Managed Postgres · Comparison
Crunchy Bridge vs PlanetScale
2 products compared side by side: what you pay for with each one first, then the five access facts, entry prices, recorded plan limits and the bottom line of each review. The evidence note under the table says how each product was checked.
Side by side
| Metric | Crunchy Bridge | PlanetScale |
|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Saves engineering timeManaged Postgres on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud at one price per cluster, with 10 days of point-in-time recovery and data transfer included. | Worth the priceProduction 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. |
| Overall score | 5.9 | 6.7Best |
| Free option | Paid only | Paid only |
| Card to start | Card required | –Not measured |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $9/mo | $5/mo |
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Usage-based |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing units | Cluster size per month (prorated), storage (GB) | Cluster size per month, storage above 10 GB, backups above 2× disk |
| Free plan | None; Hobby-0 from $9/mo plus storage | None; single node from $5/mo |
| 10 GB app with staging, per month | $22.17 on Hobby, computed | $15 on Base, computed |
| Point-in-time recovery | Any minute in the last 10 days, every plan | 2 days by default; longer with custom backup schedules |
| Automatic backups at no extra charge | Daily base backups plus WAL, kept 10 days | Every 12 hours, kept 2 days |
| SOC 2 Type II report | On request from Crunchy Data; no plan limit stated | Base plan (ISO 27001 not stated) |
| HIPAA BAA | On request; no plan limit stated | Base plan, on request |
| EU regions | Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris, Stockholm, Milan (AWS); also Azure and GCP | Frankfurt, Dublin (AWS); Belgium, Netherlands (GCP) |
| SAML SSO for the dashboard | Not supported; Google, Microsoft or OpenID Connect SSO | $199/mo add-on on Base |
| Branch with production data | Yes, a fork from any point in the last 10 days | Yes, by restoring a backup to a branch |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, Crunchy Bridge includes 10 days of recovery on every plan and keeps the bill to a cluster price plus storage. Its lowest-priced plans are Hobby, which the docs say is not for production, and dashboard SSO is OpenID Connect rather than SAML. | From its public pages, PlanetScale lists the lowest price for our scenario and the most compliance on its entry plan, with backups and PITR included. There is no free plan, and its Postgres branches are separate databases rather than copies. |
Evidence: Crunchy Bridge: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; PlanetScale: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
When to pick each
In the words of each review, with the date its facts were checked.
From our Crunchy Bridge review
Checked Oct 15, 2026- Pick Crunchy Bridge when
- You want 10 days of point-in-time recovery, forks that start with production data, and data transfer included in the price.
- Pick PlanetScale when
- You want the lower price in our scenario, SOC 2 and a BAA listed on the entry plan, and SAML SSO.
Entry price
Baseline: each product's cheapest paid plan, per month. Included usage differs, so read the line under each price.
- Crunchy BridgeHobby-0$9/mo2 burstable vCPUs, 512 MB, AWS only; plus $0.10/GB storage
- Not intended for production, per the docs
- No PgBouncer, high availability or SLA
- Up to 100 GB of storage
- Backups and data transfer included
- PlanetScaleLowest priceSingle node$5/moPS-5 (1/16 vCPU, 512 MiB) in us-east-1; $10 for PS-10 (1 GiB, arm64)
- 10 GB storage included
- Backups every 12 hours, up to 2× disk included
- For development and low-traffic production
- Standard support
Prices as listed on each pricing page, in USD per month, excluding tax. Observed: Crunchy Bridge 2026-10-15, PlanetScale 2026-10-15.
Which one fits
- If you need to start today without a sales call
- PlanetScaleSelf-serve sign-up; the highest score of the 2 self-serve products here (6.7/10).
- Lowest starter price
- PlanetScale$5/mo for the Base (single node PS-5) plan.
- Highest overall score
- PlanetScale6.7/10 (Good). The review shows the score breakdown and the run behind it.
Picked by fixed rules from the table above, not by hand. How we score
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