Instead of Supabase

Hosted Postgres with auth, storage and realtime APIs.

Partly

Supabase self-hosts, and the compose file is real. The operational surface is large, and the managed version exists because of that.

You lose: Managed backups, upgrades and the dashboard being someone else's problem.

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Supabase self-hosted

Apache-2.0a projectactive

The same stack, all of it yours. Fifteen containers and a storage bucket to keep.

github.com/supabase/supabase supabase.com

A cluster, mail deliverability, telephony, or a team.

Also worth a look

AppwriteBSD-3-Clausea weekendactive
Batteries included auth, database and storage. Different API to learn.
github.com/appwrite/appwrite appwrite.io
NhostMITa containeractive
Postgres, auth, storage and GraphQL out of the box. A smaller ecosystem than Supabase, and a heavier install than it looks.
github.com/nhost/nhost nhost.io

Facts checked 8 November 2026. Licences, activity and archive status come from each project's own repository; the verdict and the cost lines are the desk's.