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Anthropic API vs PlanetScale

API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning
vs. Serverless MySQL (Vitess) and Postgres at scale

Anthropic website ↗PlanetScale website ↗

Pricing tiers

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

PlanetScale

Postgres EBS single-node — PS-5
Single-node EBS, 512 MiB RAM, arm64. Entry point for Postgres.
$5/mo
Postgres EBS HA — PS-5
3-node (primary + 2 replicas), 512 MiB, arm64.
$15/mo
Vitess (non-Metal) — PS-10
Vitess MySQL sharded cluster, 1 GiB RAM.
$39/mo
Postgres Metal — M-10
3-node Metal, 1 GiB RAM + 10 GiB local storage. Much higher IOPS.
$50/mo
Vitess Metal — M-160
Vitess Metal, 16 GiB RAM + 110 GiB storage.
$609/mo
Enterprise
Custom agreements, dedicated regions, 99.99% SLA.
Custom
PlanetScale website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing opus-4-7 on Anthropic API vs pg-ebs-nonha-starter on PlanetScale.

MetricAnthropic APIPlanetScale
discount batch50 % off—
ha—0 nodes
ram mib—512 MiB

Features

Anthropic API · 0 features

    PlanetScale · 12 features

    • Backups — Automated daily backups with retention.
    • Database Branching — Git-like branches of your DB schema (not data). Create, diff, merge via deploy r…
    • Deploy Requests — Schema changes in a feature branch get reviewed + auto-applied to main with zero…
    • HIPAA — HIPAA-compliant deployments (Enterprise).
    • Metal (NVMe) — Dedicated NVMe local storage. 10x IOPS vs EBS, latency-critical workloads.
    • PgBouncer Pooler — Managed PgBouncer for Postgres clusters. Optional dedicated pooler.
    • PlanetScale Boost — Query result cache with sub-ms reads.
    • Point-in-Time Recovery — Restore cluster to any point within retention window.
    • Postgres on PlanetScale — PostgreSQL 15+ with the same branching + deploy-request flow. Launched 2024.
    • Query Insights — Per-query performance analytics, slow query tracking, explain plans.
    • Read-only Regions — Route reads to the nearest region for lower latency.
    • Vitess (MySQL at scale) — Horizontally-sharded MySQL (YouTube-scale) — original PlanetScale offering.

    Developer interfaces

    KindAnthropic APIPlanetScale
    CLIClaude Code CLIPlanetScale CLI (pscale)
    SDKGo SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)@planetscale/database
    RESTAWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)Management API
    MCP—PlanetScale MCP
    OTHER—MySQL Wire Protocol, Postgres Wire Protocol
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