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Quay vs Supabase

A side-by-side editorial comparison of Quay and Supabase — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.

Quay vs Supabase: at a glance

FeatureQuaySupabase
SectorInfra & APIsInfra & APIs, DevOps
Velocity score5.00.0
Sparks · 30d00
Top themescontainer-registry, cve-remediation, ssrf-hardening, backportssecure-defaults, breaking-changes, row-level-security, postgrest
Last editorial update1h ago12d ago
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What is Quay?

Quay ships nothing but CVE remediation, mirrored across two supported branches

Every entry in Quay's recent history is a security maintenance release, and they arrive as coordinated pairs — a 3.10.x and a 3.12.x tag cut hours apart carrying the same fixes cherry-picked to each branch. The content is dependency remediation against tracked advisories plus two SSRF hardening fixes, one in proxy cache upstream registry configuration and one in repository mirroring sources. No feature work appears in the window.

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What is Supabase?

Supabase is closing its most-exploited default: tables stop being public unless you say so.

The last month is dominated by tightening defaults rather than adding surface. New tables in the public schema will no longer be auto-exposed to the Data and GraphQL APIs, pg_graphql stops being enabled by default, and the OAuth token endpoint is being corrected to return 200 per OAuth 2.1. Alongside that, custom OAuth/OIDC providers landed for Auth and an RLS Tester entered preview.

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Quay vs Supabase: editorial side-by-side

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Quay
INFRA · APIS
5.0

Quay ships nothing but CVE remediation, mirrored across two supported branches

◆ Current state

Every entry in Quay's recent history is a security maintenance release, and they arrive as coordinated pairs — a 3.10.x and a 3.12.x tag cut hours apart carrying the same fixes cherry-picked to each branch. The content is dependency remediation against tracked advisories plus two SSRF hardening fixes, one in proxy cache upstream registry configuration and one in repository mirroring sources. No feature work appears in the window.

◆ Where it's heading

This is a registry in pure maintenance posture on its long-lived branches, with the release process itself automated down to changelog-bump commits. The recurring SSRF fixes across proxy cache and mirroring suggest a deliberate sweep through the code paths that fetch from upstream registries rather than isolated reports. Feature development, if it is happening, is landing on a branch this feed does not cover.

◆ Prediction

Expect the paired-branch cadence to continue at roughly the rate advisories land against the bundled Python and npm dependencies. The SSRF sweep looks close to complete, having now covered both proxy cache and mirroring.

Supabase logo
Supabase
INFRA · APISDEVOPS
0.0

Supabase is closing its most-exploited default: tables stop being public unless you say so.

◆ Current state

The last month is dominated by tightening defaults rather than adding surface. New tables in the public schema will no longer be auto-exposed to the Data and GraphQL APIs, pg_graphql stops being enabled by default, and the OAuth token endpoint is being corrected to return 200 per OAuth 2.1. Alongside that, custom OAuth/OIDC providers landed for Auth and an RLS Tester entered preview.

◆ Where it's heading

Supabase is paying down the security cost of its own convenience. Auto-exposing every public-schema table made the product fast to start with and easy to misconfigure; the fix is explicit Postgres grants, staged over six months from new projects in April to all existing projects on October 30. The RLS Tester is the same theme from the other side — the auto-exposure default only worked if row-level security was correct, and until now there was no way to check.

◆ Prediction

Expect the remaining rollout dates to hold and more of the developer experience to be rebuilt around explicit grants, with the RLS Tester graduating from preview as it becomes the tool people need to verify the new model. The October cutover for existing projects is the moment where this stops being an announcement and starts breaking things.

Alternatives to Quay and Supabase

Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Quay or Supabase.

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Recent activity from Quay and Supabase

Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.

  1. 13h agoQuayv3.12.21 patches six advisories and blocks SSRF in mirroring
  2. 15h agoQuayv3.10.25 carries the same advisory fixes to the 3.10 branch
  3. 20d agoQuayv3.12.20 bumps Go and blocks SSRF in proxy cache config
  4. 26d agoQuayv3.10.24 backports the Go bump and proxy cache SSRF fix
  5. 1mo agoQuayv3.10.23 clears PyJWT, urllib3 and shell-quote advisories
  6. 1mo agoQuayv3.12.19 clears the same four dependency advisories
  7. 3mo agoSupabaseDeprecation Notice: Dropping Support for Node.js 20
  8. 3mo agoSupabaseDeveloper Update - May 2026
  9. 3mo agoSupabaseBreaking Change: OAuth token endpoint will return HTTP 200 instead of 201
  10. 3mo agoSupabaseBreaking Change: Tables not exposed to Data and GraphQL API automatically
  11. 3mo agoSupabaseFragment of the no-auto-expose announcement
  12. 3mo agoSupabaseFeature Preview: RLS Tester

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Quay and Supabase?

They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Quay is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.

Is Quay better than Supabase?

Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Quay is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.

What are the best alternatives to Quay?

Top Quay alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Quay alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/quay for the full list with editorial commentary on each.

What are the best alternatives to Supabase?

Top Supabase alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Supabase alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/supabase for the full list with editorial commentary on each.