Cloudflare D1 vs PlanetScale: Which is better in 2026?

0 developers have voted. See the side-by-side comparison and which tool the community ranks higher.

Cloudflare D1 Community pick

SQLite at the edge on Cloudflare's network.
Rank
#5
Net votes
+0
Free tier
Yes
From
$0.75/million reads (Paid)
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PlanetScale

MySQL-compatible serverless database.
Rank
#3
Net votes
+0
Free tier
Yes
From
$29/mo (Scaler)
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Feature comparison

Feature Cloudflare D1 PlanetScale
Database SQLite (5GB free) MySQL (Vitess) (5GB free)
Reads/day 5 million (free)
Writes/day 100k (free)
Edge Integration Cloudflare Workers (native)
Reads/mo 1 billion (free)
Writes/mo 10 million (free)
Branches 1 production + unlimited dev (free)
Time Travel 30 days (free)
Branching Via Wrangler
Backups Time Travel (built-in) 7 days (Scaler plan)
Open Source No (managed) No (managed)
Schema Changes Zero-downtime (no locking)
Connection Pooling Yes (built-in)

Developer verdict

Cloudflare D1 leads PlanetScale by 0 net votes in the Databases category.

Cloudflare D1 is currently ranked #5 with 0 upvotes. PlanetScale is ranked #3 with 0 upvotes. Both tools are strong choices — see the free tier limits above to decide which fits your project.

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