Reliable from day one
Every HA plan includes one primary and two replicas across failure domains, automated failover, continuous archiving, and scheduled restore drills.
Startups
Database infrastructure for the company you're building.
CheapDB gives small teams one primary, two replicas, automated failover, and transparent resource pricing from the first production cluster.
Why CheapDB
Sized for today and ready for growth.
A bill you can read
Resource-based hourly pricing maps each line item to compute, memory, storage, replicas, backup retention, or network use. Activity within provisioned capacity shares the cluster rate.
Scale in place
Start on a small Postgres cluster or unsharded Vitess keyspace. Online resize and resharding workflows preserve the same provider, console, and operating model as you grow.
Focus on the product
Managed backups, failover drills, query insights, and schema workflows give a small engineering team a complete database operating surface.
Choose your engine
Start with Postgres. Add Vitess when scale requires it.
Most startups should start with Postgres: it is the default of the modern stack and our clusters make it hard to lose data. If you know you are building for MySQL scale — or migrating from it — an unsharded Vitess keyspace behaves like plain MySQL with the sharding path already built.
“Migration credits and hands-on import help are available case by case. We use your current invoice and workload profile to model the target cluster before a cutover is scheduled.”
Create your first cluster tonight.
Sign up, pick a size, and connect. Future growth follows an online resize or resharding workflow using the same application endpoints.