Supavisor

Spec sheet

What it does

Supavisor is a scalable, cloud-native connection pooler that proxies many PostgreSQL client connections into pooled database connections.Read 21 Oct 2026 · github.com

Purpose

Supavisor is a scalable, cloud-native Postgres connection pooler.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Founded

2020Read 28 Sep 2026 · github.com

Authentication

Client credentials can be verified using tenant user records or an authentication query.Read 4 Oct 2026 · supabase.github.io

Availability

The README describes cluster behavior that can restart tenant pools when clients reconnect after a node goes down.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Benchmark result

The published local benchmark recorded 189.23 transactions per second for Supavisor versus 195.96 for PgBouncer under the shown test.Read 21 Oct 2026 · github.com

Configuration documentation

Environment-variable documentation lists pool settings, clustering, Phoenix API-server settings, logging and JWT-related security variables.Read 21 Oct 2026 · supabase.github.io

Connection scale

The project says a cluster can proxy millions of Postgres client connections into a stateful pool of native Postgres connections.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Connection-limit behavior

Clients exceeding the configured client limit receive a PostgreSQL 'Max client connections reached' error.Read 21 Oct 2026 · supabase.github.io

Container distribution

A public GitHub Container Registry image is available, with linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 images shown for version 2.9.13.Read 21 Oct 2026 · github.com

Deployment limit

The README says Supavisor is not intended to run in a serverless environment and does not depend on Kubernetes.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Deployment strategies

The project documents rolling and blue-green deployment support.Read 21 Oct 2026 · github.com

Deployments

The README says Supavisor supports rolling and blue-green deployment strategies.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Documentation depth

The documentation site covers installation, setup, authentication, tenants, users, pool modes, metrics, logs, PgBouncer migration and Prisma.Read 21 Oct 2026 · supabase.github.io

Encryption

Supabase states that customer data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS.Read 21 Oct 2026 · supabase.com

Funding news

Supabase announced an $80 million Series B in May 2022, bringing reported total funding to $116 million at that time.Read 21 Oct 2026 · prnewswire.com

High availability

Cluster nodes monitor tenant pools and reconnecting clients can start replacement pools after a node failure.Read 21 Oct 2026 · github.com

Hosted pooler role

Supabase provides Supavisor as its shared, multi-tenant pooler and exposes transaction and session connection strings.Read 21 Oct 2026 · supabase.com

Independent technical description

A PostgreSQL conference presentation identifies Supavisor as an Elixir-based, Apache-2.0, cloud-native pooler started at Supabase in 2023.Read 21 Oct 2026 · postgresql.eu

Infrastructure as code

Pulumi and Terraform support are listed for configuring Supavisor clusters and tenant databases.Read 21 Oct 2026 · github.com

Installation

The installation guide starts by setting up a PostgreSQL database for Supavisor tenant data and provides a Docker Compose command for PostgreSQL 14.Read 4 Oct 2026 · supabase.github.io

Licence

The repository is distributed under the Apache-2.0 licence.Read 21 Oct 2026 · github.com

License and security reporting

The repository is Apache-2.0 licensed and directs vulnerability reports to Supabase's HackerOne program.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Limit: pooler trade-offs

The same independent comparison warns that poolers can add latency, complicate authentication and create more troubleshooting paths.Read 21 Oct 2026 · postgresql.eu

Limit: setup complexity

A PostgreSQL conference comparison described Supavisor setup as difficult to understand from the operator's perspective.Read 21 Oct 2026 · postgresql.eu

Maker company size

LinkedIn lists Supabase as a privately held company with 201–500 employees and a 2020 founding year.Read 21 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Maker headquarters

Crunchbase lists Supabase headquarters in San Francisco, California, United States.Read 21 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Maker legal name

Crunchbase lists the legal name as Supabase Inc and names Anthony Wilson and Paul Copplestone as founders.Read 21 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Management API

The project publishes an OpenAPI specification at /api/openapi for administrative integration.Read 21 Oct 2026 · github.com

Multi-tenancy

A Supavisor cluster can connect clients to multiple PostgreSQL instances or clusters as separate tenants.Read 21 Oct 2026 · github.com

Native mode

Native mode proxies a client as though it were directly connected to PostgreSQL and is generally used for migrations.Read 21 Oct 2026 · supabase.github.io

Observability

Supavisor exposes a Prometheus-compatible /metrics endpoint and documents tenant-level throughput visibility.Read 21 Oct 2026 · github.com

Open-source status

The project is described as an open-source scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler.Read 21 Oct 2026 · supabase.github.io

Operational troubleshooting

Supabase documents failures involving unavailable databases, DNS errors, authentication, node RPC timeouts and clients reaching pooler limits.Read 21 Oct 2026 · supabase.com

ORM support

The documentation includes guidance for Prisma and identifies external ORMs such as Prisma, Drizzle and Psycopg as intended clients.Read 21 Oct 2026 · supabase.com

Pool modes

It supports transaction, session, and native pool modes.Read 4 Oct 2026 · supabase.github.io

Praise: scalability

An independent 2026 comparison placed Supavisor among its five recommended PostgreSQL poolers and scored it 8.0 out of 10.Read 21 Oct 2026 · top-5-solutions.com

Prepared-statement limitation

Supavisor transaction mode does not support ordinary prepared statements unless named-prepared-statements support is explicitly enabled; session mode supports them.Read 21 Oct 2026 · supabase.com

Prisma integration

The Prisma guide says Supavisor pool modes behave like PgBouncer and can use the same connection string.Read 4 Oct 2026 · supabase.github.io

Scale claim

The repository reports a load test with 1,003,200 concurrent client connections and more than 20,000 queries per second on a two-node cluster.Read 21 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security compliance

Supabase states that its hosted service is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, HIPAA compliant subject to a BAA, and ISO 27001 certified.Read 21 Oct 2026 · supabase.com

Session pooling

Session mode keeps the assigned database connection for the lifetime of the client connection.Read 21 Oct 2026 · supabase.github.io

Single-tenant use

The project supports single-tenant deployments as a drop-in replacement for PgBouncer.Read 21 Oct 2026 · github.com

Tenant support

Supavisor supports multi-tenant connections to multiple Postgres instances or clusters, as well as single-tenant use as a PgBouncer replacement.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Transaction pooling

Transaction mode gives a client a database connection for one transaction and then returns it to the pool.Read 21 Oct 2026 · supabase.github.io

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