PlanetScale vs Push Security

The two products operate in entirely different layers of the stack, so "features" don't overlap at any point. Push Security's capability set is defensive and browser-resident: behavioral phishing detection, AiTM reverse-proxy detection, cloned-login and Browser-in-the-Browser detection, ClickFix clipboard-injection blocking, device-code phishing blocking (including kits aimed at bypassing passkeys), consent phishing and malicious OAuth integration detection, malicious browser extension risk scoring and allowlisting, infostealer delivery detection, ghost-login detection for SSO bypass, MFA status monitoring, session-hijacking detection via browser session markers, and credential-stuffing detection across SaaS logins. It also inventories shadow AI usage and controls prompts, clipboard use, and file uploads to LLMs.

PlanetScale's feature set is data-layer infrastructure: managed Postgres with NVMe-backed unlimited IOPS, Vitess MySQL-compatible horizontal sharding, branch-per-environment with deploy requests, online schema changes with revert, automated failover across three availability zones, PgBouncer connection pooling on port 6432, read replicas, automated backups, Database Traffic Control query budgets, and Query Insights. It also ships a pscale CLI and postgres branches from a restore point. Recent news extends this with Neki extensions manageable via Terraform and the CLI, external Vitess keyspaces, and per-shard VTTablet sizing.

One common thread is workflow tooling — Push integrates with Okta, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Teams, Sentinel, Datadog, Splunk, SentinelOne, Slack and a REST API; PlanetScale integrates with Terraform, PgBouncer, AWS/GCP Marketplace and MCP. But the attack surface Push defends and the database PlanetScale runs never intersect.

Push Security uses a straightforward per-seat model: $5/user/month with a freemium entry point, explicitly positioned for mid-market security teams under 500 seats. That predictability is the pitch — phishing and shadow-AI defense at a fixed cost per employee rather than consumption-based billing that scales with traffic.

PlanetScale is also freemium but consumption-oriented, the standard shape for managed database platforms: you pay for the database capacity, replicas, and storage you provision, with tiers gating things like multi-region high availability and SLA strength (99.99% single-region, 99.999% multi-region on Enterprise per the static facts). Its listings on AWS and GCP Marketplace suggest enterprise procurement paths rather than self-serve seats.

Comparing the two numerically is meaningless because the units differ — a per-user security subscription versus a per-database infrastructure spend. A 200-person company could pay roughly $1,000/month for Push Security across the org, while a single production Postgres cluster on PlanetScale could cost more or less than that depending on replicas and IOPS needs. Budget owners, approval chains, and renewal cycles are separate. If you're evaluating cost, evaluate each against its own alternatives: Push against email/SWG/enterprise-browser spend, PlanetScale against Aurora or RDS (which its positioning explicitly targets).