Two peas, one pod
Postgres MCP Pro vs Supabase
By Sophie Filer · checked against both servers on 27 Oct 2026
If your database lives on Supabase and you are building the app, use Supabase’s own server: it handles migrations, logs, Edge Functions and branches as well as SQL. If you need to understand or speed up a Postgres database, anywhere, Postgres MCP Pro is the sharper tool, with query plans, index advice and health checks.
Postgres MCP Pro
SQL, query plans, health checks and index advice for Postgres.
Supabase
Manage Supabase projects, tables, migrations, logs and Edge Functions.
Side by side
| Compared | Postgres MCP Pro | Supabase |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Crystal DBA | Supabase |
| Works with | Any Postgres you can connect to | Supabase projects in your account |
| Beyond SQL | Explain plans, slow queries, index advice, health checks | Migrations, logs, advisors, Edge Functions, branches, types |
| Read-only mode | --access-mode=restricted | read_only=true in the URL |
| Sign-in | A connection string | Your Supabase account in the browser |
| Runs as | A Docker container on your machine | A hosted URL |
| Tools | 9 (4 only read) | 29 (18 only read) |
| Context its tools take | At least ~500 tokens | At least ~2,200 tokens |
| Runs on | Your computer | Hosted |
| You need | Docker; A Postgres connection string | A Supabase account |
| Our install check | Started in our test | Needs your setup first |
| Licence | – | – |
| GitHub stars | 3.4K | 3K |
| Last commit | 17 Aug 2026 | 26 Oct 2026 |
Stars and commit dates refresh daily; tool counts come from our own run of each server.
Pick Postgres MCP Pro if
- A query is slow and you want to know why
- You want index suggestions based on your real workload
- Your Postgres is on RDS, Neon, a VPS or your laptop
Pick Supabase if
- You are building a Supabase app in Cursor or Claude Code
- You want the assistant to write and apply migrations
- You debug from Supabase logs and advisor reports
Can you run both?
They work together on a Supabase project: Supabase’s server for building, Postgres MCP Pro pointed at the same database (with its connection string) for performance work. Keep both read-only on production.