Self-host Supabase

Backend & BaaS

deployed & timed by usprices checked · Jul 2026

Postgres-native backend platform bundling auth, realtime subscriptions, storage, and edge functions behind a single API gateway. The open-source Firebase alternative.

Firebase / yr$300

Self-hosted / yr~$55

You keep$245/yr

Key facts

CategoryBackend & BaaS

LicenseApache-2.0

StackPostgreSQL, TypeScript

Min RAM4096 MB

Dockeryes

Difficulty

Our recommendation

Pick Supabase when you want a Postgres-native backend — auth, realtime, storage, and edge functions on top of a real relational database you can query and back up like any other Postgres install. Budget a genuine box: the official Compose stack is a dozen-plus containers and wants 4 GB of RAM. If you only need auth and a data API on SQLite, PocketBase is dramatically less to run.

What you need

Any VPS with at least 4096 MB of RAM
A domain you control — most self-hosted setups need HTTPS in front of them
About the better part of a day

Install with Docker Compose

Save this as compose.yml and run docker compose up -d:

# Supabase — official self-hosting via Docker Compose
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/supabase/supabase
cp -rf supabase/docker/* supabase-project && cp supabase/docker/.env.example supabase-project/.env
cd supabase-project
# generate real secrets for POSTGRES_PASSWORD, JWT_SECRET, etc. in .env before starting
docker compose pull
docker compose up -d  #  →  http://SERVER_IP:8000 (Studio via Kong)

vps picksBest VPS for self-hostingbenchmarked quarterly · re-priced monthly

What you take on

Supabase self-hosted is the same open-source engine as the cloud product, but you inherit what the paid platform quietly handles for you:

non-negotiableYou are the backup story. Self-hosted Supabase has no built-in automated backups or point-in-time recovery — that's a paid-cloud feature; plan your own pg_dump or WAL-archiving schedule from day one.

non-negotiableStudio isn't full parity. The bundled admin UI trails the hosted dashboard on some features — expect to drop into psql or the API for anything Studio doesn't cover.

non-negotiableIt's a real container stack. Kong, GoTrue, PostgREST, Realtime, Storage, and Postgres all run separately — docker compose up is one command, but keeping a dozen-plus services patched and healthy is the ongoing job.