Heroku Postgres

DB 5.4/10

Essential-0: 1 GB storage, 20 connections, pgvector support, no row limits, 4,000 table limit. Essential-1 $9/mo (10 GB), Essential-2 $20/mo (32 GB).

Heroku Postgres scores 5.4/10 for free value in DB. The main constraint: Paid — $5/mo (Essential-0). Essential-0: 1 GB storage, 20 connections, pgvector support, no row limits, 4,000 table limit. Essential-1 $9/mo (10 GB), Essential-2 $20/mo (32 GB).

Category DB Kind Paid plan

Free value score

5.4 / 10

Show the math

Overall 5.4/10

value = 5.4/100

weighted_components_v1

Capacity 2.6/10

value = 0.06 ×

fixed_log_v1

Operations 8.2/10

value = 8.2/100

policy_score_v1

Production fit 8/10

value = 8/100

policy_score_v1

Key metrics

1 GB Storage

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.

$5/mo

1 GB

20 conn

What you get

Paid — $5/mo (Essential-0). Essential-0: 1 GB storage, 20 connections, pgvector support, no row limits, 4,000 table limit. Essential-1 $9/mo (10 GB), Essential-2 $20/mo (32 GB).

~0.2 GB per $1 at entry but jumps to ~1.6 GB/$ at Essential-2; simplest add-on Postgres, built on Amazon RDS with pgvector

Gotchas

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Sources

"Plan Essential 0 (1 GB storage) $5/mo Essential 1 (10 GB storage) $9/mo Essential 2 (32 GB storage) $20/mo"
https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql
"These plans have pgvector support, no row count limits, and come with a 32 GB option."
https://www.heroku.com/blog/heroku-postgres-essential-launch/

paid value databases

Open service Source ← All DB

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