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Heroku Postgres · $17000/mo (768 GB RAM, 6144 GB)
Heroku's Private-XL-9 at $17,000/mo is significantly overpriced for the specs offered. Linode's Managed Database tier delivers comparable or superior hardware (512GB RAM, 112 vCPU, NVMe storage) at 35% of the cost, with a stronger 99.99% SLA. Oracle's serverless option is a poor fit for this workload size but illustrates how aggressively Heroku prices private/premium tiers.
512GB RAM on dedicated hardware with 112 vCPU and NVMe storage at less than two-thirds Heroku's price, plus 99.99% SLA vs Heroku's undisclosed reliability for Private-XL.
Caveat: Standalone (no HA); HA clustering costs 2-3x more; outbound bandwidth overages at $0.005-0.015/GB and backups are separate add-ons that could add 20-25% to monthly cost.
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 |
Dramatically cheaper entry point if you can right-size to 1 ECPU; serverless auto-scaling and 99.95% SLA eliminate over-provisioning risk.
Caveat: Not a true alternative for 768GB workloads; storage billed separately ($0.0257/GB/mo); designed for smaller databases; scaling to equivalent capacity would cost orders of magnitude more.
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