Hetzner was cheaper at every size I tested and I still chose managed Postgres

Twelve pricing tabs open. Neon, Hetzner, Supabase, Prisma, Scaleway, OVH.

My database is half a gigabyte. I was comparing ten-terabyte price curves.

At some point this week I typed the words "I am super lost here" about my own infrastructure. I advise companies on this exact class of decision. That sentence still came out of my hands.

If you have ever spent an evening deep in provider pricing pages for a workload that fits on a USB stick from 2009, this one is for you. All numbers below come from the live pricing pages as of July 2026. Rates move, so verify before you commit.

Three fears, all pointed at the wrong layers