Xata
the cheapest number in this ranking, from the vendor that publishes the fewest of the costs behind it.
a third cheaper than the mid-field on the numbers it does publish — and you cannot construct a complete bill from its pricing page.
at $98.08 xata is the cheapest verified figure here, roughly a third below crunchy and aiven, with storage billed by the minute rather than the hour and idle branches suspending compute entirely on every tier. copy-on-write branching shares deltas to keep branch storage cheap, which suits the ephemeral-environment pattern well.
it also rebuilt itself: the original product was a spreadsheet-style database with search, and it is now positioned as vanilla postgres with branching, with its core open-sourced in april 2026 — a self-hostable escape hatch none of the commercial rivals here offer.
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
- $98.08/mo at the anchor
- website
- xata.io
a third cheaper than the mid-field on the numbers it does publish — and you cannot construct a complete bill from its pricing page.
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.