Lunora vs Supabase
Supabase gives you a real, managed Postgres and a mature ecosystem. Lunora is edge-native, reactive queries and per-tenant Durable Objects on your own Cloudflare account. Here's the honest comparison, including where Supabase still wins.
Lunora vs Supabase at a glance
| Criterion | Lunora | Supabase |
|---|---|---|
| End-to-end TypeScript types | Yes, typed functions | Generated schema types |
| Reactive queries by default | Yes, reactive queries | No, change-feed / broadcast API |
| Data model | SQLite Durable Objects (typed) | Full Postgres (SQL) |
| Open source | Yes (FSL-1.1 → Apache-2.0) | Yes (Apache-2.0) |
| Self-hostable | Yes | Yes, Docker (community) |
| Self-host with no servers to run | Yes, serverless Workers | No, Docker stack (community) |
| Edge / global by default | Yes, Cloudflare edge + DO | Regional Postgres + read replicas |
| ≈$0 at idle, no forced pause | ≈$0, no forced pause | Free tier pauses after ~7 days idle |
| Maturity | Alpha | Production-ready |
How Lunora and Supabase differ
Looking for a Supabase alternative built for the edge? Supabase gives you a real, managed Postgres with a mature ecosystem. Lunora takes a different shape: per-tenant Durable Objects on Cloudflare with reactive queries as the default primitive, running on your own Cloudflare account.
The honest trade is data model versus locality. Supabase is full Postgres, with arbitrary SQL, joins, and extensions, in a single primary region with read replicas. Lunora colocates compute and state at the edge with no database to provision, but a Durable-Object and SQLite model does not match raw Postgres SQL.
Where each one wins
Full Postgres and maturity
Supabase gives you a real, dedicated Postgres, arbitrary SQL, joins, transactions, and the whole extension ecosystem (pgvector, PostGIS). It is mature, broadly adopted, permissively licensed (Apache-2.0), and batteries-included (Auth, Storage, Edge Functions). A Durable-Object/SQLite model cannot match raw SQL breadth.
Edge-native, reactive, nothing to provision
Supabase Realtime is a separate change-feed and broadcast API you wire up; Lunora's reactive queries are the default. Supabase is a single-primary region (plus read replicas) on managed AWS, and its free projects pause after a week idle; Lunora runs per-tenant Durable Objects at the edge, ≈$0 at idle with no pause, on your own Cloudflare account, no Postgres to provision, size, or back up. Types are inferred from your functions, not generated from a schema.
Frequently asked questions
Is Lunora a Supabase alternative?
- For edge-native, reactive real-time apps on your own Cloudflare account, yes. Supabase is the better fit if you want full managed Postgres, SQL, and a mature ecosystem today.
Does Lunora use Postgres?
- No. Lunora stores state in SQLite-backed Durable Objects at the edge. Supabase gives you a full Postgres database with the entire SQL and extension ecosystem.
Is Supabase realtime the same as reactive queries?
- No. Supabase Realtime is a separate change-feed, broadcast, and presence API you wire up. Lunora's reactive queries re-evaluate and stay correct for you by default.
Can you self-host Supabase?
- Yes, via Docker, but it is a multi-service stack (Postgres, Auth, PostgREST, Realtime, Storage, and more) and is community-supported. Lunora self-hosts as serverless Workers on Cloudflare.
Do free Supabase projects pause?
- Yes. Supabase pauses free projects after about a week of inactivity. Lunora idles at roughly $0 on Cloudflare's free tier with no forced pause.
Try Lunora on your own Cloudflare.
Lunora is alpha and open source. Try it on a side project and tell us where it breaks. Prefer managed? Join the Lunora Cloud waitlist.