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Supabase

Open source alternative to Firebase, AWS Amplify and Backendless

Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative built on PostgreSQL, giving teams a full backend with auth, storage, real-time subscriptions, and auto-generated APIs. Apache 2.0 licensed; self-host with Docker Compose.

102.3K starsTypeScriptApache-2.0Active this week
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Contents
  1. 01What Supabase does
  2. 02Tech stack
  3. 03Similar open-source tools
TL;DR

Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative built on PostgreSQL, giving teams a full backend with auth, storage, real-time subscriptions, and auto-generated APIs. Apache 2.0 licensed; self-host with Docker Compose.Apache-2.0 · TypeScript · 102.3K stars · Active this week

what it does

What Supabase does#

Supabase is the open source Firebase alternative that puts PostgreSQL at the center of your backend, so teams get a production-ready database, auth, storage, and instant APIs without handing data to Google.

tech stack · detected from GitHub

What it's built on#

Languages
JavaScriptTypeScript
Frameworks
Next.jsReact
Databases
PostgreSQL
Runtimes
Deno
Infrastructure
AWS
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Repository

Stars
102.3K
Forks
12.4K
License
Apache-2.0
Latest
v1.26.05
Last commit
3 days ago
Last verified
May 13, 2026
Repo
supabase/supabase ↗

Additional details

Language
TypeScript
Open issues
1,015
Contributors
1,931
First release
2019

Categories

Backend DevelopmentDatabases & StorageAPIs & Integration

Tags

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