PostgreSQL Hosting: Best Providers & How to Choose

Types of PostgreSQL hosting

PostgreSQL hosting means running a PostgreSQL server somewhere other than your own laptop, with someone (you or a provider) responsible for keeping it up, patched and backed up. There are five common kinds:

• Hyperscaler managed services: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Aurora, Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and AlloyDB. Deep integration with the cloud's networking, identity and monitoring.
• Developer platforms: Neon (serverless Postgres with branching) and Supabase (Postgres plus auth, storage and APIs). Fast to start, usage or plan pricing, generous free tiers.
• Specialist managed hosts: DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL, Aiven for PostgreSQL and Crunchy Bridge. Managed Postgres with simpler pricing, some across several clouds.
• VPS or self-hosted: you install PostgreSQL on a virtual server and run it yourself. Cheapest in cash, most expensive in time.
• Shared web hosting: rarely offers PostgreSQL at all (see below).

If you are new to the wider topic, our cloud PostgreSQL guide maps every PostgreSQL service on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

Best PostgreSQL hosting providers compared

The providers below are the ones most teams shortlist. The table is not a ranking; the right one depends on where your application runs and what you need around the database.

Hosted Postgres on the big clouds

Choose RDS, Cloud SQL or Azure flexible server when your application already runs on that cloud. They run community PostgreSQL, support PostgreSQL 18, and offer standby-based high availability across zones. Aurora and AlloyDB are the premium options when you need more replicas or, on AlloyDB, analytics on live data. Our managed PostgreSQL comparison covers version lag, HA, pooling and a priced example for each.

Developer platforms: Neon and Supabase

Neon separates storage and compute so databases autoscale, scale to zero and branch with their data; read our Neon review. Supabase gives each project a dedicated Postgres instance plus auth, file storage, realtime and an auto-generated API; read our Supabase review, or the head-to-head Supabase vs Neon. For the scale-to-zero model in general, see serverless PostgreSQL.

Specialist hosts: DigitalOcean, Aiven, Crunchy Bridge

DigitalOcean offers single node and highly available clusters with daily backups and seven days of point-in-time restore; note its October and November 2026 plan changes for Standard Edition clusters. Aiven runs PostgreSQL across the major clouds with all-inclusive plans that cover the virtual machine, network and backups. Crunchy Bridge, from Crunchy Data, runs on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and its prices include infrastructure, backups and data transfer.

Web hosting with PostgreSQL (and Hostinger)

If you are looking for website hosting with PostgreSQL on a typical shared hosting plan, expect MySQL or MariaDB instead. Shared plans run many customers on one server with restricted permissions, which suits MySQL but not a separate PostgreSQL server per customer.

Hostinger PostgreSQL is a good example: Hostinger's help centre states that PostgreSQL needs more resources, memory or permissions than its Web and Cloud hosting plans provide, so it is supported on VPS hosting instead, where Hostinger offers a one-click PostgreSQL install. On a VPS you are the database administrator: you configure backups, security updates, monitoring and failover yourself.

For a website, a common and simpler pattern is to keep the site on your web host and point it at a managed PostgreSQL database elsewhere, choosing a region close to the web server to keep latency down.

Production checklist for PostgreSQL hosting

Whichever host you choose, check these points before you put production data on it:

• Backups and point-in-time recovery (PITR): how often, how long kept, and whether PITR is included or an add-on. Supabase includes 7 days of daily backups on Pro, with PITR as a paid add-on; DigitalOcean keeps seven days of PITR; Neon's restore window depends on plan.
• High availability: is there a standby in another zone, and what is the SLA? Free and the smallest shared-core tiers generally have none.
• Extensions: confirm every extension you use (pgvector, PostGIS, TimescaleDB, pg_cron) is on the provider's allow-list, at a version you can work with.
• Connection pooling: is PgBouncer or an equivalent built in, and on which tiers? It matters for serverless functions and busy web apps.
• Versions and upgrades: which PostgreSQL majors are supported, how fast new ones arrive, and whether old ones incur extended-support fees.
• Region and data residency: can you choose a region near your users, and is the region fixed once created?
• Access: do you get superuser, or a restricted admin role? Managed services usually give a restricted admin role instead of a true superuser; Neon, for example, provides neon_superuser.
• Exit route: can you run pg_dump and set up logical replication to leave?

Our lessons on SQL indexes and transactions and concurrency cover the database-side work that hosting does not do for you.

How to choose PostgreSQL hosting

• Learning or a side project: a free plan from Neon, Supabase or Aiven; see free PostgreSQL hosting for their limits.
• A production app already on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud: that cloud's managed PostgreSQL.
• An app that needs users, files and realtime without a custom backend: Supabase.
• Many small or mostly idle databases, or a database per pull request: Neon.
• Simple, predictable monthly pricing outside the hyperscalers: DigitalOcean, Aiven or Crunchy Bridge.
• Full control and the skills to run it: PostgreSQL on a VPS.

For hosting other engines too, see our general Supabase alternatives list and the related guides below.

Pricing

Prices from the provider's official pricing pages, checked 8 October 2026, region Azure: East US (pricing page default); Cloud SQL: Iowa (us-central1); other providers publish one list price, in USD, excluding tax. List prices only; discounts, commitments and your actual usage change the bill.

These are the entry prices for cheap Postgres hosting on each platform, for a single small database. They are not like-for-like: the cheapest tiers often use shared or burstable CPU and usually have no high availability. Storage, backups beyond any included amount and network transfer can add to the bill.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Hostinger: Which databases and data tools are supported
• Hostinger: PostgreSQL VPS hosting
• AWS Free Tier with Amazon Aurora and RDS
• Amazon RDS User Guide: Multi-AZ deployments
• Amazon Aurora pricing
• Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: editions
• Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: free trial instance
• Cloud SQL pricing
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server overview
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL pricing
• Neon pricing
• Neon docs: Neon and Lakebase
• Neon docs: Postgres compatibility
• Supabase pricing
• Supabase docs: Backups
• DigitalOcean docs: PostgreSQL pricing
• DigitalOcean docs: PostgreSQL features
• Aiven for PostgreSQL
• Aiven docs: Service pricing
• Aiven pricing
• RDS for PostgreSQL release calendar
• Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: database versions
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL: supported versions
• Crunchy Bridge documentation
• Crunchy Data pricing

Checked 8 October 2026.

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