Supabase is a mature, open-source Postgres platform: a set of strong building blocks you assemble and secure yourself. Appbricx is for apps a coding agent builds: it derives access rules from roles, tests every release as every user, runs the background work and hosts the app, so the agent can ship without wiring the pieces together.
| Topic | Appbricx | Supabase |
|---|---|---|
| Database | A Postgres database per project, with separate development and production databases. Publishing applies additive schema changes after a snapshot. | A dedicated Postgres database per project. Separate environments via extra projects or branching. |
| Access control | You declare what each role may read, create, update and delete; Appbricx generates the row-level security policies. Business rules check every write. | Row-level security policies you write in SQL, which gives full control and needs Postgres knowledge. |
| Testing before release | Verify runs on every release: a role by table permission matrix on the real database, signed-out access, and every page opened as every role in a headless browser. | Not built in. You write your own tests; database tests with pgTAP are supported. |
| Background work | Workflows on data changes, schedules, signed webhooks and topics, with retries, a dead-letter list and replay. | Edge Functions, cron jobs and queues as separate building blocks you combine. |
| APIs | REST for every table with aggregates, search, named SQL queries and an OpenAPI description. | Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs over your schema, plus client libraries in many languages. |
| Sign-in | Email, magic link, Google without a Google Cloud project, GitHub, two-factor codes and organisations. | Email, magic link, phone, many OAuth providers, SSO and MFA. |
| Frontend hosting | Publishes the app itself to a live link or your own domain with HTTPS. | Hosts the backend; the frontend is deployed elsewhere. |
| Coding agents | Built around them: an MCP server with 24 tools to build, verify, deploy and operate, a CLI and an HTTP API. | An MCP server and CLI for managing projects and the database. |
| Rollback | A snapshot before every publish and every production edit, the last 30 kept, one-click restore and deploy rollback. | Daily backups, with point-in-time recovery on paid plans. |
| Self-hosting | Docker Compose on your servers with the Appbricx Self-Hosted License, a one-time fee; or run in your cloud by us. | Open source, self-hosted with Docker at no license cost. |
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