Rollbar vs Supabase
Continuous code improvement — real-time error tracking + AI triage
vs. The open source Firebase alternative with Postgres
Pricing tiers
Rollbar
Free
$0. 5,000 events/month. 1 user. 30-day retention. Basic alerts.
Free
Essentials
$21/mo (starting). 25K events/mo. Unlimited users. 30-day retention. Slack/Jira integrations.
$21/mo
Advanced
$79/mo (starting). 100K events/mo. Deployment tracking, RQL, AI triage. 180-day retention.
$79/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Starting ~$599/mo. 1M+ events. SSO, audit logs, HIPAA, priority support.
Custom
Supabase
Free
Perfect for experiments. Projects pause after 7 days inactivity.
Free
Pro
Production-ready. Usage-based overages apply.
$25/mo
Team
For teams; includes SOC2 attestation and priority support.
$599/mo
Enterprise
Custom quotas, HIPAA compliance, dedicated support.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Rollbar vs free on Supabase.
| Metric | Rollbar | Supabase |
|---|---|---|
| bandwidth gb | — | 5 GB/month |
| db storage gb | — | 0.5 GB |
| edge invocations | — | 500000 invocations/month |
| file storage gb | — | 1 GB |
| mau | — | 50000 users/month |
| realtime messages | — | 2000000 messages/month |
Features
Rollbar · 15 features
- Alerts — Rule-based alerts to Slack/email/PagerDuty.
- Custom Events — Log arbitrary events via API.
- Deploy Tracking — Annotate errors with deploy SHAs.
- Error Tracking — Capture uncaught exceptions + crashes.
- Intelligent Grouping — Fingerprint-based deduplication.
- Notifiers — 60+ alert channels (Slack, Jira, Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, etc.).
- Person Tracking — Tie errors to end users.
- Real User Monitoring — Browser performance + error correlation.
- Rollbar AI Triage — AI root-cause analysis + suggested fixes.
- RQL Query — SQL-like error querying.
- Session Replay (add-on) — Video-like user session reconstruction.
- Source Maps — Minified JS → original.
- Telemetry Timeline — Breadcrumbs of events before crash.
- Webhooks — Outbound event streaming.
- Workflow Automations — Auto-assign owners, auto-close resolved items.
Supabase · 24 features
- Authentication — Complete JWT-based auth: passwords, magic links, OTP, OAuth, SSO, phone, MFA.
- Backups & PITR — Automatic daily backups + Point-in-Time Recovery (WAL-G). 14-day default PITR wi…
- Compute Instances — Upgradeable DB compute: Micro, Small, Medium, Large. Affects CPU, RAM, and conne…
- Connection Pooling — Supavisor pooler: Session mode (persistent) and Transaction mode (serverless). D…
- Cron Jobs — Scheduled recurring jobs via pg_cron. Trigger DB functions, edge functions, or H…
- Custom Domains — Configure custom hostname for API endpoints with SSL certificate management.
- Database Webhooks — Async HTTP callbacks on INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE via pg_net extension.
- Edge Functions — TypeScript (Deno runtime) functions deployed globally at the edge. Supports secr…
- Full-Text Search — PostgreSQL native FTS: to_tsvector, to_tsquery, GIN indexes, fuzzy matching, wei…
- Image Transformations — On-the-fly resize, crop, quality (20-100), WebP auto-format. Smart CDN caching. …
- Log Drains — Route all stack logs to HTTP, Datadog, Loki, Sentry, S3, OTLP, or Axiom. Up to 2…
- Metrics API — ~200 Prometheus-compatible Postgres metrics. OpenTelemetry export to Datadog, Gr…
- Network Restrictions — CIDR allowlist for database access. Multiple IP ranges supported. Pro+ plan.
- OAuth 2.1 Server — Use Supabase Auth as OAuth provider. Custom Access Token Hooks for claim injecti…
- pgvector — Store and search vector embeddings in Postgres. Supports HNSW/Flat indexes, cosi…
- PostgreSQL Database — Full PostgreSQL per project: SQL editor, table editor, CSV import, 50+ extension…
- PostgreSQL Extensions — 50+ pre-installed extensions: uuid-ossp, pgvector, pg_cron, plv8, pgtap, pg_net,…
- Preview Branches — Ephemeral or persistent DB branches for isolated testing. Git integration, auto-…
- Queues — Exactly-once message queues built on pgmq. Stored in Postgres with configurable …
- Read Replicas — Async read-only replicas in multiple regions. Geo-routing, replication lag monit…
- Realtime — WebSocket subscriptions for DB changes (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE), broadcast, and pr…
- Row Level Security — SQL-native access control; policies auto-filter rows based on auth.uid() / auth.…
- SSL Enforcement — Require TLS for all DB connections. Configurable: required, preferred, disabled.
- Storage — Files, Analytics (Iceberg), and Vector buckets with global CDN (285+ cities) and…
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Rollbar | Supabase |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | Supabase CLI |
| SDK | rollbar-go, rollbar.js (browser), rollbar (Node), rollbar-php, rollbar (Python), rollbar (Ruby) | C# SDK, Flutter SDK, JavaScript SDK, Kotlin SDK, Python SDK, Swift SDK |
| REST | Rollbar REST API | Management API, REST API (PostgREST) |
| GRAPHQL | — | GraphQL (pg_graphql) |
| MCP | — | Supabase MCP Server |
| OTHER | Rollbar Dashboard, Rollbar Webhooks | Realtime (WebSocket) |
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