Aiven for PostgreSQL 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

Aiven for PostgreSQL

4.7

(71)

Pricing

Starting at $19.00 per month

About Aiven for PostgreSQL

Aiven PostgreSQL is a database-as-a-service platform that helps businesses in retail, IoT and energy sectors integrate into existing workflow and automate daily tasks including in-place data upgrades, publish/unpublish replicas and more. The centralized platform lets administrators manage data operations such as forking, pooling and restoration using PostGIS and TimescaleDB extensions.

Aiven PostgreSQL provides Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering, which lets businesses manage Aiven managed service from within Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure platforms. Users can utilize read-only replicas to streamline operations across master nodes and eliminate latency issues with remote data access.

It facilitates integration with several third-party logs, metrics, authentication and dataflow applications such as Prometheus, Datadog, Kafka MirrorMaker, Jolokia, Google OAuth SSO and more. The product is available on hourly and monthly pricing models and support is extended via documentation, live chat and other online measures.

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Aiven for PostgreSQL Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $19.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Hobbyist

$19.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

25 Connection Limit
Data Encrypted on Disk and Network
Digitalocean
Extensions (Postgis
Google
One Click Upgrades to New Major Versions
Performance Graphs
PL/V8
Real-Time Backups to a Remote Location
Upcloud

Startup

$75.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

100-1000 Connection Limit (25 GB/ RAM)
2 Days Restore to Any Point in Time (PITR)
99.99% Availability Guarantee
AWS
Azure
Connection Pooling
Database Forks
Data Encrypted on Disk and Network
Digitalocean
Extensions (Postgis

Business

$200.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

100-1000 Connection Limit (25 GB/ RAM)
14 Days Restore to Any Point in Time (PITR)
99.99% Availability Guarantee
AWS
Azure
Connection Pooling
Database Forks
Data Encrypted on Disk and Network
Digitalocean
Extensions (Postgis

Premium

$300.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

100-1000 Connection Limit (25 GB/ RAM)
30 Days Restore to Any Point in Time (PITR)
99.99% Availability Guarantee
AWS
Azure
Connection Pooling
Database Forks
Data Encrypted on Disk and Network
Digitalocean
Extensions (Postgis

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Aiven for PostgreSQL Features

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Backup and Recovery
Database Conversion
Data Connectors
Data Migration
Data Replication
Data Virtualization
Multiple Programming Languages Supported
Performance Analysis
Secure Data Storage
More features of Aiven for PostgreSQL
Access Controls/Permissions
API
Authentication
Automatic Backup
Data Dictionary Management
Data Storage Management
Mobile Access
Relational Database Management
SSL Security

Aiven for PostgreSQL Integrations

Terraform

Datadog

Aiven for PostgreSQL User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

75%

24%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.7

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.4

Tony K.

Verified reviewer

Commercial Real Estate

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Aiven provides reliable and secure services, and support has been super knowledgable.

We use Aiven Postgres to deploy new services rapidly. I like how Aiven handles changes to the deployed environment. The support team at Aiven answers questions clearly and are knowledgable.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Aiven provides premium security for all accounts, not as an add-on feature.

Cons:

The terraform plugin is not up to full feature parity, but covers most of our use cases.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Aiven is the perfect, no-lock-in DB solution

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Aiven makes it trival to move databases between cloud providers. The stickiest thing about any hyperscaler (AWS/Google/Azure) is your data - it's a PAIN to move. Aiven makes changing your cloud provider a literal point and shoot operation, something that could take weeks of planning trying to from RDS to Cloud SQL or the like.

Cons:

A little more customization in the pricing would be nice (and the ability to run within a VPC instead of having to peer VPCs), but honestly there's very little I don't like about Aiven.

Bradley H.

Verified reviewer

Sports

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2021

Bradley uses Aiven

It's okay, it doesn't fail which is great, but lacking in tools.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Console is easy to navigate. I didn't need a single tutorial to figure out what was where.

Cons:

Monitoring, Performance measuring, and optimization tools are pretty non-existent

Reasons for choosing Aiven for PostgreSQL

I didn't choose, inherited from a prior decision.

Mario C.

Telecommunications

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

Aiven is very efficent for me, because is very easy use to

the serves restores in atumatic in downtime the backup automatic facility to see the performance

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

graph of metrics query statics easy admin of users the autimatic backups and restores the upgrades of service plans is a very easy and autimatic the agents of service desk are very efficent and friendly

Cons:

can't watch logs of befores days aiven dont have a panel to execute querys, i could execute querys without any administrator of postgresql from your platform cant admin sessions, i could close to sessions without pgadmin

Vendor Response

Hello Mario, Thank you for your review. We¿re glad to hear you have enjoyed the ease of use of our managed PostgreSQL. First, I wanted to let you know that it is now possible to close connections directly from console. Second, our logs view has been improved; for longer logs retention, we support integration to Elasticsearch, where you can keep logs for unlimited (limited by amount of disk space) time. Thanks again!

Replied February 2019

Verified

Reviewer

Higher Education

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

Overall good, customer support is good, however pricing is not great compared to AWS, logs not good.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use, being able to upgrade, downgrade hardware as needed, great customer support, overall decent interface.

Cons:

Hardware versus price is not great, especially compared to AWS, not great logging, seems difficult to customize, no auto scaling.

Nathan K.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2020

Painless PostreSql

Overall all of my interactions with the Aiven team have been positive, even if we didn't arrive at a solution the support team is knowledgeable and truly tries to help. As for the system itself it has been pretty rock solid so far. Keep up the good work.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The confidence I have that the DB will be running, that if there is an update or upgrade I can (from the DB side) simply click a button to deploy it.

Cons:

We are currently transitioning most of our app to k8s and the systems just don't seem to work super well with Digital Ocean's current solution. (We don't get VPC's and as such have issue with whitelisting correct IP's as they tend to change)

Reasons for choosing Aiven for PostgreSQL

I was not part of this process

Verified

Reviewer

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2018

Good for quick start, but more features required

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use, quick setup. We easily migrated to cloud and don't have to manage PostgreSQL any more.

Cons:

Not enough features and settings for PostgreSQL: for example: slow queries logs are missing and we have to monitor by third party tools.

Verified

Reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Great product, really happy about it

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- the support provided during the sales cycle - the exploration of possible options - the platform is clear and user friendly - great product, it took us a few hours to migrate from our database on premise to that on Aiven.

Cons:

- the fact that we can only have Timescale Open Source features run on Aiven, and not the advanced features.

Reasons for choosing Aiven for PostgreSQL

Database as a service, H.A.

Verified

Reviewer

Human Resources

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

Great affordable product

Overall, it's been a smooth experience transitioning and migrating over from our previous hosting platform. The support has been absolutely great thus far.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's clean, simple-to-use, and best of all, is serviced by very knowledgeable IT staff who can answer the finer details of our technical questions and make nuanced recommendations. The pricing plan is also friendlier than those offered by the bigger platforms.

Cons:

It would be great if we can be on the trial plan too, and getting on it was a bit of a hassle, but otherwise not much complaints.

Verified

Reviewer

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

Ideal setup for Postgres + TimescaleDB

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Good Terraform support - TimescaleDB support (plus other addons) - Very responsive sales and engineering department - Supports all major cloud providers including Azure

Cons:

- Pricing is more expensive than Azures own Postgres (but that doesn't TimescaleDB)

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