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Heroku Postgres · $3500/mo (244 GB RAM, 2048 GB)
Heroku Standard-7 is significantly overpriced for comparable managed database workloads. Multiple providers offer 128GB RAM instances at 37-63% of Heroku's cost, with better or equivalent SLAs and no reliability cliffs. Even accounting for hidden costs, the savings are substantial.
128GB RAM at 37% of Heroku's price with 99.99% SLA, no reliability tiers, and transparent per-GB bandwidth overages.
Caveat: Valkey (Redis-compatible) rather than PostgreSQL; verify your workload fits the in-memory model.
| 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 |
Identical specs to DigitalOcean at same price with 100% network uptime SLA and no per-tier reliability cliffs.
Caveat: Bandwidth overage rates vary by data center; Valkey only, not PostgreSQL.
128GB RAM at 57% of Heroku cost with 99.99% SLA, more vCPU (24 vs 2), and 2.56TB SSD storage included.
Caveat: Price is estimated from linear pricing pattern, not directly confirmed; HA clusters cost 2-3x more; backups are a separate add-on.
Native PostgreSQL with 128GB RAM, 32 vCPU, 2.56-12.8TB storage at 77% of Heroku cost and 99.99% SLA.
Caveat: Region-limited to Milan/Paris; APAC outbound traffic loses free-egress status after mid-2026; IPv4 billed separately.
Extreme cost advantage at 7% of Heroku with serverless auto-scaling and 99.95% SLA; storage billed separately.
Caveat: 1 ECPU is vastly underpowered vs Standard-7 (0.5 OCPU-equivalent workload capacity); storage overage and separate Block Volume VPU charges apply; not a true apples-to-apples comparison.
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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