PlanetScale · infrastructure · founded 2018
PlanetScale for humans
PlanetScale brought Vitess-grade MySQL branching and non-blocking schema changes to startups. The deploy-request workflow is the human metaphor. The CLI and API are excellent, which keeps the agent score high even as the company has shifted packaging over time. We describe the public branching-database product, not every SKU rename. Twin Score on this directory is 78 for humans and 90 for agents, using the public rubric (interface, onboarding, human docs, collaboration, support, pricing fairness, accessibility, reliability versus API quality, MCP or tool surface, CLI, structured docs, machine auth, quotas, determinism, and skill packaging). PlanetScale is sold by PlanetScale, founded 2018, headquartered in San Francisco, USA. Pricing in public materials: Hobby through scalable paid plans; Vitess-powered clustering historically, with Postgres offerings evolving. Machine capabilities we record: API excellent, MCP none, CLI excellent, docs excellent, auth Service tokens. This page is editorial, not a star rating scraped from users.
Updated 2026-08-01. Editorial, not a user-count rating.
Edited by Edu Tor. Twin Score updated 2026-08-01. Method: methodology and rubric.
Twin page for agents: PlanetScale on Build Something Agents Want.
Capability matrix
This matrix is the same data agents see. MCP is listed only when a real surface exists — we do not fake a manifest.
API, MCP, CLI, docs, auth
| Surface | Level |
|---|---|
| API | excellent |
| MCP | none |
| CLI | excellent |
| Docs | excellent |
| Auth | Service tokens |
| SDKs | http, sql |
Pricing and facts
Hobby through scalable paid plans; Vitess-powered clustering historically, with Postgres offerings evolving. Headquarters: San Francisco, USA. Official site: https://planetscale.com.
Editorial reviews
- PlanetScale for humans: an editorial Twin Score review — editorial · staff
- PlanetScale for agents: capability notes — editorial · staff