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Nile

Multi-tenant-first serverless Postgres with tenant isolation as a primitive.

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Quick facts

  • CategoryPostgres
  • EnginePostgres
  • PricingFreemium
  • LicenseProprietary
  • Created2023
  • GitHub stars0.6k
  • PostgresCompatible
  • Edge-readyNo

Bundled features: Tenant isolation Per-tenant analytics

What it is

Nile is serverless Postgres designed around multi-tenant SaaS — every row is implicitly scoped to a tenant, with isolation, per-tenant analytics, and per-tenant billing primitives. Younger than Supabase or Neon; specific fit for multi-tenant B2B briefs.

Best for

  • B2B SaaS where every customer is a tenant in the same database
  • Apps that want multi-tenancy as a first-class primitive instead of a manual modelling exercise

When not to pick it

Skip Nile for single-tenant or B2C workloads — the multi-tenant opinions are overhead there. Pick Supabase or Neon instead.

My take

Niche but well-targeted. If you are building multi-tenant SaaS and want the tenant primitive in the database itself, Nile is worth evaluating.

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Supabase

Postgres-based platform: database, auth, storage, edge functions, realtime, vectors. Open source.

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Neon

Serverless Postgres with branching, scale-to-zero, and a deep separation of compute and storage.

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If Nile is your pick — the next conversation is short

The 30-min call is where your database choice becomes a real architecture, a migration plan if you are switching, and a price range you can take to your stakeholders. Describe your stack, your scale, your data shape. I tell you whether Nile is genuinely your fit.