Crunchy Bridge

DB 4.6/10

Hobby Postgres instances from $10/mo (no charge for usage of $5 or less); storage $0.10/GB-month; price includes infrastructure, backups, and data transfer. Multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/

Crunchy Bridge scores 4.6/10 for free value in DB. The main constraint: Paid — from $10/mo (Hobby). Hobby Postgres instances from $10/mo (no charge for usage of $5 or less); storage $0.10/GB-month; price includes infrastructure, backups, and data transfer. Multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Category DB Kind Paid plan

Free value score

4.6 / 10

Show the math

Overall 4.6/10

value = 4.6/100

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Capacity 1/10

value = 0 ×

fixed_log_v1

Operations 8.2/10

value = 8.2/100

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Production fit 8/10

value = 8/100

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Key metrics

0.001 GB Storage policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable included storage allowance is published in this item.

1 reads/mo Reads policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable monthly read allowance is published in this item.

1 writes/mo Writes policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable monthly write allowance is published in this item.

$10/mo

$0.10/GB

What you get

Paid — from $10/mo (Hobby). Hobby Postgres instances from $10/mo (no charge for usage of $5 or less); storage $0.10/GB-month; price includes infrastructure, backups, and data transfer. Multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Cheapest storage rate among managed Postgres at $0.10/GB-mo; all-in pricing including backups and data transfer

Gotchas

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Sources

"We're excited to announce our new hobby plans. Postgres instances now start at $10 per month. No charges for $5 or less a month."
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/making-postgres-more-afforable-new-low-cost-plans-on-crunchy-bridge
"plans starting at $10/mo. Prices include infrastructure, backups, and data transfer ... Storage costs are $0.10 per GB."
https://www.crunchydata.com/pricing

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