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There are two kinds of database cluster plans you can choose from: single node clusters and high availability clusters.

• Single node clusters begin at $15.00 per month for a single node cluster with 1 GiB of RAM. Single node clusters are not highly available, but they feature automatic failover. We recommend these clusters for preliminary development and testing.

• High availability clusters begin at $30.00 per month for a 2 GiB RAM/1 vCPU primary node with at least one $30.00 per month matching standby node for automatic failover.

  You can add or remove standby nodes at any time. Other features, like point-in-time recovery and read-only nodes, vary by database engine. See Managed Databases feature availability.

• Read-only nodes begin at $15.00 per month. Read-only nodes are replicas of a cluster’s primary node located in additional geographical regions.

Additional storage you add to a Standard Edition cluster costs $0.215 per GiB per month.

Advanced Edition clusters begin at $130.00 per month for an 8 GiB RAM/2 vCPU primary node. Standby nodes for high availability and read-only nodes bill at the same rate as the primary node. Additional storage costs $0.115 per GiB per month.

Beginning 15 October 2026 for new accounts and 30 November 2026 for all accounts, new Standard Edition clusters cannot use plans with more than 4 GiB of RAM or add standby or read-only nodes. See PostgreSQL and MySQL plan changes.

Traffic to and from managed databases does not count against your bandwidth billing transfer allowance.

Plans for Cluster Nodes

All managed databases are deployed onto Droplets with either shared or dedicated CPU. For a list of the Droplet plans we offer for PostgreSQL, see the Managed Databases pricing page.