Infrastructure & DevOps
PlanetScale, Inc.
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
PlanetScale is a cloud database platform offering MySQL-compatible and Postgres databases.
Is PlanetScale, Inc. production-ready?
Legit.Show scores PlanetScale, Inc. 87 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on PlanetScale, Inc. (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 99/100
- Accessibility — 93/100
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 70/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 100/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP.
- No HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 123 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
Enterprises with massive-scale databases · High-traffic production workloads · Companies needing horizontal sharding · Teams requiring compliance and security options
Pricing
Base: Postgres from $5/month (single node) or $50/month (Metal); Vitess pricing based on cluster size and storage; Enterprise plan available with custom pricing