managed postgres providers

the same database — 2 vcpu, 8gb ram, 100gb storage, 100gb egress, running all month — priced twelve times, because nothing else makes this category comparable.

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Crunchy Bridge

we checked this$150/mo at the anchor

$150 with pooling, backups and egress all included — the only bill here you can predict exactly.

#production-databases-whe

Aiven

we checked this$150/mo at the anchor

one flat $150 across six different clouds, with networking genuinely free — and recovery behind a paywall.

#teams-who-need-postgres-#or-several#without-repricing-everyt

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

we checked this$127.57/mo at the anchor

the cheapest real instance here at $128 — before you add the pooler and the standby everyone needs.

#teams-already-inside-aws#reserved-instance-discou

Supabase

we checked this$146.50/mo at the anchor

a whole platform for $147 — and point-in-time recovery at $100 a month per week of retention.

#teams-who-want-auth#storage#edge-functions-alongside

Neon

we checked this$189.76/mo always-on

genuine scale-to-zero makes this the cheapest or the dearest option here, depending entirely on whether it's running.

#development#preview-environments#spiky-workloads-precisel

this page is deliberately short: a handful of managed postgres providers we looked at properly, rather than everything that exists. if you build one that belongs here, a free listing takes two minutes and $50 pins it to the top of this page.

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