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compare · piezas vs supabase

Supabase gives you a database.
Piezas gives you capabilities.

Both sit underneath your app, a level apart. Supabase hands you the raw parts — a database, sign-in, file storage — and assumes an engineer on your team will build the rest out of them. Piezas assumes you have an AI coding tool and a business to run.

the short answer
On Supabase, your AI tool still writes the booking system, the invoicing, and the reminders — and that is exactly the code that breaks once real customers use it. AI is excellent at screens and glue, and unreliable at the parts that have to be exactly right. Supabase hosts that code. Piezas replaces it with capabilities our engineers already built and keep patched.
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What you get
Finished capabilities: user accounts, records and documents, bookings, invoicing, forms, scheduled work, notifications, audit trails.
Raw parts: a managed database, sign-in, file storage, and somewhere to run your own code.
What your AI tool writes
The screens and the workflow that are uniquely yours. Roughly 27% of the code of the same app built from scratch.
Everything above the database — the data design, the access rules, the business logic, the scheduled work.
Who keeps it correct
Our engineers. The hard parts are built once, tested, and maintained under every app on Piezas.
You. Whatever your AI tool wrote is what protects your customers' data.
Who you call when it breaks
Us. We keep the capabilities under your app running, and we answer.
Supabase keeps the database up. The app logic on top of it is your night.
Open source and self-hosting
No — a managed service. Your own isolated environment is available on the Dedicated plan.
Yes, with a large community. A genuine advantage if that is a requirement for you.
Best fit
Business software — client portals, booking, CRM, invoicing, intake — where the plumbing is not what makes you different.
Products where the data model is the product, and teams who want full control of it.

When Supabase is the right choice

You have an engineer who wants full control of the database.
Your product's core is something genuinely new, with no ready-made version of it.
Open source or self-hosting is a hard requirement.
Side projects that live happily on a generous free tier.

When Piezas is the right choice

✓You have no backend engineer, and no plans to hire one.
✓The app is business software — the plumbing is table stakes, not your edge.
✓You want the risky half of the code to simply not exist.
✓A larger customer will eventually ask you for an audit trail and a security review.

Plenty of teams use both — Supabase for a genuinely novel core, Piezas for everything around it that every business app needs and no business app is judged on.

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