Suppose you move your database to a managed Postgres plan. Twenty-five dollars a month, no patching, a dashboard with a restore button. Compared to the VPS you were going to run yourself, it looks like the responsible choice.

Then you read the pricing page properly, all the way down, and find the line that changes the comparison: point-in-time recovery, billed at $100/month per 7 days of retention , on top of the plan.

That is not a hosting cost. That is a different product, priced like insurance, and it is the one thing a self-hosted pgBackRest gives you for the price of a cron job.

The comparison everyone makes

Prices read from the providers' own pages on 2026-10-29, before tax:

Option What it is Monthly

OVHcloud VPS-1 2 vCores, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe, daily backup €4.49

Supabase Pro 8 GB disk, $10 compute credit covering one Micro instance $25

Supabase PITR add-on 7-day retention +$100

On RAM per euro, the VPS wins by roughly a factor of twenty. A Supabase Micro instance is 1 GB of RAM for $25.…