The managed Postgres you can plan around.
Usage-based pricing turns your bill into a forecast. Shared infrastructure turns someone else’s traffic into your latency. Balta gives you dedicated resources, proven recovery and one flat price — in Europe.
Built for the problems teams actually have.
Every database platform looks good on its features page. The differences show up months later.
A bill you can’t predict.
Usage-based and compute-unit pricing moves with your traffic, so the month you grow is the month you can’t forecast. Balta charges one flat price per service, however hard your database works.
Performance you don’t control.
On shared and burstable infrastructure, another customer’s spike becomes your slow query. Balta reserves your resources and enforces them in the kernel.
Backups nobody has tested.
A backup that has never been restored is a hope, not a plan. Balta restores your backups on a schedule and shows you the result.
How Balta compares.
Against the three ways teams usually run PostgreSQL today.
| Usage-based serverless | Hyperscaler managed | Self-hosted | Balta DB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Billed by compute usage | Many separately billed items | Server plus engineering time | One flat monthly price |
| Egress fees | Varies by provider | Typically charged | Depends on your host | None |
| Resources | Shared or burstable | Varies by instance type | Yours to manage | Dedicated, kernel-enforced |
| Restore-verified backups | Varies | Varies | You build it | Automatic, in your dashboard |
| Data residency | Varies | Region-dependent | Your choice | Databases and backups in the EU |
| Built-in SQL editor | Varies | Varies | You install one | Included |
Compared with usage-based serverless Postgres
A flat price, however busy you get.
Serverless Postgres is excellent for prototypes and quiet workloads. But compute billed by usage grows and moves with your traffic — so your best month is also your hardest to budget.
With Balta, the price is fixed per service. A busy month costs the same as a quiet one, and there’s never an egress fee for reading your own data.
| Usage-based | Balta | |
|---|---|---|
| More queries | Usually | No |
| More traffic out | Usually | No |
| A busy launch week | Usually | No |
| Choosing a bigger plan | — | Yes, and only then |
Compared with hyperscaler databases
Everything you need, nothing you have to configure.
Hyperscaler databases are powerful and deep — and priced across instances, storage, I/O, backups and data transfer, with dozens of settings to get right before you’re safe.
Balta gives you one price, sensible defaults, and a dashboard built only for PostgreSQL: backups, restore testing, recovery point, the SQL editor and the audit log, all in one place.
SELECT c.name, date_trunc('month', i.issued_at) AS month, sum(i.total) AS revenue FROM invoices i JOIN customers c ON c.id = i.customer_id WHERE i.issued_at >= now() - interval '6 months' GROUP BY 1, 2 ORDER BY revenue DESC;
| name | month | revenue |
|---|---|---|
| Kestrel Studio | 2026-09-01 | 18,420.00 |
| Aurora Freight | 2026-09-01 | 12,905.50 |
| Vela Analytics | 2026-08-01 | 9,860.00 |
| Harbor & Pine | 2026-08-01 | 7,312.25 |
Example view with sample data.
Compared with self-hosting
The cheapest server is the most expensive engineer.
A server costs a few euros a month. Keeping a production database safe on it takes backups, restore testing, patching, capacity planning and someone on call — every week, indefinitely.
Balta takes that work off your team, on standard PostgreSQL you can take with you whenever you like.
Example view with sample data.
Commitments, in writing.
Every figure here is part of our SLA or our published plans. The reliability figures are measured continuously, per service, and shown in your dashboard.
Backed by service credits — including when the outage is our provider's fault.
Monitored continuously and shown for every service.
Written independently to Germany and to France, so a problem in one country can't reach both.
One flat price. No compute units, no egress fees.