Looking to migrate off of Heroku?
Effortlessly migrate your Heroku Postgres database
For a limited time we are offering extended support and discounts for customers looking to move their database from Heroku. Get in touch to find out what discounts we can find for you.
Free, Easy Migration
Customers have migrated databases larger than 4 TB with less than a minute of downtime during switch-over.
Expert Support
Are you a developer who happens to also manage the database? With Crunchy Bridge, you get access to experts.
Security - no charge
All databases run in their own VPC + peering available + Soc 2 Type 2 + HIPAA BAA available with no upcharge.
If I had known migrating was this easy,
I would have moved to Crunchy Bridge 6 months ago!
Crunchy Bridge
Customizable CPU / RAM & Disk to your needs
Feature | Included |
---|---|
Open-source Postgres versions 12, 13, 14, 15 | Yes |
Fork & Follow Capabilities | Yes |
Connection Pooling with PG Bouncer | Yes |
Performance Monitoring & Dashboards | Yes |
Postgres Extensions | Yes |
Logical Replication Support | Yes |
Superuser Access | Yes |
Feature | Included |
---|---|
Customize CPU / RAM / Disk to use-case | Yes |
Daily Snapshot Backups | Yes |
Point-in-Time Restore using WAL | Yes |
High-Availability with Auto-Failover | Yes |
Isolated VPC + VPC peering | Yes |
SOC2 Type 2 | Yes |
Sign BAA for HIPAA Compliance | Yes |
Feature | Included |
---|---|
24/7 Infrastructure Monitoring | Yes |
24/7 Database Health Monitoring | Yes |
Support Desk from Postgres Experts | Yes |
Heroku
Fixed CPU / RAM & Disk sizing
Feature | Included |
---|---|
Open-source Postgres versions 12, 13, 14, 15 | Yes |
Fork & Follow Capabilities | Yes |
Connection Pooling with PG Bouncer | Yes |
Performance Monitoring & Dashboards | Yes |
Postgres Extensions | No |
Logical Replication Support | No |
Superuser Access | No |
Feature | Included |
---|---|
Customize CPU / RAM / Disk to use-case | No |
Daily Snapshot Backups | Yes |
Point-in-Time Restore using WAL | Yes |
High-Availability with Auto-Failover | No |
Isolated VPC + VPC peering | No |
SOC2 Type 2 | Yes |
Sign BAA for HIPAA Compliance | No |
Feature | Included |
---|---|
24/7 Infrastructure Monitoring | Yes |
24/7 Database Health Monitoring | Yes |
Support Desk from Postgres Experts | No |
Feature byProducts | Crunchy Bridge | Heroku | |
---|---|---|---|
Pricing | Customizable CPU / RAM & Disk to your needs | Fixed CPU / RAM & Disk sizing | |
Database Capabilities | |||
Open-source Postgres versions 12, 13, 14, 15 | Included in bridge | Included in heroku | |
Fork & Follow Capabilities | Included in bridge | Included in heroku | |
Connection Pooling with PG Bouncer | Included in bridge | Included in heroku | |
Performance Monitoring & Dashboards | Included in bridge | Included in heroku | |
Postgres Extensions | Included in bridge | Not included in heroku | |
Logical Replication Support | Included in bridge | Not included in heroku | |
Superuser Access | Included in bridge | Not included in heroku | |
Operations & Infrastructure | |||
Customize CPU / RAM / Disk to use-case | Included in bridge | Not included in heroku | |
Daily Snapshot Backups | Included in bridge | Included in heroku | |
Point-in-Time Restore using WAL | Included in bridge | Included in heroku | |
High-Availability with Auto-Failover | Included in bridge | Not included in heroku | |
Isolated VPC + VPC peering | Included in bridge | Not included in heroku | |
SOC2 Type 2 | Included in bridge | Included in heroku | |
Sign BAA for HIPAA Compliance | Included in bridge | Not included in heroku | |
Support | |||
24/7 Infrastructure Monitoring | Included in bridge | Included in heroku | |
24/7 Database Health Monitoring | Included in bridge | Included in heroku | |
Support Desk from Postgres Experts | Included in bridge | Not included in heroku |
[1] Postgres Extensions: Heroku does not include all contrib extensions.
[2] High-Availability with Auto-Failover: Heroku changes hostname, which makes it inoperable with non-Heroku code-bases.
[3] Isolated VPC + VPC peering: Heroku has additional charge to access this feature
Unfinished Business with Postgres
If you want to learn more on where Crunchy Bridge is picking up from where Heroku left off our product lead wrote a bit about his journey from early Heroku days

Craig Kerstiens
Product Lead
Crunchy Bridge
Cloud Postgres built for a superior developer experience
On Crunchy Bridge, Developer Experience (DX) means a toolset that gets you into the zone. Our platform has the tools necessary for developers to execute the optimum decision for performance and scale today while looking into the future.
“The Crunchy team is awesome to work with, very responsive, very smart, and are clearly committed to getting the customer issues solved. We are working with Crunchy for the people and the technology.”
Production Ready
Crunchy Postgres is production ready Postgres
Companies of all sizes, of any enterprise or industry, can benefit from moving operations to PostgreSQL. We can help you with your journey and assist in providing the operational and developer experience you've always wanted with the database you've always loved.
Backups
- Data is one of your most valuable assets, Crunchy Postgres ensures your data is safe and backed up so you can sleep easy.
Disaster recovery
- When the worst happens we have you covered. Never worry about data corruption or loss with point-in-time recovery.
High availability
- With high availability you can trust your database is online.
Connection scaling
- With built in connection scaling you can easily scale to tens of thousands of connections for your database.
Monitoring
- Get the insights you need to know what is happening with your database with monitoring included.
No lock-in
- With Crunchy Data and open-source Postgres you are not locked-in to proprietary technology.