Service comparison

MongoDB Atlas vs. PlanetScale

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

Last 90 days · 27 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

MongoDB Atlas

mongodb.com

Ongoing incident
- 90-day uptime
  
  93.21%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  19
  
  3 major · 16 minor
- Median resolution
  
  2h 6m
- Longest outage
  
  47h 54m
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PlanetScale

planetscale.com

Ongoing incident
- 90-day uptime
  
  98.93%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  8
  
  5 major · 3 minor
- Median resolution
  
  47m
- Longest outage
  
  16h 59m
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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	100.00%	98.61%	+1.39 pp
Last 30 days	96.90%	99.34%	-2.44 pp
Last 90 days	93.21%	98.93%	-5.72 pp

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

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

MongoDB Atlas

19 total

3 major 16 minor
- Median resolution
  
  2h 6m
- Longest outage
  
  47h 54m
PlanetScale

8 total

5 major 3 minor
- Median resolution
  
  47m
- Longest outage
  
  16h 59m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

MongoDB Atlas
- Jul 17
  
  MongoDB Atlas and Atlas for Government: New AWS Backup and AWS Data Transfer costs will be unavailable between July 17 and 20
  
  Ongoing
  
  Minor
- Jul 9
  
  Atlas Stream Processing is experiencing issues in Azure - West Europe
  
  2h 7m
  
  Minor
- Jul 9
  
  Atlas is experiencing issues with issuing certificates from Lets Encrypt
  
  19h 18m
  
  Minor
- Jul 9
  
  Atlas Data Federation and Online Archive cloud-provider IAM authentication error
  
  42m
  
  Minor
- Jul 2
  
  Impaired Cluster Operations due to Lets Encrypt Service Degradation
  
  26m
  
  Minor
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PlanetScale
- Jul 20
  
  Insights metrics underreporting
  
  Ongoing
  
  Minor
- Jul 18
  
  Connectivity issues in us-east-1
  
  32m
  
  Major
- Jul 17
  
  API and dashboard errors
  
  27m
  
  Major
- Jul 16
  
  Single Sign On (SSO) unavailable
  
  1h 21m
  
  Minor
- Jul 6
  
  Development branches with MySQL Vectors not serving
  
  2h 26m
  
  Major
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Bottom line

PlanetScale wins

PlanetScale edges out on 90-day uptime.

MongoDB Atlas posted 93.21% vs. 98.93% for PlanetScale (Δ -5.72 pp). Incidents: 19 vs. 8 (+11).

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