Service comparison

MongoDB Atlas vs. PlanetScale

MongoDB Atlas vs. PlanetScale — reliability, API availability, and incident frequency head-to-head.

Last 90 days · 28 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

MongoDB Atlas

mongodb.com

Major outage
- 90-day uptime
  
  92.19%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  20
  
  6 major · 14 minor
- Median resolution
  
  2h 7m
- Longest outage
  
  92h 53m
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PlanetScale

planetscale.com

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  98.66%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  8
  
  5 major · 3 minor
- Median resolution
  
  57m
- Longest outage
  
  20h 49m
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Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window	MongoDB Atlas	PlanetScale	Δ
Last 24 hours	100.00%	100.00%	0.00 pp
Last 7 days	96.19%	100.00%	-3.81 pp
Last 30 days	95.26%	99.94%	-4.68 pp
Last 90 days	92.19%	98.66%	-6.47 pp

Δ is percentage-point difference (MongoDB Atlas minus PlanetScale). Higher is better.

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

MongoDB Atlas

20 total

6 major 14 minor
- Median resolution
  
  2h 7m
- Longest outage
  
  92h 53m
PlanetScale

8 total

5 major 3 minor
- Median resolution
  
  57m
- Longest outage
  
  20h 49m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

MongoDB Atlas
- Sep 16
  
  Support Portal Outage
  
  6h 24m
  
  Major
- Sep 11
  
  Atlas is experiencing issues with issuing certificates from Lets Encrypt
  
  2h 23m
  
  Minor
- Sep 3
  
  Impaired Cluster operations in AWS me-central-1 and AWS me-south-1
  
  Ongoing
  
  Major
- Aug 28
  
  MongoDB Atlas Log Integration service degraded
  
  < 1m
  
  Minor
- Aug 19
  
  Issues rotating certificates for projects containing only Atlas Free and Flex clusters
  
  1d 1h 21m
  
  Minor
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PlanetScale
- Sep 5
  
  Connectivity issues with Vitess databases in GCP
  
  14m
  
  Major
- Sep 2
  
  Dashboard and API 500 errors for postgres databases
  
  10m
  
  Major
- Jul 24
  
  Insights metrics underreporting
  
  3h
  
  Major
- Jul 20
  
  Insights metrics underreporting
  
  20h 49m
  
  Minor
- Jul 18
  
  Connectivity issues in us-east-1
  
  32m
  
  Major
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Bottom line

PlanetScale wins

PlanetScale edges out on 90-day uptime.

MongoDB Atlas posted 92.19% vs. 98.66% for PlanetScale (Δ -6.47 pp). Incidents: 20 vs. 8 (+12).

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