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Nhost vs PlanetScale: which is more reliable? (2026)
Nhost is more reliable than PlanetScale, scoring 100.0 vs 89.1 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Nhost reported 0 incidents and PlanetScale reported 6, with effective uptime of 100% and 99.92% respectively.
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Nhost | PlanetScale |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 100.0 | 89.1 |
| Rank (managed database services) | — | #3 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 100% | 99.92% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 0 | 6 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 4 |
| Avg time to resolve | — | 54m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Nhost and PlanetScale differ
- Nhost reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while PlanetScale reported 6.
- PlanetScale had 4 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Nhost.
- Nhost's longest incident on record lasted 2h 8m (Mar 10, 2026); PlanetScale's lasted 3h (Jul 24, 2026).
90-day uptime
Nhost
PlanetScale
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Nhost incidents
No incidents reported by Nhost in the last 90 days.
Recent PlanetScale incidents
- Partial outageOct 26, 2026 · resolved in 1h 38m
Problems with Vitess connectivity and credential changes
Affected: eu-west-2 (London), ap-southeast-1 (Singapore), eu-central-1 (Frankfurt), europe-west1 (St. Ghislain), ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo), sa-east-1 (Sao Paulo) +13 more
- InformationalOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 1h 8m
- Partial outageOct 9, 2026 · resolved in 26m
AWS us-east-1 connectivity failures
Affected: us-east-1 (Northern Virginia), us-east-1 (Northern Virginia)
- Degraded performanceSep 28, 2026 · resolved in 2h 3m
Branch creation delays in GCP europe-west-1
Affected: Database Operations
- Partial outageSep 5, 2026 · resolved in 14m
Connectivity issues with Vitess databases in GCP
Affected: us-east4 (Northern Virginia), us-east1 (Moncks Corner), europe-west1 (St. Ghislain), europe-west4 (Eemshaven), us-central1 (Iowa), northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal) +1 more
- Partial outageSep 2, 2026 · resolved in 10m
Dashboard and API 500 errors for postgres databases
Affected: Dashboard and API Requests
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- Neon · #4 · 100% uptime
- Convex · #5 · 99.87% uptime
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