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Guides to a database with a bill you can compute.
What a flat price includes, how to leave a metered service, and what runs on one dedicated machine. Every number on these pages is the pricing page's, so they stay true as the product changes.
The bill
What a flat price includes, and what a metered one hides.
Flat-price managed database
A managed database with a flat price you can compute
One dedicated machine, one monthly price from $15: storage, 20 TB of traffic, backups, TLS and the console included. Nothing metered.
No egress fees
Managed Postgres: traffic included, no metering
Every Lathe instance includes 20 TB of traffic a month at full speed. Pull backups, run exports, move your data out: traffic is included in the flat price.
Never paused, never metered
A database that never pauses and never meters
No scale-to-zero, no cold starts, no paused projects, no usage meters. One dedicated machine that is on all month for one price from $15.
A database for side projects
A database for side projects that does not surprise you
One dedicated machine for all your small projects at $15 a month: never paused, never metered, storage and 20 TB of traffic included.
Moving off a metered service
Leaving Supabase or Neon, and the move itself.
Supabase alternative
A Supabase alternative for the database part
Moving the Postgres out of Supabase to a dedicated machine with a flat price from $15: what changes, what you give up, and the three commands that move it.
Neon alternative
A Neon alternative that never scales to zero
Neon meters compute hours and scales to zero. Lathe is one dedicated Postgres machine, always on, from $15 flat. What changes, what you lose, how to move.
Moving a Postgres database
How to move a Postgres database with pg_dump and pg_restore
Moving a PostgreSQL database between providers in three commands: dump, restore, switch the connection string. What to check, and how to keep downtime short.
How it runs
One dedicated machine, the engines on it, and the alternative of running it yourself.
Self-hosted VPS or managed
Postgres on a cheap VPS, or the same box run for you
A VPS with Postgres on it is the right call until the night it stops answering. What self-hosting costs in hours, what Lathe does instead, and when each fits.
One machine, every engine
Postgres, Redis, CouchDB and NATS on one dedicated machine
Any mix of Postgres 17, Redis 8, CouchDB 3 and NATS 2 on one Lathe instance, each on its own TLS port with its own password, on a memory budget you set.
Redis beside Postgres
Redis and Postgres on one machine, one bill
A cache and a queue next to your database on the same dedicated machine, each with its own memory budget and TLS port, for one flat price from $15.
pgvector on your own machine
pgvector embeddings on a dedicated Postgres machine
Embeddings are big and cheap to rebuild. Run pgvector on a dedicated machine with storage and 20 TB of traffic included, from $15 a month. Nothing metered.
The engines
One page per engine: what runs, how to connect, what it costs.
Managed PostgreSQL 17
Managed PostgreSQL 17 on a dedicated machine
PostgreSQL 17 with PgBouncer, TLS, pgvector and restore-tested daily backups on a dedicated machine you do not run. Flat price from $15 a month.
Managed Redis 8
Managed Redis 8 with TLS on a dedicated machine
Redis 8 with TLS, a password, a memory budget you set and a console in the portal, on the same dedicated machine as your database. Nothing metered.
Managed CouchDB 3
Managed CouchDB 3 on a dedicated machine
CouchDB 3 over HTTPS with admin credentials, Fauxton, replication and Mango queries on your own dedicated machine. Flat monthly price, nothing metered.
Managed NATS 2 with JetStream
Managed NATS 2 with JetStream on a dedicated machine
NATS 2 with JetStream persistent streams, TLS and credentials on the same dedicated machine as your database. Streams managed from the portal. Flat price.
Written for a person; the same facts for an AI agent are on the agents page and at /llms.txt.
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