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Heroku Postgres · $20/mo (32 GB)
Heroku Essential-2 at $20/mo is expensive for its specs and carries significant hidden reliability and upgrade-risk costs. Several providers offer comparable or better database tiers at 25-75% lower cost, though most require careful attention to storage overages and bandwidth limits.
45% cheaper at $11/mo with 2GB RAM, 1 vCPU, and 10GB SSD; 99.9-99.99% SLA covers most production use cases.
Caveat: Marked development/prototyping only with no HA option; 75GB/month egress free tier then EUR 0.01/GB overage.
| 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 |
38% cheaper at $12.41/mo with 2GB RAM, 1 vCPU, and 99.99% SLA; storage billed separately but transparent.
Caveat: Burstable tier has no reserved-instance discounts; storage (~$0.115/GB/mo) and outbound bandwidth ($0.01/GB over 100GB/mo) add up quickly on large databases.
25% cheaper at $15/mo with 1GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25GB disk, and 100% network uptime SLA.
Caveat: MySQL only (not PostgreSQL); bandwidth overage rates vary by data center; no HA replica included.
25% cheaper at $15/mo with 1GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 40GB disk, and 100GB transfer included.
Caveat: No data encryption; data transfer overage $0.09-$0.132/GB depending on region; 99.9% SLA is lower than Heroku's 99.95% Essential tier.
20% cheaper at $16/mo with 1GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25GB SSD, and 99.99% SLA; transparent pricing with no surprise tier-lock.
Caveat: Standalone (no HA replica); backups are a separate add-on (~$3.20-4/mo); outbound bandwidth $0.005/GB overage after pooled allowance.
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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 |
| Vultr | Managed Databases · MySQL CC-Reg 1vCPU/1GB (0 rep) | $15/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB | Visit |
| DigitalOcean | Managed Databases · Valkey Basic 1GB | $15/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU | Visit |
| AWS Lightsail | Managed Databases · 1GB Standard | $15/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 40 GB | Visit |
| Linode (Akamai) | Managed Databases · Shared 1 GB - Standalone | $16/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB SSD | Visit |
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) · Storage (all tiers) | $25.7/mo | 1000 GB | Visit |
| UpCloud | Managed MySQL · Single-node 1x2GB | $30/mo | 2 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB | Visit |
| UpCloud | Managed PostgreSQL · Single-node 1x2GB | $30/mo | 2 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB | Visit |
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