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PlanetScale Databases, Now Billed Straight to Your Cloudflare Account!

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Hey everyone, it's Shiichan! Today I found some news that makes paying for your cloud stack a little easier.

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What was announced?

Cloudflare's Changelog announced that you can now create PlanetScale Postgres and MySQL databases right from the Cloudflare dashboard, and have that usage billed to your Cloudflare account.

Pay-as-you-go customers can use it right away. Contract customers will be able to add PlanetScale usage to their contract starting July 2026, so reach out to your Cloudflare account team if you are interested.

The story so far

Until now, you could use PlanetScale from Cloudflare Workers, but you had to manage the database contract and billing separately on the PlanetScale side. That meant a separate invoice for each service.

What changes

Now you can spin up a PlanetScale database straight from the Cloudflare dashboard, and roll the payment into your single Cloudflare invoice. If you build mostly on Workers, you no longer have to hop between consoles, and your billing lands in one place.

Databases you create connect to Workers through Hyperdrive. Hyperdrive manages connection pools and query caching, so you can use PlanetScale as a central relational database for your Workers apps, without changing your drivers, ORM libraries, or SQL tooling.

Dive Deep

Here is how billing works. Your PlanetScale usage shows up on your Cloudflare invoice each billing period as a dollar total at PlanetScale's standard pricing. You can inspect the per-database breakdown from PlanetScale's dashboard.

Even when you create it through Cloudflare, you get the same PlanetScale developer experience: development branches, query insights, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support for agents. To get started, check out the PlanetScale Postgres and MySQL with Hyperdrive guide.

Wrap-up

  • You can create PlanetScale Postgres and MySQL from the Cloudflare dashboard
  • Usage is billed to your Cloudflare account (pay-as-you-go now, contracts from July 2026)
  • It connects to Workers via Hyperdrive, and your drivers and ORM stay the same
  • Development branches, query insights, and MCP server support are all still there

If you build on Workers and want your relational database contract and billing in one place, this update is right up your alley!

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