Service comparison

MongoDB Atlas vs. PlanetScale

MongoDB Atlas vs. PlanetScale: uptime, incident frequency and resolution times, head-to-head.

Last 90 days · 20 incidents total · From each provider's official status page

Head-to-head

90-day summary

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%
99.03%
+0.97 pp
Last 30 days
95.93%
99.56%
-3.63 pp
Last 90 days
96.57%
99.74%
-3.17 pp

Uptime is the share of each window with no incident open on the provider's official status page. Δ is percentage-point difference (MongoDB Atlas minus PlanetScale). Higher is better.

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

  • MongoDB Atlas

    14 total

    6 major 8 minor
    • Median resolution

      2h 35m

    • Longest incident

      25h 21m

  • PlanetScale

    6 total

    4 major 2 minor
    • Median resolution

      46m

    • Longest incident

      2h 3m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

  • MongoDB Atlas logo

    MongoDB Atlas

    • Oct 20

      GCP Availability Zone europe-west2-b connectivity issues

      12h 36m

      Minor
    • Oct 9

      Issue impacting Atlas Search availability on certain clusters

      1h 47m

      Major
    • Oct 9

      Admin Admin API: Intermittent Increase in 5xx errors

      2h 35m

      Minor
    • Oct 2

      MongoDB Charts: Infinite login loop when creating new Charts projects

      5h

      Minor
    • Oct 1

      Trigger processing may be delayed globally

      5h 12m

      Major
  • PlanetScale logo

    PlanetScale

    • Oct 26

      Problems with Vitess connectivity and credential changes

      1h 38m

      Major
    • Oct 20

      Gap in dashboard metrics for AWS us-east-1

      1h 7m

      Minor
    • Oct 9

      AWS us-east-1 connectivity failures

      25m

      Major
    • Sep 28

      Branch creation delays in GCP europe-west-1

      2h 3m

      Minor
    • Sep 5

      Connectivity issues with Vitess databases in GCP

      14m

      Major

Bottom line

PlanetScale wins

PlanetScale edges out on 90-day uptime.

MongoDB Atlas posted 96.57% vs. 99.74% for PlanetScale (Δ -3.17 pp). Incidents: 14 vs. 6 (+8).

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