Ask HN: Is there any great free PostgreSQL provider?

9 points by zccm ↗ HN
I've been looking for one for quite a long time, but none of them fit my demands. MySQL is also fine.

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Digital Ocean has managed Postgres for $15. I wouldn’t in my wildest fantasies trust a free Postgres provider.
Their managed databases aren't that great unless you're willing to spend $100+/month. The cheap $15 instances are single threaded on oversubscribed hardware. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're okay with queries taking a long time. (Like over a minute when it gets really bad)
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It would be interesting to know which providers' free tiers you've tried any why they didn't fit your needs.
Supabase if you was a managed solution. Great free tier IMO.
Supabase provides a free tier Postgres. There are of course limits to the size, and they will pause your project if it is inactive for 7 days.

https://supabase.com/pricing

There's ElephantSQL, which offers a free tier: https://www.elephantsql.com/
Can confirm. I use most of the main platforms but given the price, ElephantSQL has been rock solid for a small side project I have. If you don't need to store a lot of data, you can use it totally free, though I did have to manually vacuum to keep the usage down for some reason.
Wow, no mention of Railway yet. They don't really advertise it, they allow you to create a Postgres DB as a part of a project and expose it publicly. It's pay as you go and in my tests I haven't been able to scratch the 5$ minimum.

Fly has apparently also recently added this: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DAlperin

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