Supabase Alternative in India: Postgres Billed in INR

If you are looking for a Supabase alternative in India, start with one question: which parts of Supabase does your app actually use? This guide is for developers and small teams who started on Supabase and now want a bill in rupees with a GST invoice, a database only their server can reach, or fewer free tier limits. It explains what Supabase gives you, what it costs, and when a plain managed PostgreSQL database is enough.

Why developers in India look for a Supabase alternative

We went through developer forums, news reports, Supabase’s own docs and its status page. The same reasons come up again and again, and most teams have more than one.

The February 2026 access block

On 24 February 2026, according to news reports, a blocking order under Section 69A of the IT Act reached Indian internet providers. Users on Jio, Airtel and ACT Fibernet could no longer reach *.supabase.co, the address every Supabase app calls for its data and logins. Supabase’s status page logged it as an India-only DNS problem, and access came back on 5 March 2026.

For about ten days, apps that called Supabase from the browser showed empty screens and failed logins to anyone on those networks. Developers could not fix it from their side, because you cannot ask thousands of users to change their DNS. The workarounds were a VPN, a proxy, or a paid plan with a custom domain. Many teams came out of those ten days wanting fewer outside services between their users and their data.

Free projects that go to sleep

A free Supabase project is paused after one week with too little database activity. That is fine for experiments. It hurts a college project, a portfolio demo or an early product with few visitors, because the first visitor after a quiet week finds the app broken. A free organisation that goes over its usage quota can also be restricted until the next billing cycle.

The bill is more than the $25 headline

The Pro plan starts at $25 a month per organisation, and that covers one small compute instance. Every extra project, such as a separate staging copy, adds its own compute. Bandwidth past the included amount, a dedicated IPv4 address and a custom domain are paid add-ons. None of this is hidden, but the monthly total is often well above the first number people see.

Paying in dollars from India

Supabase prices and invoices in US dollars. An Indian card adds foreign transaction charges, the rupee amount changes every month, and some Indian cards decline international recurring payments under RBI’s e-mandate rules. A GST-registered business can still claim credit, but it has to pay the GST itself under reverse charge. With an Indian supplier, the GST is already on the invoice.

A database the browser can reach

In the usual Supabase setup, the browser talks to the database through Supabase’s API, and row level security policies decide what each user can see. When those policies are right, this works well. When row level security is turned off on a table the API exposes, anyone with the public key in the page can read it, and often change it. Teams that write their own backend often prefer a database that only their server can reach.

They only use the database

Many apps never use Supabase auth, storage or realtime. They connect through an ORM and use Supabase as a hosted PostgreSQL. For them, the rest of the platform is extra cost and complexity.

What Supabase gives you beyond the database

Supabase is a backend-as-a-service built on PostgreSQL. Next to the database it adds:

• Auth: sign-up, login and social providers
• Storage: file uploads with access rules
• Realtime: table changes pushed to the browser
• Auto-generated APIs: REST and GraphQL over your tables
• Edge functions: small server functions

If your app uses several of these, Supabase is doing real work for you. Moving off it means replacing each piece you use, so be honest about that list before you compare prices.

What Supabase costs, in short

These figures are from the official Supabase pricing page, checked on 7 October 2026.

For a team in India, two rows matter most. A paused free project means a demo goes offline when nobody opens it for a week. And a dollar bill on an Indian card changes in rupees every month and can carry foreign transaction charges. The full breakdown is in Supabase pricing in India.

When plain managed PostgreSQL is enough

Many apps use Supabase only as a PostgreSQL database. They connect through an ORM such as Prisma, Drizzle, SQLAlchemy or the Django ORM, and handle login and file uploads in their own backend code.

For those apps the only thing that matters is a reliable DATABASE_URL. A managed PostgreSQL service is then a direct swap: the same engine, the same schema, the same queries. Nothing in your code needs to know the database moved.

Signs you are in this group:

1. Your backend, not the browser, talks to the database.
2. You do not call supabase.auth or supabase.storage anywhere.
3. You would be happy if the Supabase dashboard were just a SQL console.

Voroa as a Supabase alternative

Voroa’s managed PostgreSQL in Mumbai runs next to the service you deploy from GitHub, on one account and one bill. Sizes are priced in rupees, plus GST:

Bigger sizes go up to 8 GB of RAM, and a paid size can add storage at any time without recreating the database. Current prices are always on the Voroa pricing page.

Every size runs real PostgreSQL 18 (17 or 16 on the free size) with a SQL console in the dashboard. Extensions such as trigram search and UUID generation are one click each; the full list is in supported PostgreSQL extensions. Paid sizes can take nightly backups, which you turn on with one switch, and a database created on a paid size also offers vector search for embeddings.

Supabase vs Voroa side by side

What Voroa does not replace

Voroa does not include Supabase’s auth, file storage, realtime or auto-generated APIs. If your app depends on them, you would need a library or service for each, and staying on Supabase may be the simpler choice. Voroa fits best when you want plain PostgreSQL, your own backend code, data in India and an INR bill with a GST invoice.

How to move your data off Supabase

You do not need to create dump files. Voroa’s import copies the database on its own servers:

1. Create an empty PostgreSQL database on Voroa, on PostgreSQL 17 or 18. New Supabase projects run 17, and an import only goes into the same version or a newer one. The guide to creating and connecting a database covers this step.
2. In Supabase, open Connect and copy the Session pooler connection string (port 5432). The direct connection string only works over IPv6 unless you buy Supabase’s IPv4 add-on, and Voroa’s import connects over IPv4.
3. Open the database’s Import tab, paste the string, select Check, then Continue.
4. When it finishes, point DATABASE_URL in your app at the Voroa database and redeploy.

Your own schemas, tables, data and indexes come across. Supabase’s internal auth, storage and vault schemas do not, because they belong to Supabase and cannot run anywhere else. Check two things before you import: tables with a foreign key to auth.users, and row level security policies that call auth.uid(). Both point at Supabase’s auth, so change them to your own users table first, or drop them if your backend already checks who can see what. The full walkthrough is in importing an existing database. If you prefer pg_dump and pg_restore, PostgreSQL’s own guide to SQL dump and restore works against Voroa too.

FAQ

Is Supabase free forever?

The free plan has no time limit, but it is capped at 500 MB of database and two active projects, and a free project is paused after a week without activity. Every limit is listed in Supabase free tier limits.

Can I keep using Prisma or Drizzle after moving?

Yes. Both talk to PostgreSQL through a connection string, so you change DATABASE_URL and keep your schema and migrations as they are.

Is there a free Supabase alternative in India?

Yes. Voroa’s DB Nano size is free, needs no card, and includes 1 GB of storage in Mumbai. It suits a student project, a demo or an early product, and you can move to a paid size later without recreating the database.

Is my data stored in India on Voroa?

Yes. Voroa runs in Mumbai, and the database sits in the same region as the service that uses it.

I am also moving my app, not just the database. Where do I start?

The steps are similar to any platform move. Our guide on moving off Railway walks through deploying the app side.

Other Supabase alternatives

Voroa is not the only option, and the right one depends on what you used Supabase for:

• Firebase: Google’s backend with auth and a document database. A fit for mobile-first apps, but it is not PostgreSQL, so moving relational data means remodelling it.
• Appwrite: an open-source backend with auth, database and storage that you can self-host.
• Neon: serverless PostgreSQL with branching and scale-to-zero. Database only, billed in USD.
• PocketBase: a single-file backend built on SQLite, good for small apps you host yourself.

Pick Voroa when you want plain PostgreSQL next to your app in Mumbai, billed in INR with a GST invoice.

Move your database to Voroa

If Supabase is only your database, you can move it in one import and keep everything else the same. Create a free PostgreSQL database, paste your connection string, and your data is in Mumbai on a rupee bill.