Move your backend somewhere your AI actually knows.
Xano gets an app running without a backend team, and then you outgrow it. Moving to Supabase puts your data in Postgres and your logic in TypeScript, so the whole app is one codebase in languages every tool and every model already knows, running on infrastructure you own.
Every platform transfers some things cleanly and forces a rebuild of
others. Here is the honest split for Xano, so you can see
the shape of the work before you talk to anyone.
Comes across
Your dataAll of it. Xano is a database underneath, so tables and rows move across into Postgres without drama. This is the part people worry about and it is the part that goes smoothly.
Your schema, nearly as-isTables, fields and relationships translate fairly directly, because both sides are relational. We tidy up types on the way through, since a few Xano field types map to something more precise in Postgres.
Your integrationsAnything talking to a third party, email, payments, file uploads, keeps doing the same job. The calls get rewritten, the behaviour does not change.
Gets rebuilt
Every API endpointEvery endpoint gets rewritten in TypeScript. Much of it collapses on the way, because a lot of what a function stack does step by step, Postgres and Supabase give you directly.
Authentication and access rulesThis is the important one. In Xano, who can see what is enforced inside your endpoints. In Supabase it moves into the database itself as row level security, so the rule is attached to the table rather than to whichever endpoint remembered to check. It is more work up front and considerably harder to get wrong later.
Background jobsScheduled tasks and triggers get rebuilt as Postgres functions or edge functions, depending on what they actually do.
Where the work actually is
The data is the easy half and the access rules are the hard half. Rewriting endpoints is mechanical, and a fair amount of hand-written logic disappears once Postgres is doing the work.
What takes real care is permissions: every rule that was enforced inside an endpoint has to be restated as row level security, and each one has to be tested from the point of view of a user who should not be able to see the row. That is the part worth paying attention to, because it is the part where a mistake is not visible until it matters.
FAQ
Straight answers.
Will we lose any data in the move?
No. Both Xano and Supabase are relational databases, so the move is a schema translation and a data transfer rather than a reinterpretation. We run the migration into a staging environment first and compare row counts and spot-check records against the live Xano instance before anything is switched over. Your Xano instance stays untouched and running until you are satisfied.
How long does a Xano migration take?
It depends almost entirely on how many endpoints you have and how much logic sits inside them, not on how much data you hold. A million rows move as easily as a thousand. Forty function stacks with branching logic is a much bigger job than four. We count them during the audit and quote it fixed before starting.
What is row level security and why does it matter?
It is a Postgres feature that attaches access rules to the table itself rather than to your API code. Instead of every endpoint remembering to check that a user owns a record, the database refuses to return rows the user should not see, regardless of which query asked. It matters because the common way apps leak customer data is one endpoint that forgot the check. With row level security there is no endpoint to forget.
Can we keep our frontend and only move the backend?
Sometimes, and we will tell you honestly whether it is worth it. If your frontend is a normal codebase you own, pointing it at a new API is realistic. If it is Webflow plus Wized, the frontend is tied to the platform and usually moves at the same time, which is the situation most Xano users are actually in.
Why Supabase rather than staying on a managed backend?
Because Supabase is Postgres rather than a proprietary layer over one. Your schema is standard SQL, your access rules are a standard Postgres feature, and if you ever want to leave Supabase you can take the database somewhere else. That is a different kind of ownership from a platform where the logic only exists inside the vendor's editor.
Do you do this without breaking the live app?
Yes. The new stack is built and tested alongside the running one, not on top of it. Your Xano app keeps serving users the entire time. We cut over once, deliberately, after you have used the new version yourself, and we keep the old instance available afterwards until you are confident.
The parts that are the same either way
How we map URLs before rebuilding anything, what you keep, and what
you stop paying for all live on the migrations page rather than being
repeated here.
Book a 30-minute call. We'll look at what you have, tell you what moving actually involves, and quote it fixed. If you're better off staying where you are, we'll say so.
