AWS Amplify vs Supabase: Features, Pricing and User Reviews 2026

AWS Amplify uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model with a generous free tier for 12 months. Here's how pricing works:

Build and Deploy: You get 1,000 free build minutes monthly (Standard instance). Additional minutes cost $0.01 per minute. Larger instances for complex builds start at $0.025 per minute.

Hosting: Free tier includes 5 GB storage and 15 GB data transfer monthly. Beyond that, storage costs $0.023 per GB monthly, and data transfer is $0.15 per GB served.

Server-Side Rendering: For Next.js and Nuxt apps, you get 500,000 free requests and 100 GB-hours monthly. Additional requests cost $0.30 per million, and compute time is $0.20 per GB-hour.

Backend Services: Individual AWS services like databases (DynamoDB), authentication (Cognito), and storage (S3) have their own pricing and free tiers. Many offer permanent free tiers for small workloads.

Most small to medium projects stay within free tier limits. Larger apps typically cost $10-100 monthly depending on traffic and usage.

Supabase offers flexible pricing to suit different project sizes and needs.

The Free plan is perfect for hobby projects and learning. It includes unlimited API requests, 500 MB database storage, 5 GB bandwidth, and 1 GB file storage. Free projects pause after one week of inactivity, and you can have up to 2 active projects.

The Pro plan costs $25 per month and includes 8 GB database space, 250 GB bandwidth, 100 GB file storage, and 100,000 monthly active users. Additional usage is charged as you go. This plan adds email support, daily backups for 7 days, and access to premium features.

The Team plan at $599 monthly adds compliance features like SOC2, single sign-on for your dashboard, priority support with service level agreements, and 14-day backup retention.

For large companies, the Enterprise plan offers custom pricing with dedicated support, uptime guarantees, private Slack channels, and the option to bring your own cloud infrastructure.