EasySiteControl vs Supabase

Supabase is a Postgres backend platform for developers. We are a MongoDB content platform with a dashboard your editors can use — your database, your bucket, your SMTP.

What Supabase is

Supabase is the leading open-source backend-as-a-service: a full managed PostgreSQL database with instant APIs, authentication with a long list of OAuth providers, file storage, edge functions, and realtime subscriptions. It is developer-first — you work in SQL, row-level security policies and TypeScript — the free tier is genuinely generous, and the ecosystem is enormous. It is Apache-2 licensed and can be self-hosted, though nearly everyone uses the hosted cloud.

The difference that actually matters

The first difference is that these products are often not solving the same problem: Supabase is a backend platform you build on with code, and there is no content editing experience for non-developers — the table editor is a developer tool, not an editorial workflow. EasySiteControl is a content platform: schemas with validation, records with history, media, forms and a dashboard an editor can be handed. The second difference is where things live. On Supabase's cloud, your Postgres runs on their infrastructure — it is your data, exportable at any time, but the database itself is a Supabase-managed instance on their account. With us, the database is a MongoDB on your account — Atlas, self-hosted, anywhere — alongside your own bucket and your own SMTP. Leaving is just pointing your apps at your own DB, because nothing needs to be migrated off our infrastructure in the first place.

Side by side

 SupabaseEasySiteControl
What it isBackend platform — database, auth, functions, for developersContent platform — schemas, records, media, forms, for teams
Where records liveManaged Postgres on Supabase's infrastructure (or self-host the stack)Your own MongoDB — Atlas, self-hosted, anywhere
DatabasePostgreSQLMongoDB
Editor experienceTable editor — a developer toolA content dashboard non-developers can use
End-user authExcellent — email, magic links, many OAuth providersAuth schemas — registration, login, verification, reset
Custom API logicEdge functions — TypeScript, deployedVisual step canvas — assembled and test-run in the dashboard
RealtimeBuilt inNone
Cost shapeFree tier; Pro from ~$25/mo plus usageFlat per project; you supply the infra

Pricing and capabilities for Supabase last checked on 27 August 2026. Products change — check the sources below before making a decision on this.

Choose Supabase if

  • You are building an application backend in code — Supabase is a better tool for that than a CMS, ours included
  • Your data model is relational and SQL is the right home for it
  • You need serious end-user auth today — magic links, OAuth providers, MFA — theirs is far ahead of our auth schemas
  • You want realtime, edge functions and a huge ecosystem of examples and integrations
  • You are prototyping on the free tier and cost matters more than anything else right now

Choose EasySiteControl if

  • Non-developers need to create and edit content — Supabase has no editorial dashboard to hand them
  • Your data is in MongoDB, or contractually must live on your own account rather than a vendor-managed instance
  • You want content APIs and custom endpoints without writing and deploying TypeScript functions
  • You are an agency and each client's project should live in that client's own database, not as tables in your vendor account

Common questions

Is Supabase a CMS?

No — and that is the heart of this comparison. Supabase is a backend platform: a managed Postgres with auth, storage and functions, built for developers writing code. It has no editorial interface for non-developers. EasySiteControl is a content platform with a dashboard your editors use. Plenty of teams could reasonably use both, for different layers of the same product.

Doesn't Supabase also give me my own database?

Your data in Supabase is yours and exportable at any time — that is real, and better than most of the industry. But on the hosted cloud, the Postgres instance itself runs on Supabase's infrastructure under their account. With EasySiteControl the database is a MongoDB on your account, provisioned by you, that we connect to with credentials you can revoke. If the vendor disappears, your database does not.

Can I use Supabase with MongoDB?

No. Supabase is Postgres, deeply and deliberately — its APIs, row-level security and tooling are built on it. If your stack is MongoDB, Supabase means migrating to SQL. EasySiteControl connects to the MongoDB you already have.

Which costs more as I grow?

Supabase's Pro plan starts around $25/month plus usage — egress, storage, active users — so costs track growth. EasySiteControl is a flat price per project, and you supply the database and bucket, so the growing bill is with your own providers at their rates. Which is cheaper depends entirely on your shape: a small prototype is cheaper on Supabase's free tier; a content-heavy site with real traffic tends to favour flat pricing.

Judge it on the details

The claims on our side of the table are documented, not asserted: start with the getting-started guide, see how schemas and the records API work, or how custom endpoints are built. The cost side is one page: pricing.

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