ScaleGrid alternatives
Every managed databases provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers ScaleGrid's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from ScaleGrid's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- SupabaseFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
- Neonvs ScaleGridFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
- Aivenvs ScaleGridKind of free offer: Always free vs Free trial
- TigerDatavs ScaleGridKind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
- Tursovs ScaleGridFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
- Prisma Postgresvs ScaleGridFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Always free vs Free trial
- FirebaseFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
- Amazon Auroravs ScaleGridKind of free offer: Introductory free tier vs Free trial
- Amazon RDSvs ScaleGridKind of free offer: Introductory free tier vs Free trial · When the free offer ends: 6 months from account creation. vs 7 days.
- Nilevs ScaleGridKind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
- PlanetScalevs ScaleGridEntry 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…
- Neo4jFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
Where ScaleGrid stands against these 13
ScaleGrid'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
- 7 days3rd highest of the 3 that document it. Highest: Amazon Aurora — 6 months after the account is opened, or when the credits run out — whichever comes first.
- Entry paid plan
- Dedicated Hosting starts at $10/month for Redis; $13/month PostgreSQL, $18/month MongoDB, $23/month MySQL…Joint 5th cheapest of the 9 that document it. Cheapest: Turso — $4.99/month for Developer, the cheapest paid plan.
- Storage (entry plan)
- 18 GB storage on NANO, the entry row of the pricing calculator for PostgreSQL on DigitalOcean (1 core, 1 GB…Highest of the 5 that document it. Next: Turso — 9 GB on Developer, then $0.75 per GB.
- Point-in-time recovery
- PostgreSQL PITR: backups every 10 minutes by default, transaction logs retained 7 days; supported on Azure…Joint 2nd highest of the 5 that document it. Highest: Turso — 10 days on Developer. 1 day on the free plan, 30 days on Scaler and 90 days on Pro.
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.