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You pay for what runs: $0.09 per compute hour and $0.25 per GB-month of storage, with reads served from the nearest of 34 regions at no extra cost. The free tier covers one database and 3 GB. See pricing.
Postgres 17, with 16 supported until November 2027. Extensions such as pgvector, PostGIS and pg_trgm are one command away.
Your primary stays in the region you pick: Frankfurt, London, Washington, Singapore or São Paulo. Read replicas copy it only to the regions you turn on, and EU-only placement is one setting.
Backups run continuously, with point-in-time recovery to any second of the last 7 days (30 on Pro), stored encrypted in a second region.
Any time. It is plain Postgres, so pg_dump works as usual, and the dashboard downloads a full snapshot. Exports are never charged for egress.
Invite your team as Owner, Developer or Read-only. Seats are free: you only pay for the databases you run.
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