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Heroku Postgres · $6000/mo (122 GB RAM, 3072 GB)
Heroku Premium-XL-6 at $6000/mo is significantly overpriced for the specs and reliability offered. Multiple providers deliver comparable or superior database capacity at 75-95% lower cost, with better uptime SLAs and more transparent pricing. Even accounting for hidden costs, you have strong alternatives.
Native PostgreSQL with 64GB RAM, 16 vCPU, 1.28-6.4TB storage, 99.99% SLA, and transparent per-node pricing - a direct Postgres replacement at one-quarter Heroku's cost.
Caveat: IPv4 and APAC egress charges apply separately; verify region availability and early-exit penalties in your contract.
| Provider | Plan | Price | Specs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) · Serverless - 1 ECPU | $245.28/mo | 1 vCPU | Visit |
| DigitalOcean | Managed Databases · OpenSearch Memory Optimized 64GB | $566.85/mo | 64 GB RAM, 8 vCPU | Visit |
| Vultr | Managed Databases · Valkey Mem-Opt 8vCPU/64GB (0 rep) |
Purpose-built managed Postgres with HA, backups, and connection pooling included; 64GB RAM, 8 vCPU, storage billed separately at $0.28/GB - simpler feature parity than Heroku.
Caveat: No published platform SLA; regional pricing varies; extra RAM and egress incur per-GB overage fees; cross-region traffic is expensive.
If MySQL is acceptable, identical specs and pricing to PostgreSQL option with 99.99% SLA and 1.28-6.4TB usable storage.
Caveat: Same IPv4 and APAC egress caveats as PostgreSQL tier; MySQL rather than Postgres may require application changes.
If your workload can use OpenSearch instead of Postgres, this is the cheapest option at 64GB RAM, 8 vCPU, with 99.99% SLA.
Caveat: OpenSearch is not a relational database; bandwidth overages at $0.01/GB apply; only viable if you can migrate away from Postgres.
Extreme cost advantage with serverless auto-scaling, 99.95% SLA, and storage billed separately; ideal for variable or low-baseline workloads.
Caveat: 1 ECPU is far smaller than Premium-XL-6; storage at $0.0257/GB/month adds cost at scale; Block Volume performance (VPU) billed separately; only suitable if you can right-size down significantly.
Before you switch
| $650/mo |
| 64 GB RAM, 8 vCPU |
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| Linode (Akamai) | Managed Databases · Shared 64 GB - Standalone | $950/mo | 64 GB RAM, 16 vCPU, 1280 GB SSD | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Analytics - OpenSearch · Discovery-B3-64 | $1181.87/mo | 64 GB RAM, 16 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Managed Database - MySQL · Discovery-B3-64 | $1351.6/mo | 64 GB RAM, 16 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Managed Database - PostgreSQL · Discovery-B3-64 | $1351.6/mo | 64 GB RAM, 16 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Analytics - ClickHouse · Discovery-B3-64 | $1382.77/mo | 64 GB RAM, 16 vCPU | Visit |
| Fly.io | Managed Postgres · Performance | $1922/mo | 64 GB RAM, 8 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Managed Database - MongoDB · Production B3-64 | $1969.69/mo | 64 GB RAM, 16 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Managed Database - Valkey (Redis-compatible) · Production B3-64 | $2272.34/mo | 64 GB RAM, 16 vCPU | Visit |
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