What is the cheapest managed database hosting in 2026?

Turso from Turso tops this ranking at $8.25/mo. The full table below shows all 11 entries with the same measure applied to each.

Why is the cheapest option not always the right one?

Because a single axis never captures the whole bill. A provider with the lowest storage rate may have the highest egress rate; a model with the cheapest input tokens may be the most expensive for agentic work. The comparison pages model both sides against identical workloads, which is the check worth doing before switching.

Cheapest managed database hosting

Managed Postgres, MySQL, Redis, and document stores ranked by entry price. The important split is not the number but the model: provisioned instances bill whether or not you query them, serverless engines scale to zero.

List prices checked May 2026

All 11, ranked

#	Name	Provider	Entry plan	Notes
1	Turso	Turso	$8.25/mo	500 databases, 9 GB of storage, and 1 billion row reads per month
2	MongoDB Atlas	MongoDB	$9.00/mo	M0 shared cluster with 512 MB, always free
3	Google Cloud SQL	Google	$9.37/mo	Managed MySQL, Postgres, and SQL Server on Google Cloud, billed per instance-hour with automatic storage growth that is easy to leave running unnoticed.
4	Upstash Redis	Upstash	$10.00/mo	500,000 commands per month
5	AWS RDS for PostgreSQL	Amazon Web Services	$12.40/mo	750 hours per month of a db.t-class instance for 12 months
6	Azure Database for PostgreSQL	Microsoft	$12.41/mo	750 hours per month of a burstable instance for 12 months
7	Scaleway Managed Database	Scaleway	$13.00/mo	EU-resident managed Postgres and MySQL with high-availability options, priced below the hyperscalers on both instance hours and storage.
8	Neon Serverless Postgres	Neon	$19.00/mo	0.5 GB of storage and 190 compute hours per month
9	Supabase	Supabase	$25.00/mo	500 MB database and 5 GB of egress per month
10	CockroachDB Cloud	Cockroach Labs	$25.00/mo	$0 basic tier with monthly request-unit and storage allowances
11	PlanetScale	PlanetScale	$39.00/mo	None; the Hobby tier was retired in April 2024

Source: Turso (May 2026) · MongoDB (May 2026) · Google (May 2026) · Upstash (May 2026) · Amazon Web Services (May 2026) · Microsoft (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

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What is the cheapest managed database hosting in 2026?: Turso from Turso tops this ranking at $8.25/mo. The full table below shows all 11 entries with the same measure applied to each.
How is this ranking calculated?: Managed Postgres, MySQL, Redis, and document stores ranked by entry price. The important split is not the number but the model: provisioned instances bill whether or not you query them, serverless engines scale to zero. Every figure is the provider's own published list price, linked in the source column and stamped with the month it was checked.
Why is the cheapest option not always the right one?: Because a single axis never captures the whole bill. A provider with the lowest storage rate may have the highest egress rate; a model with the cheapest input tokens may be the most expensive for agentic work. The comparison pages model both sides against identical workloads, which is the check worth doing before switching.

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