managed postgres · made in germany 🇩🇪

Managed Postgres,
hosted in Germany.

Try it before you sign up.

A real database for an hour, with no account and no card. Keep it for €5 a month. Daily backups and recovery to any second are included, and a branch of your database takes about a minute. Run by a German company on Hetzner; your data never leaves the EU.

a real Postgres database for 60 minutes · no account, no card

Create an account →Pricing →Docs →
eu-edge.zektor.io
3 regions
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DE-NUE
Nuremberg
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DE-FSN
Falkenstein
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FI-HEL
Helsinki
hosted on hetznerno aws · no gcp · no azure
<60s
to deploy
1s
restore precision
€5
from / mo, net
where your data lives
Stays in the EU
storage, backups and WAL archives
ISO 27001
certified Hetzner data centers
🇩🇪 German company
German law, no US parent
GDPR
DPA on request
prod-eu-central-1example
preview/pr-2412.3 GB Δproduction12.4 GBwrites/sincident-replay12.4 GBNOW04:32 · WRITE SPIKEttl 23h 51mfrom the last snapshot−7d−5d−3d−1d
snapshots168retention7ddefault expiry7d
database branching

Branch your database
like you branch code

create isolated copies from any backup or point-in-time · each branch has its own credentials, compute, and can scale independently

Disaster recovery
restore + verify
Test migrations
real schema, real data
Dev environments
isolated, ephemeral
Data analysis
query without prod impact
independent scaling

Storage scales independently
from compute

scale CPU & RAM together via cluster tiers, while storage grows when you ask, or by itself · never shrinks · €0.15/GB/mo above what the plan includes

→ your database can have 512 MB RAM with 500 GB storage for €79.25/mo net · or 16 GB RAM with just the 20 GB it includes · no forced bundles

prod-eu-central-1example
SCALES INDEPENDENTLYcomputeakpg-808 GB · 4 vCPU€85.00/mostorage312 GBincl. 10 GB€0.15/GB/moakpg-320akpg-160akpg-20 · 2 GBakpg-40 · 4 GBakpg-80 · 8 GBNOW−90d−60d−30d
plan€85.00storage€45.30total€130.30
backups & point-in-time recovery

Travel back in time.
Every minute is replayable.

PITR restores to any second between your oldest base backup and now · WAL archiving captures every change, every minute

Daily
7-day
Weekly
90-day
Monthly
1-year

custom schedules: hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or cron · up to 5 per instance

prod-eu-central-1example
monthly12 · 1 yearweekly13 · 90 daysdaily7 · 7 dayspitr604,800 ptsDISCRETE RESTORE POINTSANY SECONDwal window · 7dNOWlog scale−1y−90d−30d−7d−24h
last base04:00wal segs312retained1 year
for ai agents · mcp

Let your agent build on
a real database

a real Postgres database for 60 minutes · no account, no card · open the claim link to keep it

The Zektor MCP server works with Claude Code, Cursor and any MCP client. Without an account it offers create_trial_database; with your token it creates, scales and branches databases. Deleting stays off unless you turn it on.

Try without signup →MCP server docs →
terminal
# a database for the next hour
psql "$(npx zektor try)"

# or hand your agent the MCP server
claude mcp add zektor -- npx -y zektor mcp
pricing

One plan per database. No surprises.

monthly, cancel anytime · daily backups and PITR included · prices net

AKPG-5
€5/ month
512 MB RAM · 0.25 vCPU · 5 GB
AKPG-10
€12/ month
1 GB RAM · 0.5 vCPU · 5 GB
AKPG-20
€20/ month
2 GB RAM · 1 vCPU · 5 GB

plans up to 32 GB RAM · storage €0.15/GB above the plan · need a cache? Valkey from €2 · all prices

who runs this

A small German company you can reach

Company

Registered in Germany, under German and EU law, with no US parent company. Invoices come from Germany.

Servers

Hetzner data centers in Nuremberg, Falkenstein and Helsinki. Storage, backups and WAL archives never leave the EU.

Support

Write to [email protected] and the person who answers also runs the servers. No ticket bots, no call centre.

Security →Impressum →
why switch

Coming from somewhere else?

fromSupabase
Product
Supabase: Backend platform built around Postgres
Zektor: Managed PostgreSQL, plus Valkey for caching
Backups
Supabase: Depends on plan
Zektor: Daily backups, point-in-time recovery, branches from any backup
Full comparison →
fromNeon
Compute
Neon: Serverless, scales to zero
Zektor: Always-on instance with fixed CPU and RAM, no cold starts
Branching
Neon: Copy-on-write branches
Zektor: Branches from any backup or point in time, each with its own credentials and compute
Full comparison →
fromHeroku Postgres
Storage
Heroku Postgres: Fixed per plan
Zektor: Grows on its own or on request, separately from CPU and RAM
Branching
Heroku Postgres: Forks and followers
Zektor: Branches from any backup or point in time
Full comparison →
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Ship a database in 60 seconds

EU residency · daily backups · cancel anytime

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