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Heroku Postgres · $9/mo (10 GB)
Heroku Essential-1 at $9/mo is undercut on base price by Render Postgres Basic ($6/mo) and Scaleway DB-DEV-S ($11/mo), but both have material hidden costs and lower reliability SLAs. Google Cloud and Azure offer better uptime (99.99%) and more transparent pricing, though they require careful attention to egress and storage overages. The real risk with Heroku Essential is the reliability cliff (99.5% SLA, no HA, no fork/follow) and forced upgrades when row/connection limits are hit.
Lowest sticker price at $6/mo with 99.95% SLA, but storage and bandwidth are metered separately.
Caveat: Storage overage at ~$0.30/GB/month and bandwidth at ~$0.15/GB beyond allowance can quickly exceed savings; 256MB RAM is significantly smaller than Essential-1's 10GB.
| Provider | Plan | Price | Specs | |
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| Google Cloud | Cloud SQL · HDD storage | $0.12/mo | $0.118/GB/month | Visit |
| IONOS | Managed Databases (MariaDB/PostgreSQL) · DB RAM - per GB (low end) | $5.76/mo | Per GB RAM per hour, low end of published range | Visit |
| Render | Render Postgres · Basic-256mb | $6/mo | 256 MB RAM, 0 vCPU |
Slightly higher at $11/mo but includes 2GB RAM, 1 vCPU, and 10GB SSD with 99.9-99.99% SLA; development-tier pricing is transparent.
Caveat: Explicitly marked development/prototyping only with no HA available; egress charged at EUR 0.01/GB after 75GB free tier.
Comparable price at $12.41/mo with 99.99% SLA, 2GB RAM, 1 vCore, and transparent storage billing (~$0.115/GB/mo).
Caveat: Burstable tier has no reserved-instance discounts; storage and backup billed separately; outbound bandwidth charged above 100GB/month free tier.
Extremely low base price ($0.12/mo) with 99.99% SLA and sustained-use discounts available.
Caveat: Price shown is for storage only and excludes compute instance cost; network egress to internet billed per-GB beyond 200GiB/month free tier; high-availability configuration doubles costs; requires careful calculator use to estimate true total cost.
Lowest published price at $5.76/mo with 99.99% SLA and transparent per-GB RAM billing.
Caveat: Price is low end of published range and may not reflect full-featured tier; outbound data transfer beyond 2TB pooled allowance charged at $0.036/GB; building-block pricing (cores, RAM, storage separate) requires calculator to estimate real cost.
Before you switch
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| Render | Render Key Value (Redis-compatible) · Starter | $10/mo | 256 MB RAM | Visit |
| Scaleway | Managed Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL · DB-DEV-S | $11/mo | 2 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB SSD | Visit |
| Microsoft Azure | Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server · Burstable B1ms | $12.41/mo | 2 GB RAM, 1 vCPU | Visit |
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