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Prisma Postgres alternatives

Managed databases · 13 alternatives · Prisma Postgres iScore 68 (#6/14)

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

Ranked by iScore
  1. SupabaseKind of free offer: Free tier vs Always free · Engine: PostgreSQL vs PostgreSQL.72#1/14
  2. NeonKind of free offer: Free tier vs Always free · Engine: PostgreSQL vs PostgreSQL.69#2/14
  3. AivenEntry paid plan: $5 a month for Developer — one VM, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage, with no choice of cloud…69#3/14
  4. TigerDataKind of free offer: Free tier vs Always free69#4/14
  5. TursoKind of free offer: Free tier vs Always free69#5/14
  6. FirebaseKind of free offer: Free tier vs Always free68#7/14
  7. Amazon AuroraKind of free offer: Introductory free tier vs Always free68#8/14
  8. Amazon RDSKind of free offer: Introductory free tier vs Always free67#9/14
  9. NileKind of free offer: Free tier vs Always free67#10/14
  10. PlanetScaleEntry paid plan: $5/month for a single-node Postgres database on network-attached storage; PlanetScale Met…67#11/14
  11. Crunchy BridgeEntry paid plan: $9 a month for Hobby-0 — 2 cores, 512 MB, AWS only. Crunchy says the Hobby tier runs on l…67#12/14
  12. ScaleGridFree tier: No vs Yes · Kind of free offer: Free trial vs Always free67#13/14
  13. Neo4jKind of free offer: Free tier vs Always free64#14/14

Where Prisma Postgres stands against these 13

Prisma Postgres'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
Yes. 8 of the 12 alternatives that document it have one: Aiven, Firebase, Neo4j, Neon, Nile, Supabase and 2 more.
Entry paid plan
$10/month for StarterJoint 5th cheapest of the 9 that document it. Cheapest: Turso — $4.99/month for Developer, the cheapest paid plan.
Connection limit
100 pooled connections on Starter and 10 direct; 10 pooled on Free, 500 on Pro and 1,000 on BusinessJoint 3rd highest of the 5 that document it. Highest: Nile — 10,000 connections on Pro, with connection pooling included.
Backup retention
Daily backups with 7-day retention on Starter and Pro, 30 days on BusinessJoint 2nd highest of the 6 that document it. Highest: Crunchy Bridge — 10 days, included in the cluster price rather than sold as a tier, and extendable by configuring additional…

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