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Alternatives to Amazon RDS

Managed databases · 12 alternatives · Amazon RDS iScore 68 (#8/13)

Every managed databases provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Amazon RDS's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Amazon RDS's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.

Ranked by iScore
  1. SupabaseKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier74#1/13
  2. Amazon AuroraEntry paid plan: No plan fee and no minimum commitment — Aurora charges for what you use. AWS's own worked…71#2/13
  3. NeonKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier70#3/13
  4. TursoKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier70#4/13
  5. TigerDataKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier70#5/13
  6. AivenKind of free offer: Always free vs Introductory free tier70#6/13
  7. Prisma PostgresKind of free offer: Always free vs Introductory free tier69#7/13
  8. NileKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier68#9/13
  9. ScaleGridKind of free offer: Free trial vs Introductory free tier · When the free offer ends: 7 days. vs 6 months from account creation.68#10/13
  10. Crunchy BridgeEntry paid plan: $9 a month for Hobby-0 — 2 cores, 512 MB, AWS only. Crunchy says the Hobby tier runs on l…68#11/13
  11. PlanetScaleEntry paid plan: $5/month for a single-node Postgres database on network-attached storage; PlanetScale Met…68#12/13
  12. Neo4jKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier66#13/13

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