# Crunchy Bridge

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/databases/crunchy-bridge/

Crunchy Data's fully managed Postgres service, running on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure with per-minute recovery from ten days of retained backups.

## Who it suits

Anyone who wants Postgres and nothing else, from people who work on Postgres. Ten days of per-minute recovery is included in the price of every cluster rather than sold as a tier, and replicas can sit in another region or another cloud.

Consider something else if You need a free plan to start on, or a second database engine later. This is a single-engine paid service.

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Entry paid plan: $9 a month for Hobby-0 — 2 cores, 512 MB, AWS only. Crunchy says the Hobby tier runs on lower-quality infrastructure, has no PgBouncer and is not intended for production; the first production tier is Standard-4 at $70 a month for 1 core and 4 GB. There is no free plan. ([source](https://docs.crunchybridge.com/concepts/plans-pricing), read 2026-09-09)
- Pricing model: Billed for the time a cluster is provisioned, prorated to the second, with the monthly figures on the plans page being what a full month costs. Price varies by instance size, region and storage. Three tiers — Hobby, Standard and Memory-optimized — where the tier decides IOPS, whether PgBouncer is included and what support you get, not just the size. ([source](https://docs.crunchybridge.com/concepts/plans-pricing), read 2026-09-09)

### Execution

- Managed connection pooling: Supported ([source](https://docs.crunchybridge.com/concepts/connection-pooling), read 2026-09-09)

### Infrastructure

- Regions: 37 regions across three clouds — 16 on AWS, 14 on Google Cloud, 7 on Azure — counted from the region tables on Crunchy's own plans page, which lists them and publishes no total. ([source](https://docs.crunchybridge.com/concepts/plans-pricing), read 2026-09-09)

### Data

- Engine: PostgreSQL only. Crunchy Bridge is a single-engine service — there is no MySQL or analytics product beside it in the same offering — and it runs on all three major clouds so the database can sit next to whatever else you already run. ([source](https://docs.crunchybridge.com/), read 2026-09-09)
- Database branching: Limited — a new cluster restored from backup, to any minute in 10 days ([source](https://docs.crunchybridge.com/concepts/backups), read 2026-09-09)
- Point-in-time recovery: Any minute inside the 10 days of retained backups. The WAL is streamed every 60 seconds or 16 MB, whichever comes first, and a restore produces a fork of the cluster rather than replacing it. ([source](https://docs.crunchybridge.com/concepts/backups), read 2026-09-09)
- Read replicas: Supported ([source](https://docs.crunchybridge.com/how-to/replicas), read 2026-09-09)
- Backup retention: 10 days, included in the cluster price rather than sold as a tier, and extendable by configuring additional daily, weekly, monthly and yearly backups to keep. ([source](https://docs.crunchybridge.com/concepts/backups), read 2026-09-09)

## Compared with

- [Crunchy Bridge vs Neon](https://inetgeek.com/compare/crunchy-bridge-vs-neon/)
- [Crunchy Bridge vs Aiven](https://inetgeek.com/compare/aiven-vs-crunchy-bridge/)