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Managed PostgreSQL · by Ubicloud

Ubicloud Managed PostgreSQL

Managed PostgreSQL on local NVMe disks from an open-source cloud platform, run on Hetzner, Leaseweb, AWS or Google Cloud at prices well below RDS.

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Overview

Ubicloud builds an open-source cloud platform that runs on rented bare metal, mainly Hetzner in Germany and Leaseweb in the US, and more recently on AWS and Google Cloud. Its managed PostgreSQL is the main database product: the database and its disk sit on the same host with local NVMe, which avoids the per-IOPS charges of network storage. The founding team built Citus Data and early Heroku Postgres.

There are two families. Hobby instances use shared, burstable CPUs and start at $19.54/mo for 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM and 16 GB. Standard instances have dedicated CPU and start at $78/mo for 2 vCPU, 8 GB and 64 GB, doubling in price with each size up to 60 vCPU. You choose 0, 1 or 2 standbys for high availability, and read replicas can be added and promoted.

Everything is available from a console, a CLI (`ubi pg ...`) and an API, and you get the real postgres superuser role, 86 supported extensions, 386 tunable parameters on PostgreSQL 18, Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry log shipping. Backups are kept 7 days with restore to any minute into a new instance. There is no free tier and no scale-to-zero, so it fits steady workloads more than side projects.

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Pricing and plans

Plan Price What you get
hobby-1 $19.54/mo 1 shared vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 16 GB storage
hobby-2 $39.08/mo 2 shared vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 32 GB storage
standard-2 $78/mo 2 dedicated vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 64 GB local NVMe
standard-4 $156/mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 128 GB
standard-8 $313/mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, 256 GB
standard-16 $625/mo 16 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, 512 GB
standard-30 / standard-60 $1,180 / $2,361 per mo 30 or 60 vCPU, up to 240 GB RAM and 2 TB

Prices are the vendor's Germany (Hetzner) list prices, billed per minute at month end; the vendor says US region prices are now comparable. Extra storage costs more (rate chosen in the portal, not listed). HA standbys are extra servers; their price is not stated separately on the pricing page. Prices on AWS and Google Cloud are shown only through a calculator, not a list. There is no free database tier; the only free allowance on the pricing page is a GitHub Actions runner credit. The vendor's own site states no compliance certifications on the pages read. The control plane is open source and can be self-hosted.

Source: www.ubicloud.com/docs/about/pricing · prices as published, excluding tax.

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What it does

Local NVMe storage
Postgres runs on the same host as its disk, so there is no separate IOPS meter; the vendor publishes TPC-C benchmarks against RDS and Aurora.
High availability
Choose 0, 1 or 2 standbys; failover fences the old primary and promotes the most up-to-date standby, and a recycle endpoint rehearses failover.
Point-in-time restore
Backups kept 7 days; restore any minute as a new instance to inspect before cutting over.
Superuser access
You hold the postgres superuser role, with 86 extensions and validated config for PostgreSQL and PgBouncer.
Observability
Built-in metrics, Prometheus remote-write, 7 days of searchable logs and OpenTelemetry log export.
Open-source control plane
The same software can be run yourself on your own bare-metal servers.
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Strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Low list prices for dedicated-CPU Postgres compared with the hyperscalers
  • No IOPS charges thanks to local NVMe
  • Superuser access and wide configuration control
  • EU hosting in Germany on Hetzner
  • Open source and self-hostable, so there is an exit path

Limitations

  • No free tier and no scale-to-zero; the cheapest database is $19.54/mo
  • Backups retained only 7 days
  • Asynchronous replication can lose the last moments before a failure unless two standbys run in synchronous quorum
  • No packaged zero-downtime migration service; migrations use standard Postgres methods with engineering help
  • Few locations: Germany, US and whatever AWS or GCP regions are offered
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Who it suits

Good for

  • Production Postgres with steady load where cost matters
  • Teams leaving RDS because of IOPS bills
  • EU-based apps that want Hetzner pricing with managed operations

Look elsewhere if

  • Hobby projects that need a free database
  • Spiky workloads that benefit from scale-to-zero
  • Teams that need stated compliance certifications
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Alternatives to Ubicloud Managed PostgreSQL

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Stackhero Managed open-source databases and services
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$25/mo Free tier
Supabase Managed Postgres backend platform
$25/mo Free tier
Nhost Postgres + GraphQL backend platform
$25/mo Free tier
DigitalOcean Managed Databases Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Valkey, Kafka and OpenSearch
$15.15/mo Paid
Scaleway Managed Databases Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL and serverless Postgres
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Questions

How much does Ubicloud Postgres cost?

Hobby instances start at $19.54/mo (1 shared vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 16 GB). Dedicated standard instances start at $78/mo for 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM and 64 GB, billed per minute.

Does Ubicloud have a free PostgreSQL tier?

No. There is no free database plan; billing is per minute from the first instance.

Is Ubicloud open source?

Yes. The Ubicloud control plane is open source and can be self-hosted on bare-metal servers.

Where does Ubicloud run?

On Hetzner in Germany, Leaseweb in the US, and on AWS and Google Cloud.

How long are Ubicloud backups kept?

Seven days, and you can restore to any minute in that window as a new instance.

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