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PgBeam compared
How PgBeam compares to Postgres poolers, database platforms, MCP gateways, and the access-governance tools built for human operators. Every page names where the other product is the better fit.
PgBeam vs AWS RDS Proxy
RDS Proxy pools connections to RDS and Aurora inside your VPC. PgBeam adds wire-level policy, PII masking, and a full audit trail for agent access, and works with any Postgres host, not just RDS.
PgBeam vs PgBouncer
PgBouncer is the de facto Postgres connection pooler: small, fast, self-hosted. PgBeam is a managed gateway that pools and adds agent policy, PII masking, caching, and a full audit trail.
PgBeam vs Supavisor
Supavisor is Supabase's cloud-native pooler, built to handle huge connection counts. PgBeam pools too, and adds agent policy, PII masking, caching, and an audit trail, over any Postgres host.
PgBeam vs Neon
Neon is serverless Postgres with branching and a low-latency driver. PgBeam is not a database: it is a policy and audit gateway that secures agent access to any Postgres, including a Neon database.
PgBeam vs a read-only Postgres role
A read-only role blocks writes and nothing else. PgBeam enforces read-only per credential at the wire and adds allowlists, PII masking, query budgets, a kill-switch, and a per-statement audit trail, without touching your database roles.
PgBeam vs a DIY Postgres MCP server
The reference Postgres MCP server runs on whatever your connection string grants, usually full privileges, and the guardrails are whatever you code and maintain. PgBeam is a hosted, policy-enforced MCP endpoint with read-only, masking, budgets, and audit built in.
PgBeam vs Supabase agent features
Supabase ships agent and MCP integrations for the databases it hosts. PgBeam is a policy and audit gateway that secures agent access to any Postgres, including a Supabase database, over the wire.
PgBeam vs an MCP gateway
MCP gateways like Pomerium, MintMCP, and MCPGuard put identity and per-tool policy in front of every MCP server an agent uses. They decide whether the call happens. PgBeam decides what the SQL inside that call may do, masks the columns coming back, and is still in the path when the agent skips MCP and opens a Postgres connection.
PgBeam vs human database access governance
Bytebase, Teleport, and Cyral govern how people reach production Postgres: a console or gateway session, an approval workflow, an audit organized around who did what. An agent has none of those. It has a connection string in an environment variable, and PgBeam is what makes that string safe to hand it.
Looking for the other direction? Integrations covers the clients and frameworks PgBeam plugs into.