Rebase vs Hasura
Hasura is phenomenal at generating GraphQL APIs over Postgres. But APIs alone don't solve back-office problems. See why teams prefer Rebase when they need instant Admin Panels and tight logic bundling alongside their generated REST endpoints.
Missing Admin Interfaces
The Hasura Pain
Hasura purely focuses on the API layer. While it creates GraphQL instantly, it gives nothing to your non-technical teammates. To manage the data going through those APIs, you still have to build an admin panel from scratch or cobble it together with Retool.
How Rebase Solves This
Rebase generates both the API layer AND the application layer.
- Rebase generates real REST APIs based on your Postgres Schema.
- Rebase ALSO generates a gorgeous, React-based Admin tool with out-of-the-box editing, auditing, and dashboards.
Fragmented Logic Networks
The Hasura Pain
When you need to run business logic in Hasura (e.g. charging a Stripe customer when a row is inserted), you have to set up "Actions" or "Event Triggers"—which requires you to stand up, deploy, and maintain an entirely separate server backend to receive webhooks.
How Rebase Solves This
Rebase is a unified Node.js backend environment.
- Your custom business logic runs in the exact same Node process as your generated endpoints.
- No network hop latency for internal triggers, no disjointed webhook configurations.
- Maintain everything elegantly in one TypeScript repository.
Experience the unified backend.
Rebase and Hasura, answered
REST or GraphQL?
Rebase generates a REST API and a typed TypeScript SDK; Hasura generates GraphQL. If GraphQL is a requirement — a federated graph, clients that depend on it, an existing schema stitched across services — Hasura is built for that and Rebase is not. If you mainly wanted a good API over Postgres without writing one, the typed SDK gets you there with less machinery in between.
Can Rebase run on a database Hasura already serves?
Yes. Both point at an existing PostgreSQL database rather than owning it, so the same schema can back both while you evaluate. Hasura's metadata lives in its own schema and is left alone.
How do permissions compare?
Hasura's permission system is defined in its metadata and applied by the engine as it builds each query — powerful, and thoroughly designed. Rebase compiles security rules to PostgreSQL row-level security, so enforcement happens inside the database and survives any client, including ones that never go through Rebase. The trade-off is expressiveness against reach.
What does Rebase add that Hasura does not?
An admin panel your non-technical colleagues can use, generated from the same definitions as the API. Hasura's console is a developer tool for building and inspecting the graph; it is not a back office, and it is not meant to be. If you have been planning to build an internal UI on top of Hasura, that is the piece Rebase brings.
When is Hasura the better choice?
When GraphQL is the product decision, when you need to federate several data sources behind one graph, or when your clients are already generating code from a GraphQL schema. Those are Hasura's home ground.
Do I have to self-host Rebase?
No. Self-host it and you own the data, the code and the machine it runs on — that is the default and it is fully supported. Or deploy the same project to Rebase Cloud, which is live with real tenants today and opening in batches while it is in private beta, priced per resource rather than per seat. Your code is identical either way; hosting is a deployment target, not a fork.
Don't take our word for it.
The comparison that matters is the one you run. Point Rebase at a Postgres database you already have and see how it holds up next to Hasura.
