Managed database prices, October 2026.
Prices checked , updated daily until the month ends
So far in October 2026 the cheapest Postgres with 4 GB of RAM is Basic at DigitalOcean for $60.90 a month, against $69 typical, checked 21 Oct.
The month so far
Typical Postgres
$273/mo
the middle paid single-node Postgres
Databases
811
from 14 providers
Prices moved
40
40 cheaper · 0 dearer · from 14 Oct
New providers
11
+254 new databases from providers already here
Free tiers
3
databases that cost nothing
Cheapest Postgres by memory
The cheapest paid single-node Postgres with at least that much RAM, and the typical price of the ones with that much. Standby pairs and the other engines are counted above, not here.
PostgreSQL, 1 GB RAM or more, single node
DB-DEV-S · 2 vCPU, 2 GB
2 vCPU · 2 GB · no disk
Scaleway
A typical 1 GB Postgres costs $17/mo, the middle of 8.
PostgreSQL, 2 GB RAM or more, single node
DB-DEV-S · 2 vCPU, 2 GB
2 vCPU · 2 GB · no disk
Scaleway
A typical 2 GB Postgres costs $30.45/mo, the middle of 11.
PostgreSQL, 4 GB RAM or more, single node
Basic · 2 vCPU, 4 GB
2 vCPU · 4 GB · 60 GB disk
DigitalOcean
A typical 4 GB Postgres costs $69/mo, the middle of 20.
PostgreSQL, 8 GB RAM or more, single node
Basic · 4 vCPU, 8 GB
4 vCPU · 8 GB · 140 GB disk
DigitalOcean
A typical 8 GB Postgres costs $129.52/mo, the middle of 27.
PostgreSQL, 16 GB RAM or more, single node
DB-GP-XS · 4 vCPU, 16 GB
4 vCPU · 16 GB · no disk
Scaleway
A typical 16 GB Postgres costs $244.35/mo, the middle of 31.
Biggest cuts
this week's changesDatabases whose monthly price ended the month somewhere other than it started, one line per provider.
Aiven · 45% cheaper · $219.73/mo $400.04/mo
11 new providers
First read in October, with the databases each had at the last refresh.
How we count
This report is rewritten by every daily refresh until October 2026 ends, and after that it is never changed. This version was written from the refresh of 21 Oct 2026.
A move is a price that ended the month somewhere other than where it started it, in the provider's own currency, so an exchange rate moving is not a move, and a price that went down and back up again is not one either.
Our price record for this section begins on 14 Oct 2026, so this month's moves and new providers are counted from that day, and a provider already here on that day did not join.
The cheapest of a tier is a price that could lead a ranking on the day: the provider shows it as available and its prices were read in the last three days.
Every price is the provider's own monthly price, excluding tax, converted to US dollars at the day's ECB rate. The typical price and the cheapest are over paid single-node Postgres of a stated size: a standby pair is a different purchase, and a typical price across Postgres, a Kafka cluster and a Valkey cache would describe none of them.
A price held by the price gate, or not yet a week old, is never called the cheapest of its month; it is counted in the typical price. The lists name each provider once.
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