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Heroku Postgres · $24000/mo (1024 GB RAM, 8192 GB)
Heroku Premium-10 at $24,000/mo is significantly overpriced for its specs. Oracle's serverless option costs 99.9% less for light workloads, while Linode's dedicated 512GB instance is 54% cheaper for comparable scale and includes HA-ready infrastructure. Both alternatives offer better SLAs and more transparent pricing.
Extreme cost advantage if your workload is light-to-moderate; serverless auto-scaling means you pay only for what you use, with storage billed separately at transparent per-GB rates.
Caveat: Only suitable if your actual compute demand is 1 ECPU or less; storage overages and block volume performance tiers can add hidden costs; requires separate storage provisioning and monitoring.
Before you switch
| Provider | Plan | Price | Specs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) · Serverless - 1 ECPU | $245.28/mo | 1 vCPU | Visit |
| Linode (Akamai) | Managed Databases · Dedicated G7 512 GB - Standalone | $11073.6/mo | 512 GB RAM, 112 vCPU, 7200 GB NVMe | Visit |
Half the price of Heroku for comparable 512GB RAM and storage; includes 112 dedicated vCPU, NVMe storage, and 99.99% SLA (vs Heroku's implied 99.9%).
Caveat: Standalone instance has no built-in HA; HA clustering costs 2-3x more; backups are a separate add-on (20-25% surcharge); outbound bandwidth overages charged at $0.005-0.015/GB after allowance exhausted.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Linode (Akamai)
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