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Heroku Postgres · $14000/mo (768 GB RAM, 6144 GB)
Heroku Premium-XL-9 at $14,000/mo is significantly overpriced for the specs offered. Linode's managed database delivers comparable performance at 21% less cost with better SLA and no reliability tiers, though HA clustering would add 2-3x more. Oracle's serverless option is dramatically cheaper but requires careful capacity planning and separate storage billing.
Delivers 512GB RAM and 112 vCPU on NVMe storage with 99.99% SLA, undercutting Heroku by $2,926/mo on comparable specs.
Caveat: Standalone instance has no built-in HA; HA clustering costs 2-3x more and backups are a separate add-on (~20-25% of monthly price); outbound bandwidth overages charged at $0.005-0.015/GB.
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 |
Extreme cost reduction via serverless auto-scaling model; suitable only if workload is bursty or development/test; storage billed separately at $0.0257/GB/month.
Caveat: Not a like-for-like replacement: 1 ECPU is ~0.5 OCPU workload capacity, far below Heroku's 768GB RAM tier; storage, backups, and performance tiers all billed separately; 99.95% SLA vs Heroku's implied 99.9%+ on Premium tier.
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