We built Swyftstack because backend hosting was getting harder, not easier.
Two products - managed PostgreSQL and app object storage - done well. Predictable bills, instant provisioning, and a real human on every support email.
The story
Every year, cloud platforms add more features, more dashboards, more tabs, more services that depend on other services. Pricing pages get longer. Bills get harder to forecast. The thing most developers actually need - “a database for my app, and somewhere to store user files” - keeps getting buried under bundled features they didn’t ask for.
We watched friends launch perfectly fine side projects and then quietly shut them down a year later because the platform-fee creep made them uneconomical. We watched a startup we admire move off a popular BaaS not because anything was technically wrong, but because they couldn’t predict next month’s bill within a 3× range.
So we built Swyftstack: two products done well, on one dashboard, on one invoice. We don’t ship auth, edge functions, generated APIs, or realtime channels. There’s nothing wrong with those - they’re just not what we’re for. We host your database and your files; you wire them up to the framework, auth, and hosting you already use.
That focus is the whole point. It’s what makes 47-second provisioning possible. It’s why every support email gets a fast, personal reply from people who actually know the platform. It’s why the pricing page has three tiers and a published overage rate instead of a calculator.
Honest about fit, both ways.
The fastest way to be a good vendor is to tell people when we're the wrong choice. Here's a checklist.
You’ll like Swyftstack if…
- You’re shipping a real app on Vercel/Render/Fly/Railway and want a no-drama Postgres + storage backend.
- You’re tired of meter-based pricing and want a flat number you can budget for.
- You prefer real PostgreSQL with no proxy in front of it.
- You want to use Clerk / NextAuth / Auth0 for auth, not a bundled one you can’t remove.
- You’d rather get a fast, personal reply than file a ticket and wait in a queue.
You’ll be happier elsewhere if…
- You want a full BaaS (auth + edge functions + realtime + generated APIs) in one box - Supabase, Convex, or Appwrite are excellent at that.
- You need a free tier - we don’t offer one. Our plans are paid only, which is what lets us keep prices low and support fast.
- You need to self-host inside your own VPC - that’s a different product. Run PostgreSQL yourself; you’ll get the isolation you need.
- You need a database other than Postgres (MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB) - we’re Postgres-only on purpose.
Four features that aren't on the pricing page
Speed, simplicity, predictability, honesty. They sound like marketing words. We make engineering decisions with them.
Deploying a database in 47 seconds isn't a marketing number - it's a design constraint that shapes everything else we build. If provisioning is fast, restores are fast. If restores are fast, on-call is calmer.
We've removed words from the dashboard for a year. We're not done. Every page exists because it makes a specific decision easier, not because we shipped something and forgot to delete it.
Your bill should be the same number every month unless you change something. Usage-based pricing is a fine business model for the vendor; it's a worse experience for the customer.
If a competitor is right for your use case, we'll tell you. We'd rather lose a sale than mis-fit a customer. Read our Supabase / Railway / Heroku pages - we name the cases each one wins.
Why we charge for everything
Paid-only plans are a deliberate choice: they let us keep prices fair and answer every support email personally. If $19/month (or $9 during launch) isn’t right for you, we’ll happily help you find a free alternative.
Why we don’t offer self-hosting
The whole point of Swyftstack is that you don’t operate infrastructure. Self-hosting would ship the same complexity we’re trying to remove. PostgreSQL itself is open source and excellent - if you want to run it yourself, do that. We’d be a worse choice.
The receipts
What we shipped and when. We’ll update this page as new milestones land - both the ones we’re proud of and the ones we learn from.
Talk to a human
Email support@swyftstack.com for support, founder@swyftstack.com for everything else. Most replies come within an hour during working hours, and within a day otherwise.
Ready when you are.
Launch offer: Starter at $9/mo for 2 months, then $19/mo.