Getting Started with Heroku Postgres - Learning Heroku Postgres - page 18

Choosing the right Heroku Postgres plan

Heroku offers three lines of plans with some differences in characteristics, these changes
were made to suit small applications to applications that have a large volume of data or
need transactional control.

Choosing the best plan will depend on the needs of your application. At any time, you can
upgrade your database plan and optimize your application with a very short period of
downtime. You will see more information about this in Chapter 6 , Rollback, Followers, and
Forks .

The main variations between the plans are expected downtime supported:

• Hobby tier tolerates 4 hours of downtime and is used for small and simple applica-
tions.
• Standard tier tolerates 1 hour of downtime and is used for production applications.
• Premium tier tolerates 15 minutes of downtime and is used for production applica-
tions where uptime is important.

The following table shows the main differences between the plans offered by Heroku and
their respective prices:

Plan Connection Limit Row Limit RAM Storage Price

Hobby Dev 20 10,000 0 Bytes No Free

Hobby Basic 20 10,000,000 0 Bytes No $9/mo

Standard 0 120 Unlimited 1 GB 64 GB $50/mo

Premium 0 120 Unlimited 1 GB 64 GB $200/mo

Standard 2 400 Unlimited 3.5 GB 256 GB $200/mo

Premium 2 400 Unlimited 3.5 GB 256 GB $350/mo