PlanetScale Metal
The fastest way to run databases in AWS or GCP
PlanetScale Metal launched on March 12, 2025 with 127 votes, #357 of 7,215 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
PlanetScale Metal is the fastest way to run databases in AWS or GCP. With blazing fast NVMe drives, you can unlock unlimited IOPS, ultra low latencies, and the highest throughput for your workloads.
PlanetScale Metal gives you the best performance with blazing fast NVMe drives.
PlanetScale Metal is the fastest way to run databases in AWS or GCP. With blazing fast NVMe drives, you can unlock unlimited IOPS, ultra-low latencies, and the highest throughput for your workloads. Getting these results for yourself is as simple as selecting a Metal node in the PlanetScale cluster configuration dropdown . The following graphs show some of the latency percentile changes we saw after switching a few of our workloads from traditional network-attached storage to Metal. PlanetScale Metal has been a game changer for Intercom. All of our biggest, most critical PlanetScale databases now run on Metal. It has allowed us to significantly improve performance, reduce costs, and…from planetscale.com
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