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The cheapest production-HA Postgres — after the disqualifications
The sticker-cheapest managed Postgres for a production HA workload can't run it: it fails HIPAA or ships PITR only as an add-on. Here's the cheapest provider that actually clears the HA + PITR + HIPAA bar — itemized and sourced.
Decision guide · 17 providers · us-east list, itemized · snapshot 2026-10-18 · open under CC-BY-4.0 · provenance record →
The ranking
Production HA — cheapest first, disqualifications shown
100 GB · 4 vCPU · 100% duty · HA required. A provider that can't meet the workload's required capabilities is struck through — cheaper doesn't count if it can't run the job.
| Provider | Total / mo | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Xata serverless | $166 | excluded — HA not offered at list price; PITR window not published; HIPAA not at list price |
| Ubicloud PostgreSQL flat-tier | $312 | excluded — no HIPAA |
| TigerData (ex-Timescale) flat-tier | $418 | excluded — HIPAA not at list price |
| Google Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL) cheapest that qualifies provisioned | $434 | qualifies |
| Supabase bundled-dx | $459 | excluded — no automatic failover; PITR add-on only; HIPAA not at list price |
| Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL provisioned | $514 | qualifies |
| DigitalOcean Managed Postgres flat-tier | $543 | excluded — no HIPAA |
| Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Flexible Server) provisioned | $546 | qualifies |
| Crunchy Bridge provisioned | $580 | excluded — PITR window not published |
| PlanetScale Postgres flat-tier | $606 | excluded — HIPAA not at list price |
| Neon serverless | $674 | qualifies |
| Heroku Postgres flat-tier | $750 | excluded — HIPAA not at list price |
| Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL) provisioned | $819 | qualifies |
| Fly.io Managed Postgres flat-tier | $990 | excluded — PITR window not published; HIPAA not at list price |
| Render Postgres flat-tier | $1,051 | qualifies |
| Databricks Lakebase serverless | $1,314 | excluded — HIPAA not at list price |
| Aurora Serverless v2 (PostgreSQL) serverless | $1,394 | qualifies |
The cheapest listing (Xata, $166) is excluded — HA not offered at list price; PITR window not published; HIPAA not at list price. The cheapest that actually qualifies is Google Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL) at $434, 161% above the disqualified leader.
Verdict: for regulated production HA, the cheapest Postgres that can actually run the workload is Google Cloud SQL, with Amazon RDS about 18% behind. The cheapest rows overall all fail at least one requirement, and several popular independent services are among them.
Why the cheap rows are disqualified
This workload needs three things at once: automatic failover if a data-center zone goes down, point-in-time recovery of at least a week, and HIPAA eligibility on the plan you’re paying for. Miss one and the price doesn’t matter.
The lowest total belongs to Xata, which doesn’t list HA on its managed pricing and offers a BAA only for bring-your-own-cloud deployments. Ubicloud has no HIPAA offering. TigerData’s HIPAA support is Enterprise-only, at a price it doesn’t publish. Supabase sells point-in-time recovery as an add-on, offers HIPAA only on its Team plan, and has no automatic failover on Pro. DigitalOcean’s managed databases aren’t on its HIPAA-covered product list. PlanetScale will sign a BAA only with Business support, Enterprise or startup pricing. Heroku’s HIPAA plans are limited to Teams and Enterprise customers, and Databricks Lakebase needs an enterprise security add-on. Crunchy Bridge and Fly.io don’t publish how many days of point-in-time recovery they keep.
The real floor
Set those aside and Cloud SQL is cheapest, then RDS and Azure, all on standard on-demand pricing. Aurora costs nearly twice what Cloud SQL does here, because its instance classes pair 8 GB of memory with each vCPU, so a 4-vCPU need buys a 32 GB instance, and its HA reader is a second one.
Neon qualifies differently. It keeps no standby server: data is replicated across three zones, and if a zone fails, the database restarts elsewhere, which Neon says takes one to ten minutes. That makes its HA free, but HIPAA requires the Scale plan at about double Neon’s usual compute rate, so it lands mid-table. Whether a restart of up to ten minutes is acceptable is a question about your application, not your bill.
What this means
- Don’t shop this workload on price alone. The cheapest rows fail a hard requirement.
- Cloud SQL or RDS is the pick for regulated HA on price. If you’re already on one cloud, the gap is small enough that the cloud you use should decide.
- Check how failover works, not just whether it exists. A running standby and a restart are both “HA” on a pricing page; they behave differently when a zone fails.
If your production isn’t regulated, the disqualifications lift and the cheaper independent services are back on the table. State your requirements first, then read the price.
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