Pricing behavior — Serverless Platforms
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Pricing
Pricing for Supabase Edge Functions
How pricing changes as you scale: upgrade triggers, cost cliffs, and plan structure (not a live price list).
Sources linked — see verification below.
Freshness & verification
Pricing behavior (not a price list)
These points describe when users typically pay more and what usage patterns trigger upgrades.
Actions that trigger upgrades
- Need broader triggers/queues and event topology beyond the platform
- Runtime constraints block required libraries or workload patterns
- Growing traffic makes cost/limits the primary bottleneck
What gets expensive first
- Architecture choices deepen platform coupling over time
- Edge data locality can become visible as features grow
- Observability needs increase sharply as functions become business-critical
- Migration cost rises once auth/data flows assume platform defaults
Plans and variants (structural only)
Grouped by type to show structure, not to rank or recommend SKUs.
Plans
- Supabase-native extension - app glue lane - Best when you’re already building on Supabase and want auth-aware endpoints quickly.
- Edge constraints - design around limits - Keep functions lightweight and validate dependencies and runtime ceilings early.
- Upgrade path - when you outgrow it - Plan the handoff to a broader serverless baseline if triggers/queues and topology expand.
- Official docs: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/functions
Next step: constraints + what breaks first
Pricing tells you the cost cliffs; constraints tell you what forces a redesign.
Open the full decision brief →Sources & verification
Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.