SEARCH INTEREST
Supabase gets 97% of Google searches between the two.
SupabaseAppwrite
- Supabase
- -47% 3 mo
- Appwrite
- steady
Google Trends, 12 months, searches for “Supabase” and “Appwrite”.
Supabase vs Appwrite
PickDuel generated this matchup from public website evidence · Updated 22 Sept 2026
Supabase leads this battle by 11 points.
Supabase quotes real executives on page one; Appwrite saves it for later
COMMUNITY PICK
Community verdict is still open. The first back decides the Community Pick.
One tap, no signup. Your back moves that company up the community board; more backers make it the Community Pick. The score doesn't change.
WHICH SHOULD YOU CHOOSE?
Both are defensible: it depends on which of these you actually care about.
Choose Supabase if…
- you care most about ease of use13 of 70 reviewers praise it
- you want to get started without a sales callclearer on conversion (100% against 80%)
Choose Appwrite if…
- you can't afford problems with customer support16 reviewers raise it about Supabase
Worked out from prices read on each company's own site and what reviewers repeatedly say, both linked below. We don't pick a winner: the right answer depends on which of these you care about.
AT A GLANCE
WHY SUPABASE LEADS
Supabase leads because its homepage does the trust-building work immediately: named executives, a $10M ARR figure, and click-ready starter templates. Appwrite has comparable substance, wide feature set, real customer wins, but keeps its best proof on a separate blog page and splits pricing across two tables instead of one.
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Named proof sits on the homepage
EDGE SUPABASESupabase's homepage quotes Seth Siegler, Chief Innovation Officer at eXp Realty, and cites Chatbase reaching $10M ARR, right where a first-time visitor lands. Appwrite's strongest numbers, Radar saving $1M and Lorari scaling to 130 studios, live on a separate customer-stories page.
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One pricing table versus two
EDGE SUPABASESupabase runs Free, $25 Pro, and $599 Team in a single sequence, down to $0.09 per GB of egress. Appwrite splits the same math into a database pricing block ($0 fixed fee, then $10/mo per database) and a separate dedicated-compute list, so getting a real monthly number takes more clicking.
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Homepage real estate: templates vs benchmarks
EDGE SUPABASEAppwrite's homepage runs an 'AI Arena' table of model benchmark percentages next to dollar figures, with no clear payoff for a developer scanning the page. Supabase uses the same spot for starter templates, Next.js, Flutter, LangChain, that a visitor can open and start building from immediately.
HEAD TO HEAD
| Measure | Supabase | Appwrite |
|---|---|---|
| PickDuel score | 96/100 | 85/100 |
| Rating | 4.8 | 4.3 |
| Positioning | 25/25 | 22/25 |
| Product clarity | 20/20 | 20/20 |
| Trust | 16/20 | 14/20 |
| Conversion | 20/20 | 16/20 |
| Pricing clarity | 15/15 | 13/15 |
| Web popularity rank | #5,148 | #62,301 |
| Share of Google searches | 97% | 3% |
| Community backers | 0 | 0 |
Supabase
GOOD AT
Turns trust into homepage copy: named executives, a specific ARR figure, and starter templates a visitor can click into within seconds.
COSTING THEM
Even with the quotes on display, Supabase never says who runs the company or where it's based, which is why trust caps at 16/20.
Appwrite
GOOD AT
Covers a wide service list (Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Sites, Messaging) and its customer-stories page carries hard numbers like $1M saved and 13,000 students served.
COSTING THEM
Those numbers stay off the homepage, and the pricing page's split between database costs and compute tiers makes the total bill harder to see at a glance.
THE OVERTAKE MOVE
Appwrite should pull a couple of its customer-story numbers, like Radar's $1M saved, onto the homepage above the fold, and merge the pricing page's database and compute tables into one grid the way Supabase does.
Fix it, then rescan in a week to see if the result flips.
QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK
Which is better, Supabase or Appwrite?
Supabase scores 96/100 to Appwrite's 85/100 on PickDuel. Supabase leads because its homepage does the trust-building work immediately: named executives, a $10M ARR figure, and click-ready starter templates. The score rates how clearly each public website explains the product, earns trust, shows pricing and asks for the next step. It is not a judgement of product quality.
What does Supabase do?
Open-source Postgres development platform providing authentication, instant APIs, realtime subscriptions, and storage. (Based on supabase.com.)
What does Appwrite do?
Open-source backend platform providing auth, databases, storage, and functions for developers and AI agents. (Based on appwrite.io.)
How do Supabase and Appwrite compare on pricing?
Supabase: Pricing is fully transparent with defined tiers (Free, $25/mo Pro, $599/mo Team) and exhaustive unit costs for compute, egress, and storage. Appwrite: A dedicated pricing page outlines dedicated compute tiers from $10/mo to $960/mo along with serverless database quotas and included monthly credits.
Who does the community back, Supabase or Appwrite?
Nobody has backed either side yet. Anyone can back one side, once, with no signup. Backing never changes the PickDuel score.
How is the PickDuel score calculated?
PickDuel reads up to three public pages per website and runs one web search. A language model rates 11 specific signals from 0 to 5, and fixed code turns them into a 0-100 score: positioning 25, product clarity 20, trust 20, conversion 20, pricing clarity 15.
SOURCES
- Supabase
- supabase.com/
- supabase.com/pricing
- supabase.com/features
- Analysed 22 Sept 2026
- Appwrite
- appwrite.io/home
- appwrite.io/pricing
- appwrite.io/blog/categories/customer-stories
- Analysed 22 Sept 2026
PickDuel scores public website communication, not product quality. Backers never change the score. How scoring works
THE SHORTLIST
Almost nobody decides between two. These are the businesses the public puts next to Supabase, with the reason each one comes up — checked against their own sites and their public reviews, not our opinion.
- Railway79
Full-stack cloud platform for deploying applications, databases, and services with automatic scaling.
- Praised for ease of use · 25 of 80 public reviews
- Same market · Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Praised for ease of use · 9 of 57 public reviews
- Same market · Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Convex91
Reactive backend platform with real-time sync, functions, and database for TypeScript and AI apps.
- Already compared head to head
- Same market · Backend as a Service
- Fly.io90
Hardware-isolated virtual machines and persistent execution environments for applications and AI agents.
- Praised for ease of use · 7 of 22 public reviews
- Vercel86
Cloud platform for building, deploying, and scaling web applications and autonomous AI agents.
- Praised for developer experience · 8 of 78 public reviews
- Appwrite85
Open-source backend platform providing auth, databases, storage, and functions for developers and AI agents.
- Already compared head to head
- Same market · Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS)
- Neon83
Serverless Postgres backend platform featuring branching, autoscaling, storage, functions, and AI gateway.
- Already compared head to head
- Same market · Serverless Database & Backend Platform
- Praised for ease of use · 15 of 72 public reviews
- Already compared head to head
The same rules run in both directions: Supabase is on 9 other shortlists for the same reasons. Nothing here rates anyone's product, and no business can pay to be added or removed. Something wrong? Tell us
YOUR TURN
Who beats your business?
Your score, your closest rival and the one fix that would flip it. About a minute.