Best Managed Postgres · FREE
Best free Managed Postgres (2026)
6 managed postgres that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by 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.
Key takeaways
- Cheapest: Aiven at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: Aiven, CockroachDB, Neon, Prisma Postgres, Render, Supabase.
- Data current through: 2026-11-01. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 1 of 6 rows below is marked.
Comparison
| # | Managed Postgre | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aiven | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Enterprises needing multi-cloud Postgres with strong compliance (HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2) | aiven.io |
| 2 | CockroachDB STALE · 2026-09-02 | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Global applications needing multi-region active-active Postgres-compatible SQL | cockroachlabs.com |
| 3 | Neon | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Serverless and edge workloads needing scale-to-zero Postgres | neon.com |
| 4 | Prisma Postgres | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | TypeScript teams wanting Postgres and compute together | prisma.io |
| 5 | Render | $0/mo | No | Yes | Yes | Full-stack teams wanting app hosting and Postgres on a single unified platform | render.com |
| 6 | Supabase | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Full-stack web apps wanting Postgres + auth + storage in one platform | supabase.com |