Visitors who say they use Heroku Postgres: none yet. Self-reported, anonymous, and never used for order.
| plan | from $/mo | billed | source | checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential-0 | $5 | gb | pricing page | 2026-10-21 |
| Essential-1 | $9 | gb | pricing page | 2026-10-21 |
| Essential-2 | $20 | gb | pricing page | 2026-10-21 |
| Standard-0 | $50 | gb | pricing page | 2026-10-21 |
| Standard-2 | $200 | gb | pricing page | 2026-10-21 |
| Premium-0 | $200 | gb | pricing page | 2026-10-21 |
Essential-0: Essential tier: 1 GB of storage, no fork or follow, no rollback, 99.5% expected uptime, no server-side connection pooling, and no published memory size. Worked out as $5 up to 1 GB.
Essential-1: Essential tier: 10 GB of storage, no fork or follow, no rollback, 99.5% expected uptime, no server-side connection pooling, and no published memory size. Worked out as $9 up to 10 GB.
Essential-2: Essential tier: 32 GB of storage, no fork or follow, no rollback, 99.5% expected uptime, no server-side connection pooling, and no published memory size. Worked out as $20 up to 32 GB.
Standard-0: Standard tier: 4 GB of memory, 64 GB of storage, 120 connections, server-side connection pooling, fork and follow, rollback up to 4 days. Worked out as $50 up to 64 GB.
Standard-2: Standard tier: 8 GB of memory, 256 GB of storage, 400 connections. Worked out as $200 up to 256 GB.
Premium-0: Premium tier: 4 GB of memory, 64 GB of storage, high availability, rollback up to 7 days. Worked out as $200 up to 64 GB.
features recorded
| feature | status | from plan | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic backups | yes | Essential-0 | Daily logical backups with Heroku PGBackups (optional but free) and physical backups for continuous protection, on every tier. |
| Connection pooling | yes | Standard-0 | Server-side connection pooling is available for Standard, Premium, Private and Shield tiers, not Essential. |
| Postgres extensions (such as pgvector) | yes | Essential-0 | Postgres extensions are a shared feature of all tiers. |
| Point-in-time restore | yes | Standard-0 | Rollback up to 4 days on Standard, 1 week on Premium; none on Essential. |
| High availability (automatic failover) | yes | Premium-0 | High availability on Premium and Advanced. |
| Database branches | partial | Standard-0 | Fork (a copy of the database) from Standard up; not an instant branch. |
| Read replicas | yes | Standard-0 | Follow (a read-only follower) from Standard up. |
| Sign-in and file storage from the same vendor | not stated | - |
limits and caveats
| limit | what the vendor says | source | checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| essential | Essential plans have no fork or follow, no rollback, 99.5% expected uptime, unannounced maintenance and no published memory size | source | 2026-10-21 |
| advanced | Heroku Postgres Advanced (from 4 GB, 100 GB of storage included, high availability) is priced per instance pool and is not read here | source | 2026-10-21 |
compare
- +Cheaper alternatives to Heroku Postgres: what each costs at every size, and what you would lose.
- +Neon alternatives: how Heroku Postgres compares.
- +Supabase alternatives: how Heroku Postgres compares.
- +All database tools, including DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL, Fly.io Managed Postgres, Neon, PlanetScale, Railway Postgres.
switches
Reported switches to Heroku Postgres from other listed tools: none yet. Self-reported by visitors, shown as a raw count, and never used for ranking.
What people said they gave up (read first, one person's view each):
proof signals
- +Part of Salesforce (copyright notice on its pricing page)
- +Plan specifications published in its Dev Center
details
- website
- www.heroku.com/postgres
- hosting
- managed
- open source
- no