Amazon RDS alternatives
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.
- SupabaseKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
- NeonKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
- Aivenvs Amazon RDSKind of free offer: Always free vs Introductory free tier
- TigerDatavs Amazon RDSKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
- TursoKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
- Prisma Postgresvs Amazon RDSKind of free offer: Always free vs Introductory free tier
- FirebaseKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
- Amazon Auroravs Amazon RDSEntry paid plan: No plan fee and no minimum commitment — Aurora charges for what you use. AWS's own worked…
- Nilevs Amazon RDSKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
- PlanetScalevs Amazon RDSEntry 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 RDSKind of free offer: Free trial vs Introductory free tier · When the free offer ends: 7 days. vs 6 months from account creation.
- Neo4jKind of free offer: Free tier vs Introductory free tier
Where Amazon RDS stands against these 13
Amazon RDS'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 from account creationJoint highest of the 3 that document it. Level with: Amazon Aurora — 6 months after the account is opened, or when the credits run out — whichever comes first.
- Regions
- 39 geographic regions and 124 Availability Zones across the AWS Cloud — AWS-wide footprint; the RDS User…2nd 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
- 99.95% for a Multi-AZ DB instance or cluster; 99.5% for a single DB instance, which is what you get without…4th 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.