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Managed Postgres

5 managed Postgres databases ranked on 6 criteria, including pricing clarity and free tier. How we score

Hosted Postgres databases, compared on pricing, free tiers, backups and recovery, compliance and team controls from their public pages. 5 products, checked Oct 2026.

5 products

  • Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

    Managed Postgres

    What you're paying for: Compliance included

    Managed Postgres in your own AWS account from $0.016 an hour, with point-in-time restore up to 35 days and a self-serve HIPAA BAA.

    • Free trial
    • Self-serve
    • Usage-based
    From$0.016/hourFacts checked

  • PlanetScale

    Managed Postgres

    What you're paying for: Worth the price

    Production Postgres at a fixed monthly price per cluster, from $10 for 1 GiB, with SOC 2 Type 2 reports and BAAs on the self-serve plan.

    • Paid only
    • Self-serve
    • Usage-based
    From$5/moFacts checked

  • Neon

    Managed Postgres

    What you're paying for: Worth the price

    Postgres you pay for by the compute hour, with scale to zero, branches that start with your data, and a free plan of 100 projects.

    • Free plan
    • No card needed
    • Self-serve
    • Usage-based
    From$0.106/CU-hourFacts checked

  • Supabase

    Managed Postgres

    What you're paying for: Saves engineering time

    A Postgres database with auth, storage and APIs in one project for $25 a month, with daily backups and a choice of 17 AWS regions.

    • Free plan
    • Self-serve
    • Seat + usage
    From$25/moFacts checked

  • Crunchy Bridge

    Managed Postgres

    What you're paying for: Saves engineering time

    Managed Postgres on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud at one price per cluster, with 10 days of point-in-time recovery and data transfer included.

    • Paid only
    • Card required
    • Self-serve
    • Usage-based
    From$9/moFacts checked

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How we test managed Postgres

Managed Postgres services run the database for you: compute, storage, backups and upgrades. They differ less in the Postgres they run than in how they bill: a plan fee plus compute hours, compute billed only while it runs, or a monthly price per cluster size.

We compare them on the same six indicators, read from each vendor's pricing, security and documentation pages:

  • Pricing clarity: what a database bill is made of, what you must estimate, and whether any self-serve price is missing or stated two ways.
  • Free tier: whether a permanent free plan includes a database, its storage, and whether free projects are paused.
  • Price for a 10 GB app with staging: the lowest listed monthly cost at one stated scenario, with the assumptions named.
  • Backups and point-in-time recovery: how far back the entry paid plan can restore without a flat add-on, and which backups are included.
  • Compliance and data residency: the vendor's own SOC 2 Type II report, ISO 27001, a HIPAA BAA, an EU region, and the plan each one needs.
  • Team and control: SAML SSO, an audit log, branches that start with production data, and a self-hosted or own-cloud option.

Because the billing models differ, prices are compared at one reference scenario and the arithmetic is shown. Each review says which pages it was written from and when. Where we have run a product hands-on, the evidence is on its page.

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