Netlify vs Supabase

• Netlify includes a significantly higher egress ceiling of 2000 GB compared to the 250 GB limit found on Supabase, though Netlify penalizes users with a steep $0.55/GB overage rate versus Supabase’s far more reasonable $0.09/GB charge.
• Edge function execution quotas favor Netlify, which provides up to 50 M requests on higher tiers, whereas Supabase caps out at 2 M requests.
• Storage overages are cheaper on Netlify at $0.05/GB, while Supabase charges $0.13/GB for exceeding allocated limits.
• Monthly subscription costs for Netlify top out at $99.00/mo, which is a fraction of the $7460.00/mo upper bound seen on Supabase's enterprise-grade infrastructure.

Netlify operates as a content delivery and frontend-heavy platform, leveraging a global edge network that mimics the reach of Cloudflare or Vercel. Because their pricing model is tuned for static assets and edge functions, they allow much higher traffic volumes before hitting the paywall. This makes them a logical choice for high-traffic documentation sites or marketing frontends that do not require complex relational data handling. The high cost per gigabyte for egress suggests that Netlify prefers to keep traffic within their pre-defined tiers rather than acting as a general-purpose object storage provider.

Supabase handles edge functions as a secondary convenience for database-adjacent logic, such as row-level security checks or authentication triggers. Their infrastructure relies on standard cloud compute patterns that are more expensive to scale for pure static delivery. While Supabase offers deep integration for Postgres-heavy applications, those expecting to serve large binary assets or high-bandwidth media will find the egress limits restrictive. Netlify excels at serving requests at the edge for a lower entry price, while Supabase effectively functions as a database-first platform where edge execution is a specialized tool rather than a primary throughput mechanism.