Case Study: Shotgun cuts database costs by 83% with Supabase

Supabase migration delivers an 83% reduction in data infrastructure costs for Shotgun

Shotgun, a French event ticketing platform with over 3 million users, was facing very high database and replication costs as traffic spikes from major events drove infrastructure needs. The company was spending about $12,000 per month across DigitalOcean and Fivetran, even though CPU usage often stayed low, making the database one of its biggest expenses. To reduce costs and prepare for growth, Shotgun evaluated Supabase as a potential replacement for its existing database setup.

Supabase helped Shotgun migrate its databases from DigitalOcean and Fivetran to Supabase’s Postgres database platform, with support during the migration and follow-up optimization help. The result was an 83% reduction in data infrastructure costs, lowering monthly spend from $12,000 to $2,155, while also improving performance with about 40% lower database response times. Shotgun also reduced its Fivetran usage, gained a more reliable system, and made it easier for new developers to work with the database using the Supabase dashboard.

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Florent Cailhol

Senior Software Architect