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Heroku Postgres · $1500/mo (30.5 GB RAM, 768 GB)
Heroku Private-4 at $1500/mo is dramatically overpriced for the specs offered. Competitors deliver 16GB RAM managed databases for $140-340/mo with better or equivalent SLAs, and even Fly.io's more powerful 32GB HA Postgres is only $962/mo. Unless you need Heroku's specific ecosystem lock-in, switching saves 80-90%.
Cheapest option by far at $140/mo for 16GB RAM with 99.99% SLA, beating Heroku by over $1300/mo.
Caveat: This is OpenSearch (not PostgreSQL); if you need Postgres specifically, Scaleway PostgreSQL at $158/mo is the cheapest Postgres alternative.
| Provider | Plan | Price | Specs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | Managed Databases · OpenSearch Memory Optimized 16GB | $140.1/mo | 16 GB RAM, 2 vCPU | Visit |
| Scaleway | Managed Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL · DB-PRO2-XS | $158/mo | 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 50 GB SSD | Visit |
| Vultr | Managed Databases · Valkey Mem-Opt 2vCPU/16GB (0 rep) |
Native PostgreSQL at $158/mo with 16GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 50GB SSD, and 99.9-99.99% SLA; saves $1342/mo vs Heroku.
Caveat: Storage is capped at 50GB vs Heroku's 768GB; egress traffic billed at EUR 0.01/GB after 75GB free tier.
16GB RAM at $160/mo with 100% network uptime SLA; $1340/mo cheaper than Heroku.
Caveat: This is Valkey (Redis-compatible), not PostgreSQL; bandwidth overage rates vary by data center location.
16GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 480GB disk, 300GB transfer, 99.9% SLA for $245/mo; saves $1255/mo.
Caveat: Data transfer overages are $0.09-0.132/GB depending on region; storage is still only 480GB vs Heroku's 768GB.
32GB RAM (larger than Heroku), 4 vCPU, includes HA, backups, and connection pooling for $962/mo; saves $538/mo and offers better reliability.
Caveat: Storage billed separately at $0.28/GB; machine prices vary by region; no published platform-wide SLA (Enterprise support required for custom SLA).
Before you switch
| $160/mo |
| 16 GB RAM, 2 vCPU |
| Visit |
| AWS Lightsail | Managed Databases · 16GB Standard | $245/mo | 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 480 GB | Visit |
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) · Serverless - 1 ECPU | $245.28/mo | 1 vCPU | Visit |
| Linode (Akamai) | Managed Databases · Shared 16 GB - Standalone | $250/mo | 16 GB RAM, 6 vCPU, 320 GB SSD | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Managed Database - Valkey (Redis-compatible) · Discovery-B3-16 | $284.04/mo | 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Analytics - OpenSearch · Discovery-B3-16 | $295.5/mo | 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Managed Database - MySQL · Discovery-B3-16 | $337.92/mo | 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Managed Database - PostgreSQL · Discovery-B3-16 | $337.92/mo | 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Analytics - Kafka · Kafka Connect Discovery-B3-16 | $339.01/mo | 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Analytics - ClickHouse · Discovery-B3-16 | $402.6/mo | 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Managed Database - MongoDB · Production B3-16 | $506.99/mo | 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPU | Visit |
| Fly.io | Managed Postgres · Scale | $962/mo | 32 GB RAM, 4 vCPU | Visit |
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