Migrate from Render to Supabase

Render is a popular Web Hosting service in the online services category that also has a managed Postgres service. Render has a great developer experience, allowing users to deploy straight from GitHub or GitLab. This is the core of their product and they do it really well. However, when it comes to Postgres databases, it may not be the best option.

Supabase is one of the best free alternative to Render Postgres. Supabase provide all the backend features developers need to build a product: a Postgres database, authentication, instant APIs, edge functions, realtime subscriptions, and storage. Postgres is the core of Supabase—for example, you can use row-level security and there are more than 40 Postgres extensions available.

This guide demonstrates how to migrate from Render to Supabase to get the most out of Postgres while gaining access to all the features you need to build a project.

Retrieve your Render database credentials #

1. Log in to your Render account and select the project you want to migrate.
2. Click Dashboard in the menu and click in your Postgres database.
3. Scroll down in the Info tab.
4. Click on PSQL Command and edit it adding the content after PSQL_COMMAND=.

Example:

Retrieve your Supabase Host #

1. If you're new to Supabase, create a project.
2. Go to the Database settings for your project in the Supabase Dashboard.
3. Under Connection Info, note your Host ($SUPABASE_HOST).
4. Save your password or reset it if you forgot it.

Migrate the database#

The fastest way to migrate your database is with the Supabase migration tool on Google Colab. Alternatively, you can use the pg_dump and psql command line tools, which are included in a full PostgreSQL installation.