# 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.

## iScore

67 / 100 (80% interval 61–73), rank 12 of 14 in databases — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Read this score with care:
- Price is thin: 1 of 6 criteria are scored, so it sits near the category middle with a wide interval (56–81). Read the interval, not the point.
- Capacity and limits is thin: 2 of 7 criteria are scored, so it sits near the category middle with a wide interval (42–55). Read the interval, not the point.
- Trust and compliance is thin: 3 of 13 criteria are scored, so it sits near the category middle with a wide interval (74–86). Read the interval, not the point.
- Adoption is thin: 0 of 1 criteria are scored, so it sits near the category middle with a wide interval (8–99). Read the interval, not the point.
- Documented but not scored, because the page states it as text with no comparable number or a yes/limited/no (a one-time, usage-based or other-vendor price, or a per-site choice): pitr_window, read_replicas. Read them on the provider page; the score neither rewards nor penalises what it could not compare.

Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every databases peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/databases/crunchy-bridge/alternatives/

- Price: 68 (56–81), weight 25%, 1 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: egress_overage_price, free_card_required, free_expires, free_offer_type, free_tier
- Capacity and limits: 48 (42–55), weight 20%, 2 of 7 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: entry_plan_memory, entry_plan_storage, max_connections, pitr_window, read_replicas
- Capabilities: 75 (69–82), weight 20%, 3 of 5 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: backtrack, scale_to_zero
- Trust and compliance: 80 (74–86), weight 15%, 3 of 13 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: audit_logs, customer_managed_keys, dedicated_infrastructure, encryption_at_rest, gdpr_data_residency, iso27001, pci_dss, private_networking, rbac, uptime_sla
- Evidence: 76 (76–76), weight 10%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Adoption: 53 (8–99), weight 10%, 0 of 1 criteria scored

## 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)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: Standard support, included at no cost for any team with at least one cluster. Premium and Business are per-team add-ons at an additional monthly fee. ([source](https://docs.crunchybridge.com/concepts/support), read 2026-09-14)
- Response time commitment: None on the included Standard level: urgent-severity tickets cannot be opened and no response SLAs apply. Response SLAs are what the paid Premium and Business levels buy. ([source](https://docs.crunchybridge.com/concepts/support), read 2026-09-14)

### Compliance

- SOC 2: Crunchy Data has a SOC 2 Type 2 report for Crunchy Bridge. ([source](https://www.crunchydata.com/security), read 2026-09-21)

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