SEARCH INTEREST
Supabase gets 52% of Google searches between the two.
SupabaseConvex
- Supabase
- -47% 3 mo
- Convex
- -18% 3 mo
Google Trends, 12 months, searches for “Supabase” and “Convex”.
Supabase vs Convex
PickDuel generated this matchup from public website evidence · Updated 22 Sept 2026
Supabase has a narrow edge.
Supabase names names, Convex names its founders
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 a product that says plainly who it is forclearer on positioning (100% against 80%)
Choose Convex 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's homepage backs its pitch with a Chatbase-to-$10M-ARR case study and a wall of named customer quotes across multiple firms. Convex counters with strong founder pedigree and clean pricing, but leans more on its two Dropbox alumni than on customer proof. Both convert well and price clearly, so trust is the tiebreaker.
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Customer proof: breadth versus founder bios
EDGE SUPABASESupabase's homepage runs named case studies from Lovable, eXp Realty and Phoenix Energy, including the Chatbase-to-$10M-ARR line. Convex's About page spends most of its words on Jamie Turner and James Cowling's Dropbox résumés rather than customer outcomes.
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Positioning: production Postgres vs a slogan
EDGE SUPABASESupabase's homepage headline 'Build in a weekend, scale to millions' pairs with a clear feature grid: Auth, Edge Functions, Storage, Realtime, Vector. Convex leads with 'All gas, no breakages,' a punchier line that takes longer to translate into what you're actually building.
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Enterprise compliance signal
EDGE CONVEXConvex's homepage and pricing page both surface SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA badges plus RBAC/SSO under an 'Enterprise Ready' heading. Supabase mentions SOC2 and ISO 27001 mainly on its pricing and features pages, with HIPAA as a paid add-on.
HEAD TO HEAD
| Measure | Supabase | Convex |
|---|---|---|
| PickDuel score | 96/100 | 91/100 |
| Rating | 4.8 | 4.6 |
| Positioning | 25/25 | 20/25 |
| Product clarity | 20/20 | 18/20 |
| Trust | 16/20 | 18/20 |
| Conversion | 20/20 | 20/20 |
| Pricing clarity | 15/15 | 15/15 |
| Web popularity rank | #5,148 | #73,251 |
| Share of Google searches | 52% | 48% |
| Community backers | 0 | 0 |
Supabase
GOOD AT
Backing claims with named customers and dollar figures, and laying out features (pg_graphql, RLS, Edge Functions) in plain language on a dedicated features page.
COSTING THEM
Company-level trust signals like headquarters or leadership details are thin outside the case studies.
Convex
GOOD AT
Founder credibility is concrete: two named Dropbox veterans with specific project history, plus a terminal-command CTA that gets developers moving fast.
COSTING THEM
The About page and homepage lean on team pedigree and slogans more than on named customers with measurable results.
THE OVERTAKE MOVE
Convex should put its named customer quotes (Sean Rich, Karan Singhal) higher on the homepage with company outcomes attached, the way Supabase does with Chatbase's $10M ARR, instead of leaving them as short testimonial snippets.
Fix it, then rescan in a week to see if the result flips.
QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK
Which is better, Supabase or Convex?
Supabase scores 96/100 to Convex's 91/100 on PickDuel. Supabase's homepage backs its pitch with a Chatbase-to-$10M-ARR case study and a wall of named customer quotes across multiple firms. 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 Convex do?
Reactive backend platform with real-time sync, functions, and database for TypeScript and AI apps. (Based on convex.dev.)
How do Supabase and Convex 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. Convex: Clear breakdown with Free tier ($0), Professional ($25/dev/month), Enterprise ($2,500 monthly minimum), and itemized compute/storage overage rates.
Who does the community back, Supabase or Convex?
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
- Convex
- www.convex.dev/
- www.convex.dev/pricing
- www.convex.dev/about-us
- 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.