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Aiven vs Prisma Postgres

A sourced, side-by-side comparison for managed postgres. Aiven has the lower entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.

Aiven has the lower entry price — Aiven starts at $0/mo, Prisma Postgres at $0/mo. Free tier: Aiven Yes, Prisma Postgres Yes. HIPAA: Aiven Yes, Prisma Postgres Yes.

As of 2026-11-01 · figures link to their source below

Side by side

Aiven

$0/mo entry
Entry price$0/mo (Free)
Free tierYes
HIPAA (BAA)Yes
SOC 2Yes
GDPRYes
Best forEnterprises needing multi-cloud Postgres with strong compliance (HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2)

Prisma Postgres

$0/mo entry
Entry price$0/mo (Free)
Free tierYes
HIPAA (BAA)Yes
SOC 2Yes
GDPRYes
Best forTypeScript teams wanting Postgres and compute together

Sources — Aiven: aiven.io (verified 2026-11-01) · Prisma Postgres: prisma.io (verified 2026-11-01)

Key features

Aiven: Dedicated VMs with no multi-tenancy — full isolation per customer; Deploy across AWS, GCP, Azure in same console; multi-cloud by design; 50+ supported extensions including pgvector, PostGIS, TimescaleDB; HIPAA compliant since 2018; ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 (ISAE 3000 Type 2), PCI DSS; VPC peering and PrivateLink support for private network connectivity

Prisma Postgres: Serverless Postgres billed per operation; Signed BAA on Business; Compute and database on one bill

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