System Parameter Breakdown
- Free Tier Allowance:
- 5 (GB)
- Rate Limit Cap:
- 1000 (Connections)
- Session Lifetime:
- 8 (Hours)
- Overage Fee per 1k MAU:
- 1.50 (USD/GB)
- MFA Support:
- Enforced via PlanetScale organization two-factor authentication
- Enterprise SSO SAML:
- Supported on Enterprise plans with SAML SSO and audit logging
- Custom Domain Support:
- Private connectivity via AWS PrivateLink and custom host routing on paid tiers
- Supported SDKs:
- MySQL wire protocol, Prisma, Drizzle, Rails, Laravel, Node.js mysql2
- Social Providers:
- GitHub OAuth for organization login and deploy request automation
- Compliance Standards:
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR; HIPAA and PCI available on Enterprise
- Webhook Fallback Policy:
- Deploy request webhooks with configurable retry via external automation hooks
Deploy PlanetScale MySQL
👉 5 GB Free Storage • Zero-Downtime Schema Migrations
PlanetScale delivers Vitess-powered MySQL with deploy requests for safe migrations, read replicas, and automatic query caching at the edge. Teams branch databases like code to test schema changes before production merge.
Key takeaway:
Use deploy requests and shadow tables to validate schema migrations without locking production write traffic.