Scope Ships Hosted-DB Agent Signup Benchmark: 18 Products, 1,035 Sessions; Prisma Postgres ~88.3%, Seven at Zero
On 2026-11-06, Scope (YC P26) founder Anand Paj (@anandPa94) released the first hosted-database agent signup benchmark. Agents start with no account, provision the named DB, write a record, and hand back credentials across 20 Claude Code/Codex/Cursor configs and 1,035 sessions. Official leaderboard: Prisma Postgres ~88.3%, Upstash ~63.3%, Neon/Nile ~43.3%; CAPTCHAs stopped 373 sessions; 7 of 18 products had zero successes.
Key Takeaways
- Source: Scope founder Anand Paj (@anandPa94) X post 2026-11-06 + official board tryscope.com/leaderboard/databases (vendor/evaluator)
- Scale: 18 hosted DBs × 20 agent configs = 1,035 sessions; only ~16.6% reached a first working result overall
- Leaders: Prisma Postgres ~88.3% (53/58), Upstash ~63.3%, Neon/Nile ~43.3%, ClickHouse Cloud ~38.3%
- Friction: CAPTCHAs stopped 373 sessions, bot blocks 105; 7/18 products had zero successes; 50 of 172 wins needed no account
- Takeaway: for agent-facing devtools, signup→write→hand-back-credentials is now part of the conversion funnel
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