---
title: "Postgres at PlanetScale with Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale (Changelog Interviews #684)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/postgres-at-planetscale-with-sam-lambert-ceo-of-planetscale-changelog-interviews-684--trwlcdpg5
source_url: https://changelog.com/podcast/684
type: article
source: "Changelog"
published: 2026-08-25T21:58:26.715Z
updated: 2026-08-26T00:03:57.594Z
tags: ["postgresql", "planetscale"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Postgres at PlanetScale with Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale (Changelog Interviews #684)

**[Changelog](https://daily.dev/sources/changelog)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale, returns to discuss the company's new $5 PlanetScale Postgres offering, the

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## Questions this post answers

### What is PlanetScale Postgres and how much does it cost to start?

PlanetScale Postgres is a managed Postgres offering from PlanetScale, priced starting at $5, aimed at making a fully managed, branchable Postgres database accessible for small projects as well as scaling to large workloads. It builds on PlanetScale's experience running database infrastructure at scale, including non-blocking schema changes and traffic control features.

_Developers evaluating managed Postgres providers can follow pricing and feature updates like this on daily.dev._

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