No. 14 of 30 ·Database Proxy Software

Supavisor

Self-hosted · API

Freedom report

Two barsScore 6.2

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely0 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Supavisor is ranked #14 of 30 in database proxy software on Freedom251. It runs on API, Self-hosted. There is a free plan.

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Open-source Supavisor Free Apache-2.0 licensed; self-hosted deployment github.com · 4 Oct 2026

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Deployment model: both
Connection pooling: Yes
Query routing: Yes
Load balancing: Yes
Automatic failover: No
Supported databases: PostgreSQL

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The record

Purpose: Supavisor is a scalable, cloud-native Postgres connection pooler.
Connection scale: The project says a cluster can proxy millions of Postgres client connections into a stateful pool of native Postgres connections.
Tenant support: Supavisor supports multi-tenant connections to multiple Postgres instances or clusters, as well as single-tenant use as a PgBouncer replacement.
Pool modes: It supports transaction, session, and native pool modes.
Authentication: Client credentials can be verified using tenant user records or an authentication query.
Observability: The README describes tenant-level throughput visibility and a Prometheus metrics endpoint.
Management API: The README lists an OpenAPI specification at `/api/openapi` and Swagger UI at `/swaggerui`.
Availability: The README describes cluster behavior that can restart tenant pools when clients reconnect after a node goes down.
Deployments: The README says Supavisor supports rolling and blue-green deployment strategies.
Deployment limit: The README says Supavisor is not intended to run in a serverless environment and does not depend on Kubernetes.
Installation: The installation guide starts by setting up a PostgreSQL database for Supavisor tenant data and provides a Docker Compose command for PostgreSQL 14.
Prisma integration: The Prisma guide says Supavisor pool modes behave like PgBouncer and can use the same connection string.
License and security reporting: The repository is Apache-2.0 licensed and directs vulnerability reports to Supabase's HackerOne program.
Founded: 2020
Price from: Free

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Sources

github.com/supabase/supavisor· checked 4 Oct 2026
supabase.github.io/supavisor/configuration/pool_modes/· checked 4 Oct 2026
supabase.github.io/supavisor/connecting/authentication/· checked 4 Oct 2026
supabase.github.io/supavisor/development/installation/· checked 4 Oct 2026
supabase.github.io/supavisor/orms/prisma/· checked 4 Oct 2026
github.com/supabase/supavisor/security· checked 4 Oct 2026