Bauplan vs PlanetScale
Bauplan
bauplanlabs.com
PlanetScale
planetscale.comSide by side
| Figure | Bauplan | PlanetScale |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $700/mo | $5/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 4 |
| Spec score · Data Version Control Tools | 8.4 (#10) | 7.6 (#24) |
| Company | Bauplan says it is a small engineering team based in New York and San Francisco. | PlanetScale was founded in 2018 by the co-creators and maintainers of the Vitess open-source project. |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, Temporal, DBOS, Jupyter, Marimo, Streamlit, Snowflake, BigQuery, Metabase, Superset, Fivetran, and Airbyte. | The site lists Fivetran, Airbyte, Hightouch, Datadog, Vantage, and Debezium integrations for Vitess, and Prometheus, Datadog, and pganalyze monitoring integrations for Postgres. |
| Product | Bauplan is a data lakehouse that runs Python and SQL pipelines directly on Apache Iceberg tables in a user's object storage, with no servers or clusters to manage. | PlanetScale is a relational database platform offering managed Vitess, Neki, and PostgreSQL clusters. |
| Security | Bauplan states that it is SOC 2 Type II compliant and offers single-tenant deployment, PrivateLink, and bring-your-own-cloud options. | PlanetScale documents encryption at rest and in transit, TLS 1.3 for API and dashboard communications, and optional private connectivity through AWS PrivateLink or GCP Private Service Connect. |
| Support | The Sandbox includes community support on Slack, Dedicated has private Slack support, and Enterprise includes dedicated customer support and a forward deployed engineer. | Enterprise plans include business-level support, and customers can optionally purchase Enterprise support with direct Slack access to support engineers. |
Plans
PlanetScale
- Base — PlanetScale Postgres single node$5 a month
- Base — PlanetScale Postgres Metal$50 a month
- Base — Vitess, Neki, and other configurationsPrice not published
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Bauplan
Bauplan is a data lakehouse for running Python and SQL pipelines directly on Apache Iceberg tables in a user's object storage, without managing servers or clusters. It uses serverless execution for Python pipelines and supports Python, SQL, and mixed workloads on the same tables. Data branches, isolated runs, atomic publishes, and rollback are intended to safeguard changes to production data. Bauplan also describes workflows where AI agents build pipelines, explore data, and manage a lakehouse through its MCP Server and Skills. Integrations listed include Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, Temporal, DBOS, Jupyter, Marimo, Streamlit, Snowflake, BigQuery, Metabase, Superset, Fivetran, and Airbyte. Bauplan says customer data stays in the customer's S3 bucket and offers PrivateLink or bring-your-own-cloud options. Its free Sandbox uses a shared environment where all data is public, which the company recommends for toy projects and demos rather than company data. Dedicated costs $700 a month after the first 14 days free and includes a dedicated private instance, data in the customer's S3, 10GB memory, and unlimited queries, users, and agents. Enterprise pricing is custom. Bauplan states that it is SOC 2 Type II compliant.
PlanetScale
PlanetScale has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.