{"slug": "supabase-compute-runs-long-jobs-beside-postgres-alpha-only", "title": "Supabase Compute Runs Long Jobs Beside Postgres, Alpha Only", "summary": "Supabase launched Compute on Oct. 27 as a private alpha that runs long-lived services — AI agents, job processors and Dockerfile-based APIs — inside the same project as the Postgres database, targeting workloads that outgrow Edge Functions. Each service gets a full Linux environment with either 2 GB and 1 vCPU or 4 GB and 2 vCPUs, deployed via Supabase CLI v2.120.0 or later, but access is waitlist-only, limited to us-west-2 projects, and Supabase warns \"it's for evaluation, not production, and it may change or end.\" Supabase cited customer Dreambase, whose Postgres queries took a median of 2.9 ms on Compute versus 65 ms from another region, while flagging that every service receives all of the project's secrets and that there is no autoscaling, GPU or persistent disk.", "body_md": "# Supabase Compute Runs Long Jobs Beside Postgres, Alpha Only\n\nSupabase Compute runs agents and Dockerfile services beside the database in a private alpha. Not for production, and every service gets all project secrets.\n\nSupabase launched Compute on Oct. 27, a private alpha that runs long-lived services such as AI agents, job processors and Dockerfile-based APIs inside the same project as the Postgres database. It targets work that outgrows Edge Functions. Supabase’s warning: “It’s for evaluation, not production, and it may change or end” ([Supabase blog, Oct. 27, 2026](https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-compute-private-alpha)).\n\n## What It Runs\n\nSupabase said some work doesn’t fit in an Edge Function: it needs more memory or CPU, runs longer than 400 seconds, or is written in another language. Compute gives each service a full Linux environment. You deploy Node, Deno or any Dockerfile, and pick 2 GB with 1 vCPU or 4 GB with 2 vCPUs. A service can be public, with a URL, or private, with none.\n\nDeployment uses the Supabase CLI, v2.120.0 or later. You set `compute = true` under `[experimental]` in `supabase/config.toml`, create a service with `supabase compute new` and ship it with `supabase compute push`. Logs appear on a Compute page in the dashboard. The Management API has alpha endpoints to deploy, list and delete services.\n\nSupabase cited Dreambase, which moved its data agent onto Compute. Its Postgres queries took a median of 2.9 ms, versus 65 ms from another region. The figure is Supabase’s, for one customer.\n\n## The limits\n\nAccess is by waitlist. Only projects in us-west-2 qualify. Supabase listed the rest:\n\n- A service can be restarted at any time. Save long-running work to Postgres.\n- There is no autoscaling, GPU or persistent disk.\n- Public services suspend when idle. Private services keep running.\n- Sandboxes for AI agents aren’t part of the alpha.\n- Every service gets all of the project’s secrets.\n\nSupabase said waitlisted projects can try the alpha for free.\n\n## The take\n\nTeams that need a worker next to their data usually add a second platform with separate deploys and logs. Compute removes that.\n\nThe secrets rule is the one to read twice. A service running agent-written or third-party code with the project’s secrets in reach is a bigger risk than an Edge Function scoped to one job. Keep the alpha to throwaway projects, away from customer data.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/supabase-compute-runs-long-jobs-beside-postgres-alpha-only", "canonical_source": "https://firerun.io/supabase-compute-private-alpha-2026/", "published_at": "2026-10-31 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-31 09:47:54.894064+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Supabase", "Supabase Compute", "Edge Functions", "Dreambase", "Postgres", "Supabase CLI"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/supabase-compute-runs-long-jobs-beside-postgres-alpha-only", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/supabase-compute-runs-long-jobs-beside-postgres-alpha-only.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/supabase-compute-runs-long-jobs-beside-postgres-alpha-only.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/supabase-compute-runs-long-jobs-beside-postgres-alpha-only.jsonld"}}