How do I fix "Supabase project is paused"?

Restore the project from the Supabase dashboard. For anything people rely on, move to a paid plan. Add an uptime check so you hear about outages before your users do.

Supabase project is paused

Supabase

What it means

Free Supabase projects pause after a period without activity. While paused, the database and auth do not answer, so the whole app stops working.

Why it happens

The project is on the free plan and had a quiet week.
A demo or side project nobody opened for a while.

How to fix it

Restore the project from the Supabase dashboard.
For anything people rely on, move to a paid plan.
Add an uptime check so you hear about outages before your users do.

Let your AI find the cause

Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable or whichever AI built your app. It looks first and changes nothing until you have read the answer.

My Supabase project was paused and my app went down. Without changing anything yet, tell me what my app shows users when the database does not answer, and suggest a simple uptime check and a friendly error page.