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How SelfHost
Compares.Real pricing. Real features. No marketing fluff. Pick a competitor and see the numbers side by side.
Same Graviton hardware, 30-46% less cost
PITR included at $79/mo, not $100/mo extra
Predictable pricing, 4.4x cheaper storage
PITR, autoscaling, BYOC, and 38 AWS regions
Production-ready from $19/mo, not $200+/mo
Fully managed with backups, PITR, monitoring built-in
What every competitor is missing
Only on
SelfHost.
75 MCP Tools
Manage your database from Claude, Cursor, or VS Code. Create instances, run backups, configure alerts, tune performance — all in natural language. No competitor has this.
BYOC at $79/mo
Bring Your Own Cloud — databases run in your AWS account, you own the infrastructure, we manage everything. Competitors charge $10K+/yr for this or don't offer it at all.
Transparent Pricing
Infrastructure at 35% above AWS cost. No hidden fees, no usage surprises, no bill anxiety. You see the AWS rate and our markup — math you can verify.
At a
Glance.
| Feature | SelfHost | RDS | Supabase | Neon | DO | Aiven | Railway |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCP tools | 76 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| BYOC | $79/mo | N/A | - | - | - | Enterprise | - |
| Connection pooling | Coming soon | $21-44/mo | Included | Included | Included | Included | - |
| PITR | Pro $79 | Included | $100+/mo | Included | - | Business+ | - |
| Autoscaling | Pro $79 | Aurora only | - | CU-based | - | Manual | Usage-based |
| Monitoring | 90 days | CloudWatch | Basic | Basic | Basic | Built-in | Basic |
| Regions | 30 | 30+ | 12 | 15+ | 8 | 100+ | Limited |
| SSO / Compliance | $249/mo | Included | $599/mo | Scale | - | Premium | - |
| Free tier | Always-on | - | Pauses | Suspends | - | 1 GB | - |
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