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.
- Managed databases
- Not documented
- $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.
- 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.
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.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
What the documentation says.
Each value below links to the page it was read from, with the sentence it came from. Criteria Crunchy Bridge does not publish are not listed.
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.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Plans and pricing — Crunchy Bridge Documentation ↗
“In general, Hobby tier runs on lower quality underlying infrastructure, does not include PgBouncer, and is not intended for production usage. [...] Hobby-0* 2 512MB 5% 11,800 PG15-18 only ❌ ⚠️ Best effort $9.00 [...] Standard-4* 1 4GB 20,000 PG14-18 ✅ ✅ $70.00 [...] *Available on AWS only.”
Read 2026-09-09 · official docs
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.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Plans and pricing — Crunchy Bridge Documentation ↗
“Clusters are billed according to the amount of time they're provisioned in a given month, prorated to the second. While prices on this page are quoted for the cost of an entire month, you will only be billed that amount if your cluster is provisioned for the entire month. Pricing varies based on: Instance size Region Storage [...] Crunchy Bridge offers three tiers of databases -- Hobby, Standard, and Memory -- to cover a variety of use cases.”
Read 2026-09-09 · official docs
Execution
Managed connection pooling
Supported
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Connection pooling — Crunchy Bridge Documentation ↗
“Crunchy Bridge uses pgBouncer for connection pooling. By default, PgBouncer instances on Bridge are run in transaction pooling mode.”
Read 2026-09-09 · official docs
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.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Plans and pricing — Crunchy Bridge Documentation ↗
“Regions Amazon Web Services (AWS) Name Provider ID Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1 [...] US West (Oregon) us-west-2 Azure Name Provider ID Australia East (NSW) australiaeast [...] Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Name Provider ID Asia Northeast 1 (Tokyo) asia-northeast1”
Read 2026-09-09 · official docs
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.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Crunchy Bridge — Crunchy Bridge Documentation ↗
“Crunchy Bridge is a fully managed Postgres service from Crunchy Data. It takes care of running and managing Postgres so that you can stay focused on building your applications, not on keeping your database up and running. Bridge provides highly available Postgres across every major cloud provider — Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure — so regardless of where you're running, you can closely colocate your database.”
Read 2026-09-09 · official docs
Database branching
Limited — a new cluster restored from backup, to any minute in 10 days
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- Backups — Crunchy Bridge Documentation ↗
“The automated daily backups are stored along with the associated WAL and can be used to create a point-in-time recovery fork of your cluster. [...] Forking from backup You can create a new fork from any of the backups stored for your cluster by clicking the "Fork from Backup" button. This process will create a new cluster according to the options you specify, and the new cluster will be populated with the data from the backup. Info Remember, each fork will have its own unique connection string.”
Read 2026-09-09 · official docs
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.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Backups — Crunchy Bridge Documentation ↗
“kept current by streaming the WAL every 60 seconds or 16MB (whichever comes first). 10 days of these backups will be retained by the platform automatically. These backups can be used to restore a fork of your cluster to any minute in its history.”
Read 2026-09-09 · official docs
Read replicas
Supported
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- Read replicas — Crunchy Bridge Documentation ↗
“Your read replica in Crunchy Bridge is required to be the same storage size, but can be a different instance size. You can also provision read replicas across regions and infrastructure provider if you wish to have greater resilience should a specific cloud provider or region fail.”
Read 2026-09-09 · official docs
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.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Backups — Crunchy Bridge Documentation ↗
“10 days of these backups will be retained by the platform automatically. [...] By default, Crunchy Bridge automatically captures and retains the most recent 10 days' worth of backups for each cluster. That is included in the price of each cluster.”
Read 2026-09-09 · official docs
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.