Forte vs. Supabase
Run your application alongside authentication and payments.
Supabase provides Postgres and authentication. Forte also runs your application and includes payments and request debugging.
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Feature by feature
A straightforward look at how Forte compares to Supabase.
| Supabase | Forte | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment pipeline | Edge functions deploy by CLI or a GitHub Action you write | ✓ Straight from GitHub on push to a branch, or on a published release |
| Run your app code | Edge functions (Deno) | ✓ Any container, autoscaled |
| Charge your users | ✗ Integrate Stripe yourself | ✓ Built in, powered by Stripe |
| Sign in your users | Built in | Built in (email, SMS, Google) |
| Debugging | Logs and dashboards | ✓ Trace any request by ID |
| Network egress | 250 GB included, then $0.09/GB | ✓ No egress fees for APIs, web traffic, or content. |
| Seat & platform fees | $25/mo per organization + per-project compute fees (Pro) | ✓ No seat or per-project fees. Pay only for usage. |
| One platform | Backend building blocks | ✓ Hosting, sign-in, and payments together |
Total cost of ownership
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A small team with paying customers
1,200,000 req/mo · 10 GB database · 4,000 users
Supabase is a database-centric backend service built around Supabase-specific database, authentication, storage, and realtime APIs. It does not run the general-purpose backend application itself. Forte includes the complete containerized application backend and managed database, without requiring application logic to be reshaped around a vendor-specific backend-as-a-service architecture.
Includes Supabase and $52 in priced services.
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Monthly cost
USD / monthDebugging & operating
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Estimated hours per month spent debugging and operating the platform — keeping it running, not building features. Not included in dollar totals.
Priced services are included in the headline total. Items without a public price still need a quote.
How each total is calculated
Credits and included usage are applied before the total. Published list rates; taxes are excluded.
- Supabase has no per-seat fee on Pro. The $25 fee applies to the organization.
- Compute is a dedicated instance billed by the hour, running whether or not queries arrive.
This workload falls outside our standard pricing model.
Send your bill for a custom quote.Rates as of July 2026, from Forte's and Supabase's published prices. Build charges are excluded on both sides. Actual usage changes your bill. Treat this as an estimate, not a quote.
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One product usually needs several services
Supabase covers part of the product. Other services provide the rest. Each one adds an account, a bill, and another system to maintain.
Multiple services
With Supabase
Database, auth & storageSupabase
Application hostingRailway Pro
Subscriptions & paymentsBuild it yourself on Stripe
Integration code, credentials, dashboards, and failure handling stay with your team.
Forte puts these parts in one platform
With Forte
- Database, auth & storageIncluded
- Application hostingIncluded
- Subscriptions & paymentsBuilt in, Stripe-backed
One operational view for deployments, users, payments, databases, and request-level debugging.
Migrate from Supabase in 15 minutes
No special tooling. No migration scripts. Just point Forte at your existing repository.
Connect your GitHub repo
Forte connects to GitHub and builds your app as a container.
Move your environment variables
You can keep Supabase for data. Copy the same connection details and keys into Forte.
Deploy your app
git push to your branch, or publish a GitHub release. Forte builds and deploys automatically, with autoscaling.
Turn on payments
Turn on Stripe-backed payments in Forte. There is no separate integration to maintain.
Point your domain
Update your DNS to Forte's endpoint. TLS is automatic.