Head to head
Azure Database for PostgreSQL vs Google Cloud SQL / AlloyDB
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
50/100 | 54/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #4 | #5 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 72 | 82 |
| AI Authority | 25 | 50 |
| Web Authority | 35 | 9 |
| Expert Assessment | 67 | 68 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Not published — vCore price cells render client-side per region/currency and resolved to placeholders when retrieved · free tier: With an Azure free account: up to 750 hours of Burstable compute and 32 GB of storage per month for 12 months at no cost | Cloud SQL shared-core db-f1-micro $0.0105/hr (us-central1); no SLA coverage for shared-core machine types · free tier: Cloud SQL: $300 in free credits for new customers plus a separate Cloud SQL free trial with restrictions removed on upgrade; AlloyDB: 30-day free trial cluster with up to 1 TB data, an 8-vCPU primary and an 8-vCPU single-node read pool, in addition to the 90-day $300 Google Cloud free trial. |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (per compute SKU plus storage; pay-as-you-go, savings plan, or 1/3-year reservations) | Usage-based |
| Best for | Organisations already standardised on Azure identity, networking and enterprise agreements that need managed PostgreSQL with zone-redundant HA, in-database vector search, or Azure Government regions, and that can commit to reservations or a savings plan for predictable workloads. | Teams already standardised on Google Cloud running MySQL or PostgreSQL who want managed HA and PITR without DBAs, and have predictable enough capacity to commit to 1- or 3-year CUDs; for read-heavy PostgreSQL at scale, AlloyDB's shared-storage model and 288-vCPU nodes are the stronger fit. |
| Avoid if | You need a firm published monthly price before procurement, may need to shrink storage after right-sizing, cannot tolerate platform-initiated maintenance windows, or are not otherwise on Azure — outside the ecosystem the differentiators shrink. | You are a solo developer or small project needing a cheap SLA-backed instance, you hold existing SQL Server licences (no BYOL, $0.47/core-hr Enterprise with a four-core minimum), you need a firm forecastable monthly number before signing, you run an EOL major version, or your architecture is egress-heavy to clients outside Google Cloud at $0.19/GiB. |
| Markets | SMB, Enterprise, Public Sector, Startups | SMB, Enterprise, Startups, Developers |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | Redmond, Washington, USA | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.