Small businessgoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsNot ranked
1 category · Named, not rankedHeroku Postgres
4Judge labels
0First choices
3Negative labels
3 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
4 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Heroku Postgres was named 4 times in Managed databases, where Amazon RDS led with 45%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market82 of 82
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In managed databases · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Heroku Postgres for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed relational databases | Data platform | 0% | 82 of 82 | 75% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 45% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Heroku Postgres held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Managed databases · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 69 → 72 of 72
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed databases | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 69 → 82 of 82 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Heroku Postgres across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Heroku Postgres across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“budget-friendly managed hosting options include: Heroku Postgres (tiered pricing, has free options)” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Managed databases · budget prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Heroku explicitly denies access to the superuser or replication roles... resulting in hours of application downtime” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · negative prompt · hard negative
“Essential tier databases have variable performance by design - not suitable for production workloads” Kimi K2 · Managed databases · negative prompt · soft negative
“Higher cost per performance unit” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Heroku Postgres, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Heroku Postgres was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Heroku Postgres, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Heroku Postgres was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Heroku Postgres. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 4 answers that named Heroku Postgres and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
news.ycombinator.com2
aerospike.com1
ai2h.tech1
articsledge.com1
bytebase.com1
deployhq.com1
devcenter.heroku.comYour site1
digitaldefynd.com1
featureos.com1
g2.com1
Ten of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Heroku Postgres came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
heroku.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Heroku Postgres takes 0% of first choices and Amazon RDS takes 45%.ShowHide
Search and answers
heroku.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Heroku Postgres takes 0% of first choices and Amazon RDS takes 45%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “managed relational database service”
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not in the top ten
Position for “managed relational database services”
–
not in the top ten
- Organic visits to its site
- about 47,517 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 4,514 · 370 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 29,382
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 82 of 82 in managed databases
Segment leader
45%
Amazon RDS
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 4 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 2 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on heroku.com
1,991
subdomains included
Content
1,075
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
4 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 758 | 4 | 2026-08-25 | MFA, Logs | |
| Podcast or video | 149 | 0 | 2025-01-13 | ||
| Case study | 100 | 0 | 2026-04-29 | ||
| Conference or event | 47 | 0 | 2026-03-23 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 8 | 0 | 2026-01-28 | ||
| Report or ebook | 7 | 0 | 2025-10-06 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | 0 | 2026-05-26 | ||
| Comparison | 1 | 0 | 2026-01-30 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-08-256 Lesser-Known Heroku CLI Commands You Probably Aren’t Using blog
- 2026-08-21Fine-Grained Access Control Now Available for All Heroku Customers blog
- 2026-07-16How To Set Up a Staging Environment on Heroku in 3 Easy Steps blog
- 2026-07-01Securing heroku cli credentials with system keychain storage blog
- 2026-06-24Health check for your heroku connect data pipeline blog
- 2026-05-26What is dbaas glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page heroku.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Heroku Postgres
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Heroku Postgres; a claim can dispute any of them.
Heroku Postgres (Lower Tiers) 1
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An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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The company
Heroku Postgres is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Heroku Postgres is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Heroku’s trusted, secure, and scalable fully managed PostgreSQL database as a service, optimized for developers.
- For
- developers
- Price stated
- Yes heroku.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 5 heroku.com/pricing
- Certifications
- HIPAA and PCI compliantISO 27001, 27017, 27018 Security Management Controls, Cloud Specific Controls, Personal Data ProtectionSOC 1, 2, 3 Security, Availability & Confidentiality Reports
- Not stated on the pages read
- Free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers
What Heroku Postgres's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: heroku.com, heroku.com/pricing, heroku.com/compliance, heroku.com/platform, heroku.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Heroku Postgres's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Heroku Postgres, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Heroku Postgres by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Heroku Postgres is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Heroku Postgres, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.