What is the cheapest managed MySQL?

Aiven Developer-1, $5.11 a month for 1 GB of RAM on a single node, checked 21 Oct 2026. With a standby, the cheapest is Akamai Cloud (Linode) at $37 a month.

How much more does a MySQL with a standby cost?

A standby is a second copy of the database on its own node, which takes over if the first fails, and you pay for both. Size for size, the cheapest standby pair here costs about 48% more than the cheapest single node. Each size's page lists both.

What does the monthly price include?

The nodes and the disk the row states, for a month, excluding tax. Disk beyond that, backups beyond the allowance and outbound transfer are billed on top wherever the provider says so, and each provider's page carries those rates.

How current are these prices?

They are read every day from each provider's own price list or API; the readings on this page are from 21 Oct 2026.

Managed MySQL pricing.

Prices checked 21 Oct

257 MySQL prices from 6 providers, from $5.11 a month for 1 GB on a single node at Aiven, checked 21 Oct.

The cheapest MySQL at each size

every database

The cheapest paid database with that much RAM per node, a month. Open a size for every provider's.

1
MySQL 1 GB
Aiven · Developer-1 · 1 vCPU · 8 GB disk
$5.11/mo
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2
MySQL 2 GB
DigitalOcean · Basic · 1 vCPU · 30 GB disk
$30.45/mo
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3
MySQL 4 GB
DigitalOcean · Basic · 2 vCPU · 60 GB disk
$60.90/mo
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4
MySQL 8 GB
DigitalOcean · Basic Premium AMD · 2 vCPU · 90 GB disk
$101.35/mo
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5
MySQL 16 GB
DigitalOcean · General Purpose · 4 vCPU · 90 GB disk
$231.35/mo
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6
MySQL 32 GB
DigitalOcean · Advanced Storage Optimized · 4 vCPU · 200 GB disk
$383/mo
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7
MySQL 64 GB
DigitalOcean · Advanced Storage Optimized · 8 vCPU · 400 GB disk
$766/mo
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Who sells managed MySQL

How we count

The other relational default, priced the same way as Postgres. A size is the RAM per node, counted as 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 or 64 GB when it is within a quarter of it; a node between two of them is on the browse page. Each row here is the cheapest paid MySQL of its size.

A single node is one server. A database with a standby is two nodes or more, a primary and the copies that take over if it fails, and the price on the row is for all of them, so the two are never in one list. The typical single node costs $15.75/GB RAM a month.

Frequently asked

What is the cheapest managed MySQL?: Aiven Developer-1, $5.11 a month for 1 GB of RAM on a single node, checked 21 Oct 2026. With a standby, the cheapest is Akamai Cloud (Linode) at $37 a month.
How much more does a MySQL with a standby cost?: A standby is a second copy of the database on its own node, which takes over if the first fails, and you pay for both. Size for size, the cheapest standby pair here costs about 48% more than the cheapest single node. Each size's page lists both.
What does the monthly price include?: The nodes and the disk the row states, for a month, excluding tax. Disk beyond that, backups beyond the allowance and outbound transfer are billed on top wherever the provider says so, and each provider's page carries those rates.
How current are these prices?: They are read every day from each provider's own price list or API; the readings on this page are from 21 Oct 2026.

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