Editorial take
Why it stands out
Image transforms bill per origin image when enabled—test with production-like libraries.
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Tool profile
File storage for Supabase projects with buckets, uploads, access controls, and signed URLs.
User-generated content in apps already on Supabase
Object storage inside Supabase: S3-compatible buckets, signed URLs, image transforms, and Row Level Security aligned with your Postgres auth.
supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/billing-on-supabase (March 2026) shows Storage Size quotas of 1 GB on Free and 100 GB included on Pro/Team, with overage pricing documented under Manage your usage. Egress, Edge Function invocations, Realtime, and image transformations each carry their own included amounts—storage-heavy apps usually trip egress before raw GB stored.
Pair a CDN when serving user-generated media at scale; compare Cloudflare R2 or Bunny.net if bytes out dominate the bill.
Quick fit
Editorial take
Image transforms bill per origin image when enabled—test with production-like libraries.
What it does well
Primary use cases
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Pressure-test this pick against nearby alternatives.
Airbyte
Free planWarehouse ingestion and ELT pipelines
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Compare Airbyte with Fivetran when you want more deployment control and an open-source path.
Pricing snapshot
Supabase Storage is included inside Supabase plans rather than sold as a separate standalone subscription. Free includes 1 GB of storage, while Pro and Team include 100 GB before storage overages of about $0.021 per GB-month. Image transformations on paid plans include 100 per month, then cost $5 per 1,000; Enterprise is custom.
Alation
PaidEnterprise data catalog
Enterprise data intelligence and catalog platform for search, governance, trust, and AI-ready knowledge layers over organizational data.
Choose Alation when the buying problem is enterprise trust, governance, and discoverability across data assets.
