Pause a Supabase project to stop compute cost via the Management API
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Documented steps
Get a Personal Access Token and your project ref.
POST https://api.supabase.com/v1/projects/{ref}/pause with the Authorization header set to your personal access token (no body needed).
Expect a 200 response; the project then transitions to PAUSING and then INACTIVE.
The database and all services become unavailable until you restore; data is preserved (backups are kept).
Official docs: https://supabase.com/docs/reference/api/v1-pause-a-project; https://supabase.com/docs/guides/troubleshooting/restore-project-after-90-days-pause
Known gotchas
Pausing stops compute billing charges but the project is fully offline while paused.
A project paused for more than 90 days can no longer be restored through Studio; recover data only by downloading backups and migrating to a new project.
Requires 'projects:write' capability (full PAT privileges). A 404 means the ref is wrong.
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