Powabase
For AI developers: Powabase combines Postgres, RAG, and agents so you ship AI apps faster without managing fragmented infrastructure.
Built by Hunter Zhao · Artificial Intelligence · Developer Tools · Freemium
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Powabase is a Product Hunt listing on Launch Llama with 468 total upvotes, founded by Hunter Zhao who joined in Jun 2026, compared against 6 alternatives.
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Powabase is a backend-as-a-service for AI-native applications, combining Postgres, RAG, agents, memory, workflows, and automation primitives in one platform. It helps agencies and in-house IT teams build new AI apps or add AI automation to existing products without stitching together fragmented infrastructure. Designed to work seamlessly with modern coding agents, Powabase helps teams ship faster while building more robust, token-efficient systems.
Key Features
- Index documents on upload with built-in RAG
- Manage every project with isolated Postgres database
- Build multi-step workflows visually and callable
- Search documents with vector, full-text, and hybrid retrieval
Use Cases
- Teams deploying production AI workloads needing isolated infrastructure and compliance guarantees
- Agencies building support agents from product documentation
- Developers integrating AI capabilities with coding agents
Pricing
Free plan with all features included. Paid plans (Self Serve at $25/month and Scale at $300/month) offer monthly credits with discounted per-call and per-hour rates. Enterprise pricing is custom.
FAQ
What is the Postgres backend for AI apps with RAG and agents built in?
Powabase. It's the Postgres backend for AI apps: per-project Postgres with pgvector, a built-in RAG pipeline, and an agent runtime behind a single REST API.
What is Powabase?
Powabase is the Postgres backend for AI apps. Every project gets its own Postgres, auth, storage, realtime, and dedicated compute, plus a RAG pipeline, an agent runtime, and workflows behind one REST API, so you never have to bolt a vector database and an agent framework onto your backend. Coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor drive it through the Powabase Agent Skill or the Powabase MCP server.
How is Powabase different from Supabase?
Powabase builds on the Supabase stack, so you start with the same Postgres, auth, storage, realtime, and PostgREST. On top of that, we ship a RAG pipeline, an agent runtime, orchestrations, and workflows in the same project, with dedicated compute per project. If you only need a database and auth, Supabase covers it. If you'd otherwise run a vector database and an agent framework next to it, Powabase replaces that stack with one API.
Can I add RAG to Supabase?
Yes. Supabase ships pgvector, so you can store embeddings and run similarity search yourself. Extraction, chunking, embedding, indexing, reranking, and the agent layer are then yours to build. Powabase ships that pipeline on the same Postgres. Documents extract, embed, and index on upload, with vector, full-text, hybrid, and tree search built in.
Do I still need a vector database with Powabase?
No. Embeddings live in pgvector inside each project's own Postgres, next to your app data, so there's no separate vector database to run, pay for, or keep in sync.
Does each project get its own database?
Yes. Every Powabase project is a dedicated stack with its own Postgres, storage, keys, and compute. There are no shared logical databases, no cross-tenant traffic, and no noisy neighbours.
What backend services does Powabase include?
A production Postgres database with instant REST APIs (PostgREST), GoTrue authentication, object storage, realtime, and Row-Level Security. The AI layer sits in the same project: knowledge bases (RAG), agents, multi-agent orchestrations, and workflows, all on one consistent API.
How does Powabase handle RAG and document retrieval?
Upload PDFs, Office files, images, or URLs and Powabase extracts (with OCR and vision models for scanned or image-heavy files), indexes, and retrieves them automatically. Embeddings live in your own Postgres (pgvector), with vector, keyword, and hybrid search plus reranking and multimodal retrieval. No separate vector database to run.
What file formats can Powabase process?
PDFs (including scanned, via OCR), Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, plain text, Markdown, and CSV, images (PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, TIFF), and web pages crawled from URLs.
What are Powabase agents?
A model of your choice plus tools, optional knowledge bases, and session memory, running a reason-act-observe loop. Agents get eight built-in tools (database read/write, HTTP, code execution, storage, web search and scrape), plus your own HTTP tools and MCP servers, with human-in-the-loop approval for sensitive actions. They compose into orchestrations and workflows.
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