Service comparison

PlanetScale vs. MongoDB Atlas

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

Last 90 days · 23 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

PlanetScale

planetscale.com

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  99.13%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  5
  
  2 major · 3 minor
- Median resolution
  
  32m
- Longest outage
  
  16h 59m
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MongoDB Atlas

mongodb.com

Major outage
- 90-day uptime
  
  75.65%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  18
  
  7 major · 11 minor
- Median resolution
  
  3h 3m
- Longest outage
  
  308h 55m
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Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window	PlanetScale	MongoDB Atlas	Δ
Last 24 hours	100.00%	100.00%	0.00 pp
Last 7 days	100.00%	98.75%	+1.25 pp
Last 30 days	99.82%	98.26%	+1.56 pp
Last 90 days	99.13%	75.65%	+23.48 pp

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

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

PlanetScale

5 total

2 major 3 minor
- Median resolution
  
  32m
- Longest outage
  
  16h 59m
MongoDB Atlas

18 total

7 major 11 minor
- Median resolution
  
  3h 3m
- Longest outage
  
  308h 55m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

PlanetScale
- May 14
  
  There is an incident in PlanetScale GCP us-central1 region impacting Postgres database availability. We are actively investigating and will update as soon as we have more information.
  
  32m
  
  Major
- May 13
  
  Database operations degraded in eu-west-2
  
  47m
  
  Major
- May 8
  
  AWS use1-az4 thermal event
  
  16h 59m
  
  Minor
- Apr 8
  
  Errors with database webhooks
  
  15m
  
  Minor
- Apr 2
  
  Currently experiencing issues with creating/updating/deleting Vitess credentials
  
  14m
  
  Minor
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MongoDB Atlas
- Jun 4
  
  Increased error rate creating and managing Search and Vector Search indexes
  
  2h 6m
  
  Minor
- Jun 2
  
  Investigating connection issues to ADFA in GCP
  
  1h 11m
  
  Major
- May 28
  
  Metrics may fail to send to DataDog Gov integrations
  
  1h 12m
  
  Minor
- May 23
  
  Authentication failures when running search queries for some clusters
  
  6h 17m
  
  Minor
- May 22
  
  [Atlas for Government] Data plane node logs unavailable for last 6 days
  
  1h 45m
  
  Minor
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Bottom line

PlanetScale wins

PlanetScale edges out on 90-day uptime.

PlanetScale posted 99.13% vs. 75.65% for MongoDB Atlas (Δ +23.48 pp). Incidents: 5 vs. 18 (-13).

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