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Heroku Postgres · $8400/mo (244 GB RAM, 2048 GB)
Heroku Shield-7 at $8400/mo is significantly overpriced for the specs. Multiple providers offer comparable or superior database capacity at 15-65% of the cost, with better transparency and fewer hidden reliability cliffs. However, most alternatives require careful attention to storage billing, bandwidth overages, and HA cluster multipliers.
Native PostgreSQL with 128GB RAM, 32 vCPU, and 2.56-12.8TB storage at one-third Heroku's price, with published 99.99% SLA and no reliability tier cliff.
Caveat: Storage is billed separately; IPv4 addresses and APAC egress may incur additional charges after mid-2026; region-locked to Milan/Paris.
| Provider | Plan | Price | Specs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) · Serverless - 1 ECPU | $245.28/mo | 1 vCPU | Visit |
| Vultr | Managed Databases · Valkey Mem-Opt 16vCPU/128GB (0 rep) | $1300/mo | 128 GB RAM, 16 vCPU | Visit |
| DigitalOcean | Managed Databases · Valkey Memory Optimized 128GB | $1300/mo |
If MySQL is acceptable, identical specs and pricing to PostgreSQL option with same transparent SLA and no hidden uptime tiers.
Caveat: Same regional and billing caveats as PostgreSQL tier; verify MySQL feature parity with your workload.
128GB RAM, 24 vCPU, 2.56TB SSD at less than one-quarter Heroku cost with 99.99% SLA and no reliability cliff.
Caveat: Price is estimated from linear node pricing and not directly confirmed; HA clustering costs 2-3x base price; backups are a separate add-on; outbound bandwidth overages at $0.005-0.015/GB.
128GB RAM, 16 vCPU, 325GB disk at 85% savings with 99.99% SLA and straightforward bandwidth overage pricing.
Caveat: Valkey (Redis-compatible) is not PostgreSQL; bandwidth overages at $0.01/GB; verify if in-memory caching fits your use case instead of persistent database.
128GB RAM at 85% savings with published 100% network uptime SLA and no per-connection limits like Heroku Postgres.
Caveat: Valkey is not PostgreSQL; bandwidth overage rates vary by data center; no replication in base tier; verify feature fit before migrating.
Before you switch
| 128 GB RAM, 16 vCPU |
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| Linode (Akamai) | Managed Databases · Shared 128 GB - Standalone | $1980/mo | 128 GB RAM, 24 vCPU, 2560 GB SSD | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Analytics - ClickHouse · Discovery-B3-128 | $2478.28/mo | 128 GB RAM, 32 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Managed Database - MySQL · Discovery-B3-128 | $2703.19/mo | 128 GB RAM, 32 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Managed Database - PostgreSQL · Discovery-B3-128 | $2703.19/mo | 128 GB RAM, 32 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Managed Database - MongoDB · Production B3-128 | $3979.23/mo | 128 GB RAM, 32 vCPU | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Managed Database - Valkey (Redis-compatible) · Production B3-128 | $4544.54/mo | 128 GB RAM, 32 vCPU | Visit |
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