The cheapest managed Postgres with a standby.
Prices checked
Akamai Cloud (Linode) G6 Dedicated leads 34 databases at $285 a month, checked .
Top 10
all 811 prices- 1
G6 Dedicated
Akamai Cloud (Linode) · 8 GB · 2 nodes · 130 GB disk$285/mo - 2
G6 Shared
Akamai Cloud (Linode) · 1 GB · 3 nodes · 9 GB disk$37/mo - 3
Metal M-10 arm64
PlanetScale · 1 GB · 3 nodes · 10 GB disk$50/mo - 4
G6 Shared
Akamai Cloud (Linode) · 2 GB · 3 nodes · 30 GB disk$74/mo - 5
Small
Civo · 4 GB · 2 nodes · 40 GB disk$76.04/mo - 6
Metal M-20 arm64
PlanetScale · 2 GB · 3 nodes · 10 GB disk$80/mo - 7
Basic
DigitalOcean · 2 GB · 3 nodes · 30 GB disk$91.35/mo - 8
Basic
DigitalOcean · 4 GB · 2 nodes · 60 GB disk$121.80/mo - 9
G6 Dedicated
Akamai Cloud (Linode) · 4 GB · 2 nodes · 58 GB disk$143/mo - 10
Metal M-40 arm64
PlanetScale · 4 GB · 3 nodes · 10 GB disk$150/mo
How we count
The floor is two nodes or more, so the price buys a primary and at least one standby that takes over when it fails, at 1 GB of RAM per node or more. 34 databases clear it, from $285/mo. Across sizes the cheapest standby pair costs 140% more than the cheapest single node of the same size. A price is what one month costs, in the provider's own currency converted to dollars, excluding tax. Disk beyond the included size, backups and transfer are billed on top wherever the provider says so, and the provider's page carries those rates.
Frequently asked
- What is the cheapest of the Postgres databases with a standby right now?
- Akamai Cloud (Linode) G6 Dedicated, $285 a month. Read on 21 Oct 2026.
- Which provider shows up most in this ranking?
- Akamai Cloud (Linode) holds 4 of the top 10 places. A provider counts once per size, at its cheapest database there.
- What does the price cover?
- One month of every node the row names, with the disk it states, in the provider's own currency converted to dollars, excluding tax. Disk beyond that, backups and transfer are billed on top wherever the provider says so, and each provider's page carries those rates.
- How is this ranked, and how current is it?
- Prices are read every morning from 14 providers' own price lists and APIs, and this list recomputes with them. A price read for the first time, or held while a second reading checks it, says so on its row and gives first place to a price that is confirmed or a week old whenever the list has one. Last refresh: 21 Oct 2026.