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Best free services for PostgreSQL databases

Best free services for PostgreSQL databases

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Here is a list of the best free PostgreSQL database hosting services. These platforms offer free plans ideal for small projects, prototypes or development environments.

[NeonDB](https://neon.com/)

One of the best options currently available with a very generous free plan, great machine resources and good storage for small or personal projects. Personally I build my university projects here.

NeonDB homepage

Item Capacity
Projects 10
Compute Hours 190
CPUs 2
RAM 8GB
Storage 0.5GB

Advantages

  • Integrated web client to manage databases.
  • Excellent metrics dashboard (shows up to 14 days of history in the free plan), including queries history.
  • SQL editor to make queries directly from the browser.

[Render](https://render.com/)

A very simple alternative to get started, with a free functional layer for testing or basic development environments.

Render homepage

Item Capacity
CPU per VM 0.1
Connections limit 100
RAM 256MB
Storage 1GB

Advantages

  • Access to database logs.
  • Detailed metrics on RAM, storage, CPU usage, among others.

[Aiven](https://aiven.io/postgresql)

Aiven offers a free plan for PostgreSQL databases, you will have an exclusive virtual machine without sharing resources and has a very simple but limited interface compared to the previous options.

Aiven homepage

Item Capacity
VMs dedicated 1
CPU per VM 1
RAM per VM 1
Storage 1GB
Connections limit 20

Advantages

  • Metrics panel, you can filter the data up to 1 year ago.
  • Panel of the database logs.
  • Shows the list of queries performed.
  • Performs automatic backups.

From my experience using all these services, I can say that the best option is undoubtedly NeonDB, it is the one with the best resources, faster and more stable. And it also has a great graphical interface, you can access the logs and manage the database tables.

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