- Supabase crossed 100,000 GitHub stars on April 1, 2026, joining the top-100 repositories on the platform.
- The company raised $120 million at a $5.1 billion valuation in October 2025 — up from $765 million just 12 months earlier.
- Co-founders Paul Copplestone (CEO) and Ant Wilson (CTO) have grown the platform to 4 million developers and $70 million ARR.
- Total funding exceeds $543 million, with backers including Accel, Felicis Ventures, and Y Combinator.
From Firebase Alternative to the Postgres Development Platform
Supabase crossed 100,000 GitHub stars on April 1, making it one of fewer than 100 repositories to ever reach that threshold. The milestone caps a 12-month stretch that saw the open-source backend platform’s valuation jump 554% — from $765 million to $5.1 billion — and its developer base double to 4 million.
Supabase has hit an impressive 100,000 GitHub stars! 🌟
— Supabase (@supabase) April 1, 2026
A massive THANK YOU to our amazing community for your unwavering support. Let’s keep building together!!
Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson founded Supabase in 2020 as an open-source Firebase alternative built on PostgreSQL. The pitch was simple: give developers a managed Postgres database with authentication, real-time subscriptions, storage, and edge functions — all accessible through a single API. Five years later, the company has 1,742 contributors, 35,000 commits, and ARR that surged from $30 million to $70 million in eight months.
The Vibe Coding Tailwind Behind $5 Billion
The explosion of AI-assisted development tools — Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Replit — has been a direct accelerator for Supabase. When developers vibe-code a full-stack app in minutes, they need a backend that deploys just as fast. Supabase is that backend. The $120 million Series E in October 2025 was explicitly tied to the vibe coding wave, with investors betting that the easier it becomes to build software, the more developers will need managed infrastructure underneath.
The 100,000-star mark puts Supabase in rare company alongside projects like Next.js, freeCodeCamp, and React. Unlike most repositories at that scale, Supabase is also a venture-backed company with paying customers, a $5 billion valuation, and a clear path to profitability. Copplestone and Wilson built the product developers wanted, then let the community do the marketing. 100,000 stars later, the strategy speaks for itself.
