Amazon Aurora alternatives
Every managed databases provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Amazon Aurora's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Amazon Aurora's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- SupabaseKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
- Neonvs Amazon AuroraKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
- Aivenvs Amazon AuroraKind of free offer: Always free vs Introductory free tier
- TigerDatavs Amazon AuroraKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
- Tursovs Amazon AuroraKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
- Prisma PostgresKind of free offer: Always free vs Introductory free tier
- FirebaseKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
- Amazon RDSvs Amazon AuroraEntry paid plan: $0.016 per DB instance-hour on-demand for db.t4g.micro, the smallest DB instance class —…
- Nilevs Amazon AuroraKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
- PlanetScaleEntry paid plan: $5/month for a single-node Postgres database on network-attached storage; PlanetScale Met…
- Crunchy BridgeEntry paid plan: $9 a month for Hobby-0 — 2 cores, 512 MB, AWS only. Crunchy says the Hobby tier runs on l…
- ScaleGridvs Amazon AuroraKind of free offer: Free trial vs Introductory free tier
- Neo4jKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
Where Amazon Aurora stands against these 13
Amazon Aurora's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- No. 9 of the 12 alternatives that document it have one: Aiven, Firebase, Neo4j, Neon, Nile, Prisma Postgres and 3 more.
- When the free offer ends
- 6 months after the account is opened, or when the credits run out — whichever comes firstJoint highest of the 3 that document it. Level with: Amazon RDS — 6 months from account creation.
- Regions
- 34 AWS regions, the same list for the MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible editions4th highest of the 9 that document it. Highest: Firebase — 43 regional locations across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and…
- Uptime SLA
- 99.99% for a cluster deployed across two or more Availability Zones; 99.9% for a single-AZ cluster3rd highest of the 4 that document it. Highest: Aiven — 99.99% from Startup ($75/month), the entry paid plan, upward.
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.
