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supabase-cost-tuning skill

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This skill helps optimize Supabase costs by selecting tiers, monitoring usage, and applying caching and batching strategies.

npx playbooks add skill jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills --skill supabase-cost-tuning

Review the files below or copy the command above to add this skill to your agents.

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SKILL.md
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---
name: supabase-cost-tuning
description: |
  Optimize Supabase costs through tier selection, sampling, and usage monitoring.
  Use when analyzing Supabase billing, reducing API costs,
  or implementing usage monitoring and budget alerts.
  Trigger with phrases like "supabase cost", "supabase billing",
  "reduce supabase costs", "supabase pricing", "supabase expensive", "supabase budget".
allowed-tools: Read, Grep
version: 1.0.0
license: MIT
author: Jeremy Longshore <[email protected]>
---

# Supabase Cost Tuning

## Prerequisites
- Access to Supabase billing dashboard
- Understanding of current usage patterns
- Database for usage tracking (optional)
- Alerting system configured (optional)

## Instructions

### Step 1: Analyze Current Usage
Review Supabase dashboard for usage patterns and costs.

### Step 2: Select Optimal Tier
Use the cost estimation function to find the right tier.

### Step 3: Implement Monitoring
Add usage tracking to catch budget overruns early.

### Step 4: Apply Optimizations
Enable batching, caching, and sampling where appropriate.

## Output
- Optimized tier selection
- Usage monitoring implemented
- Budget alerts configured
- Cost reduction strategies applied

## Error Handling

See `{baseDir}/references/errors.md` for comprehensive error handling.

## Examples

See `{baseDir}/references/examples.md` for detailed examples.

## Resources
- [Supabase Pricing](https://supabase.com/pricing)
- [Supabase Billing Dashboard](https://dashboard.supabase.com/billing)

Overview

This skill helps optimize Supabase costs by recommending the right pricing tier, identifying wasteful usage patterns, and implementing monitoring and alerts. It combines fee-estimation logic with practical optimizations like sampling, caching, and request batching to lower API and database bills. The goal is measurable cost reduction while preserving required performance and SLAs.

How this skill works

The skill inspects Supabase billing and usage metrics to map current consumption to pricing tiers and estimate monthly cost impact. It runs a tier-selection routine based on queries, bandwidth, and active users, then suggests configuration changes. It also generates monitoring hooks and alert rules to detect budget overruns and enables sampling, caching, or batching recommendations to reduce request volume.

When to use it

  • Analyzing an unexpectedly high Supabase bill or sudden cost spike
  • Planning migration or scale-up and choosing the most cost-effective tier
  • Implementing usage monitoring and budget alerts for finance or ops teams
  • Reducing API and database request volume through batching or caching
  • Validating cost impact before rolling out high-frequency features

Best practices

  • Start with a short historical analysis window (7–30 days) to identify trending usage before making tier changes
  • Implement lightweight sampling first to quantify savings without breaking functionality
  • Use caching and request batching at the application layer to cut repeated reads and writes
  • Create budget alerts tied to both absolute spend and percent-of-forecast to catch anomalies early
  • Validate suggested tier changes with a staged rollout and monitor SLA impact

Example use cases

  • Estimate monthly savings when moving from a pay-as-you-go plan to a predictable monthly tier
  • Detect and alert on an automated job that suddenly increased read queries overnight
  • Introduce sampling for analytics endpoints to drop API calls while maintaining statistical fidelity
  • Recommend caching strategy for high-frequency read routes to reduce database egress and RPC counts
  • Configure budget alerts that notify engineering and finance channels at 50%, 80%, and 100% of forecast

FAQ

Do I need direct access to the Supabase dashboard?

Yes. Access to billing and usage metrics is required to run accurate analyses and tier recommendations.

Will sampling or caching change API behavior?

Sampling reduces data resolution for high-volume endpoints and caching returns recent responses; both require validation to ensure they meet accuracy and freshness needs.

Can this skill automate billing alerts?

The skill generates alert rules and integration guidance, which you can wire into your existing alerting system to automate notifications.