# Supabase

The Postgres development platform. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.

Repository: https://github.com/supabase/supabase
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/supabase
Homepage: https://supabase.com
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: firebase, supabase, realtime, postgrest, postgres, postgresql, websockets, deno, embeddings, vectors, alternative, auth, database, example, nextjs, oauth2, pgvector, postgis, ai
Last push: 2026-08-27T00:39:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 96, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2517, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 26, "gap_med": 28.0, "n_releases_24m": 15}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 108441, forks 13655 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:23.804579+00:00)

## What it is
Supabase is an open-source Postgres development platform that bundles a hosted (or self-hosted) Postgres database with authentication, auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs, realtime subscriptions, edge functions, file storage, and a vector/embeddings toolkit for AI apps. It aims to provide a Firebase-like developer experience built on enterprise-grade open source tools.

## Use cases
- add a postgres backend with auth to my web app
- firebase alternative with a real sql database
- auto-generate rest and graphql apis from my database schema
- realtime subscriptions for live updates in my app
- store and query vector embeddings for rag
- self-host a backend-as-a-service platform
- upload and serve user files with access control
- build a mobile app backend with flutter or swift

## When to choose
- you want a full backend (database, auth, storage, APIs) without building it yourself
- you prefer Postgres and SQL over Firebase's NoSQL model
- you need realtime data sync or vector search for AI applications
- you want the option to self-host or develop locally

## When to avoid
- you need a lightweight single-purpose library rather than a full platform
- your workload requires a database other than Postgres
- you cannot accept cloud or self-hosted infrastructure dependencies

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: stable
- function: database, auth, authorization, api-framework, websocket, object-storage, vector-database, llm-inference, rag, cli, sdk, graphql, self-hosted
- domain: databases, backend, web-development, developer-tools, self-hosted, large-language-models, apis
- platform: self-hosted, cloud, python, cross-platform, cli
- tags: firebase-alternative, postgres, backend-as-a-service, edge-functions, pgvector, auto-generated-apis, realtime-subscriptions, file-storage, supabase-js, mcp, real-time, web-server, docker, nodejs

## Member repositories
- supabase/supabase (main) score 98
- supabase/realtime (backend) score 95
- supabase/supabase-js (sdk) score 95
- supabase/pg_graphql (plugin) score 91
- supabase/mcp (plugin) score 88
- supabase/supabase-py (sdk) score 95
- supabase/agent-skills (plugin) score 81
- supabase/auth (backend) score 99
- supabase/cli (infra) score 95
- supabase/postgres (infra) score 95
- supabase/index_advisor (plugin) score 21
- supabase/ui (frontend) score 10
- supabase/storage (backend) score 95
- supabase/supabase-swift (sdk) score 94
- supabase/postgrest-js (sdk) score 10
- supabase/postgres-meta (backend) score 98
- supabase/pg_jsonschema (plugin) score 76
- supabase/supabase-flutter (sdk) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:23.804579+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:12:09.729944+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/supabase/supabase (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:23.804579+00:00, sha d0b2e6e0b694)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.