PlanetScale Scaler

PlanetScale Scaler is the paid tier of PlanetScale designed for production workloads requiring high throughput, global distribution, performance, and operational controls beyond the Hobby level.

Scaler tier provides:

• Serverless MySQL with advanced performance scaling
• Global read replicas and routing
• Branching & Deploy Requests for safe schema changes
• Zero-downtime schema migrations
• Custom performance plans and enhanced throughput
• Backups and point-in-time recovery
• Observability & metrics for performance tuning
• Role-based access and environment controls

Scaler is suitable for production applications, high-traffic APIs, and global services that need scalable database infrastructure without managing underlying servers.