Edge Function invocations/month
- Unlimited API requests within the bandwidth cap
- 7 days of log retention
- Community support
Important free-tier behavior
Free-tier projects are paused after one week of inactivity. They can be restored from the dashboard, but pausing means the project is not reachable until restored. This makes the free tier unsuitable for production workloads that go quiet for periods longer than a week.
Free vs Pro vs Team
| Feature | Free | Pro ($25/mo) | Team ($599/mo) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Projects | 2 | unlimited paid | unlimited paid |
| Database | 500 MB | 8 GB included | 8 GB included |
| Storage | 1 GB | 100 GB included | 100 GB included |
| Bandwidth | 5 GB | 250 GB included | 250 GB included |
| MAUs | 50,000 | 100,000 included | 100,000 included |
| Log retention | 7 days | 7 days | 28 days |
| Inactivity pause | Yes (1 week) | No | No |
| SOC 2 reports | No | No | Yes |
When to Upgrade
- The project is in production and cannot afford an inactivity pause.
- Database or storage is approaching the free cap.
- The team needs daily backups (Pro tier).
- The application requires SOC 2 evidence (Team tier).
Caveats
These limits reflect Supabase's pricing as of May 2026. Limits and pricing have shifted several times in past years; confirm current numbers on supabase.com/pricing before architecting around specific caps. Edge Function invocations and Realtime concurrent connections are billed separately above the free quota.
Editor's Note: Across ShadowGen prototypes on Supabase Free in 2024-26, the limit that catches teams is not the 500 MB database or the 50,000 monthly active users; it is the pause. A Free project with no API requests for seven days goes offline until someone manually restores it, which we have watched take down a client's staging environment over a quiet holiday week. For anything a stakeholder might open unannounced we either keep a scheduled request alive or move it to Pro. The data survives the pause, but the downtime does not look good in a live demo. — Rafal Fila, ShadowGen
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