---
title: "AlloyDB vs. self-managed PostgreSQL: a price-performance comparison"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/alloydb-vs-self-managed-postgresql-a-price-performance-comparison-utljzmngh
source_url: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/alloydb-vs-self-managed-postgresql-a-price-performance-comparison/
type: article
source: "Google Cloud"
published: 2024-05-10T16:12:12.461Z
updated: 2024-05-10T16:12:11.832Z
tags: ["performance", "database", "gcp", "postgresql", "alloydb"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# AlloyDB vs. self-managed PostgreSQL: a price-performance comparison

**[Google Cloud](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp)** · 1 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL provides up to 2x better price-performance than self-managed PostgreSQL. It offers additional cost savings with shared regional storage and addresses challenges associated with self-managed databases through automation and scalability.

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