Neon
genuine scale-to-zero makes this the cheapest or the dearest option here, depending entirely on whether it's running.
the wrong tool for the workload we priced and the right one for most of the workloads people actually have.
our anchor is deliberately hostile to neon: a database running 24 hours a day is the one case where scale-to-zero earns nothing, and $189.76 is the most expensive real instance here except planetscale's oversized tier. suspended instead, the same database costs a little over its $35 of storage.
for development and preview environments that's transformative, and neon's branching is the cheapest here — ten branches free on launch, twenty-five on scale, then $1.50 a branch-month. monthly minimums were removed in december 2025, so it's pure usage-based with no floor. pitr is included via storage history rather than sold as an add-on.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- managed postgres providers
- pricing
- $189.76/mo always-on
- website
- neon.com
the wrong tool for the workload we priced and the right one for most of the workloads people actually have.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.
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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.
Aiven
we checked this$150/mo at the anchorone flat $150 across six different clouds, with networking genuinely free — and recovery behind a paywall.
