AlloyDB
100% PostgreSQL-compatible database, built for agents
Power your most demanding enterprise workloads with superior performance, availability, and AI—on any platform. And scale alongside millions of collaborating AI agents.
Get started with a 30-day AlloyDB free trial instance.
In addition, new Google Cloud customers get $300 in free credits.
Features
PostgreSQL for agents
An agentic database architecture engineered to scale PostgreSQL alongside millions of AI agents without impacting the systems that run your business. This unique architecture is backed by Google ultra-low-latency distributed storage infrastructure, Colossus—delivering native, sub-millisecond I/O and terabit-per-second scan throughput, while bursting to over 1,000 isolated serverless readers in seconds. You can scale large groups of agents without impacting live enterprise operations, query live operational and analytical lakehouse data together without building ETL pipelines, and reduce cloud spend by paying only for active reasoning cycles.
Comprehensive agentic AI capabilities
Build a wide range of AI apps and agents with a fully featured vector database offering the Google ScaNN index, the high-performance technology that powers services like Google Search and YouTube and scales to over 10 billion vectors.* You can generate vector embeddings from within your database, perform hybrid text and semantic search, translate natural language to SQL, integrate with orchestration frameworks, access AI models on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and other platforms, and scale alongside millions of collaborating AI agents. Visit AlloyDB AI for more information.
Better price-performance
AlloyDB is more than 4x faster for transactional workloads and provides up to 2x better price-performance compared to self-managed PostgreSQL.* It's suitable for the most demanding enterprise workloads, including those that require high transaction throughput, large data sizes, or multiple read replicas. Read connections scale horizontally, backed by low lag, scale-out, autoscaling read replica pools, and support cross-region replicas. Committed use discounts offer additional savings for one to three year commitments.
Runs anywhere
AlloyDB Omni is a downloadable edition of AlloyDB, designed to run anywhere—in your data center, on your laptop, at the edge, and in any cloud. It’s powered by the same engine that underlies the cloud-based AlloyDB service and provides the same functionality. AlloyDB Omni is a fraction of the cost of legacy databases, so it’s an attractive way to modernize to an enterprise-grade version of PostgreSQL with support from a Tier 1 vendor.
Real-time business insights
Thanks to its built-in columnar engine, AlloyDB is up to 100x faster than standard PostgreSQL for analytical queries*, with zero impact on operational performance when running business intelligence, reporting, and hybrid transactional and analytical workloads (HTAP). You can also access and write data to Lakehouse Apache Iceberg and BigQuery tables, and call AI models in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform directly within a query or transaction.
AI-driven development and operations
Simplify all aspects of the database journey with AI-powered assistance, helping your teams focus on what matters most. AlloyDB Studio offers a query editor where you can use Gemini to write SQL and analyze your data using natural language prompts. Database Center provides a comprehensive view of your database fleet with intelligent performance and security recommendations and an easy-to-use chat interface for troubleshooting and optimization, while agentic database observability enables access from any AI application via an MCP server.
Fully managed database service
AlloyDB is a fully managed database service with cloud-scale architecture and industry-leading performance, availability, and scale. It automates administrative tasks such as backups, replication, patching, and capacity management, and uses adaptive algorithms and machine learning for PostgreSQL vacuum management, storage management, memory management, data tiering, and analytics acceleration, so you can focus on building your applications.
PostgreSQL compatibility
PostgreSQL has emerged in recent years as a leading alternative to legacy, proprietary databases because of its rich functionality, ecosystem extensions, and enterprise readiness. AlloyDB is fully compatible with PostgreSQL, providing flexibility and true portability for your workloads. It closely tracks PostgreSQL releases, offering safe, easy upgrades and extended support if you need more time to upgrade. It’s easy to migrate existing workloads and bring your existing PostgreSQL skills over.
High availability
AlloyDB offers a 99.99% uptime SLA, inclusive of maintenance. It automatically detects and recovers from most database failures within 60 seconds, independent of database size and load. The architecture supports non-disruptive instance resizing and database maintenance, with planned operations incurring less than 1 second of application downtime. Read pools are updated with zero downtime.
Scalability
Scale AlloyDB instances up and down and deploy up to 20 read replicas in an autoscaling read pool for read scalability. You can create secondary clusters in different regions for disaster recovery, have them continuously replicated from the primary region, and use an automated failover process in case of an outage. Regional replicas deliver more than 25x lower replication lag than standard PostgreSQL for high throughput transactional workloads. They also improve read performance by bringing data closer to your users.
Secure access and connectivity
AlloyDB encrypts data in transit and at rest. It supports private connectivity with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for secure connectivity to your applications, and allows you to access your database instances via private IP without going through the internet or using external IP addresses. You can manage your own encryption keys to encrypt data at rest for your database and your backups, and you can choose between Identity and Access Management (IAM) and PostgreSQL user roles for database authentication.
Continuous backup and recovery
Protect your business from data loss with point-in-time recovery to any point within your defined retention window. Restore the database to a specific date and time for development, testing, and auditing purposes, or recover your production database from user or application errors. You no longer need expensive hardware and software solutions to achieve enterprise-level data protection.
Conversational analytics
Conversational analytics for AlloyDB lets you create data agents in the AlloyDB console, an IDE, or CLI, and chat with them in natural language about your database data. For example, you can use conversational analytics to manage database operations, ask questions about the business data in your AlloyDB database, and support your software development lifecycle.
With QueryData, you can translate natural language into database queries with near-100% accuracy, allowing you to build agentic experiences across AlloyDB.
Data Agent Kit
The Data Agent Kit streamlines your workflows by bundling secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, native IDE plugins, and pre-codified data engineering, data science, and data app developer skills into a single, open-source package. With support across AlloyDB, BigQuery, Cloud SQL for MySQL, Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Dataflow, Spanner, and more., developers can now focus on intent-driven development across the entire data estate.
Lakehouse federation and sync
Access live data from Lakehouse for Apache Iceberg and BigQuery directly from PostgreSQL queries with AlloyDB's lakehouse federation. Serve data back to AlloyDB with single-click reverse ETL to provide operational insights with low latency and high concurrency, and use Datastream to complete the data loop by writing data back to Iceberg and BigQuery tables. Leverage Knowledge Catalog for data governance across the lakehouse and AlloyDB for easy data discoverability.
Easy migrations
No matter where your source database is located—whether on-premises, on Compute Engine, or in other clouds—Database Migration Service (DMS) can migrate it to AlloyDB securely and with minimal downtime. DMS leverages native PostgreSQL replication capabilities and automated schema and code conversion, as necessary, to maximize the reliability of your migration. Gemini adds AI-powered assistance for heterogeneous database migrations, helping you review and convert database-resident code and offering full explainability. For an assessment of your migration needs, try the Database Modernization Program.
Customer-friendly pricing
Eliminate your dependency on high-cost, proprietary databases, and take advantage of transparent and predictable pricing with no proprietary licensing or opaque I/O charges. Storage is automatically managed and you're only charged for what you use, with no additional storage costs for read replicas. An ultra-fast, automatically provisioned cache allows you to maximize the price-performance ratio. Committed use discounts offer additional savings for one to three year commitments. And AlloyDB Omni offers another simple and affordable deployment option.
Compare PostgreSQL options on Google Cloud
| Google Cloud service | Overview | Key benefits |
|---|---|---|
AlloyDB | Full PostgreSQL compatibility, with superior performance and availability and the most comprehensive AI support | Try AlloyDB free to enjoy:
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Cloud SQL | Fully managed, standard version of open source PostgreSQL in the cloud | Learn more about how Cloud SQL provides:
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Spanner | Cloud-native with unlimited scalability and PostgreSQL interface and tooling | Learn more about Spanner if you need:
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AlloyDB
Full PostgreSQL compatibility, with superior performance and availability and the most comprehensive AI support
Try AlloyDB free to enjoy:
- 4x faster performance for transactional workloads*
- Hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP)
- Scalability alongside millions of collaborating AI agents
Cloud SQL
Fully managed, standard version of open source PostgreSQL in the cloud
Learn more about how Cloud SQL provides:
- Easiest lift and shift to the cloud
- Same management as the MySQL and SQL Server engines
- Lowest cost relational database option
Spanner
Cloud-native with unlimited scalability and PostgreSQL interface and tooling
Learn more about Spanner if you need:
- Unlimited scale and global consistency
- 99.999% availability SLA
- Support for relational and non-relational workloads
How It Works
AlloyDB is fully compatible with open source PostgreSQL, including popular extensions, with higher performance and scalability, accelerated analytics and AI, optional read pools and cross-region replication, and AI-driven operations. An agentic database architecture scales PostgreSQL alongside millions of AI agents.
AlloyDB is fully compatible with open source PostgreSQL, including popular extensions, with higher performance and scalability, accelerated analytics and AI, optional read pools and cross-region replication, and AI-driven operations. An agentic database architecture scales PostgreSQL alongside millions of AI agents.
Transactional workloads
The future of PostgreSQL is here
AlloyDB is fully PostgreSQL-compatible but is more than 4x faster for transactional workloads, making it ideal for ecommerce, financial applications, gaming, and any other workload that demands high throughput and fast response times. Independent scaling of compute and storage, an ultra-fast cache, and intelligent database management give your applications room to grow and eliminate tedious database administration tasks.
Learning resources
The future of PostgreSQL is here
AlloyDB is fully PostgreSQL-compatible but is more than 4x faster for transactional workloads, making it ideal for ecommerce, financial applications, gaming, and any other workload that demands high throughput and fast response times. Independent scaling of compute and storage, an ultra-fast cache, and intelligent database management give your applications room to grow and eliminate tedious database administration tasks.
Analytical workloads
Get real-time business insights
As a data analyst, you can get real-time insights by running queries directly on your AlloyDB operational database. With its built-in, automatically managed columnar engine, AlloyDB is up to 100x faster than standard PostgreSQL for analytical queries, making it ideal for real-time business intelligence dashboards, fraud detection, customer behavior analysis, inventory optimization, and personalization.
Learning resources
Get real-time business insights
As a data analyst, you can get real-time insights by running queries directly on your AlloyDB operational database. With its built-in, automatically managed columnar engine, AlloyDB is up to 100x faster than standard PostgreSQL for analytical queries, making it ideal for real-time business intelligence dashboards, fraud detection, customer behavior analysis, inventory optimization, and personalization.
AI applications and agents
Build AI apps with state-of-the-art models
As AI gets integrated into every type of application, the operational database becomes essential for storing and searching vectors and grounding models in enterprise data. AlloyDB AI offers fast vector and hybrid search, helps you generate vector embeddings from within your database, provides capabilities for building natural language interfaces, queries across structured and unstructured data, and offers access to AI models on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and other platforms. With PostgreSQL for agents, AlloyDB can scale alongside millions of collaborating AI agents—when agent activity spikes, AlloyDB spins up database readers in seconds and scales right back to zero once the agents finish.
The Data Agent Kit streamlines workflows by bundling secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, native IDE plugins, and pre-codified data engineering, data science, and data app developer skills into a single, open-source package. Developers can now focus on intent-driven development across the entire data estate.
Learning resources
Build AI apps with state-of-the-art models
As AI gets integrated into every type of application, the operational database becomes essential for storing and searching vectors and grounding models in enterprise data. AlloyDB AI offers fast vector and hybrid search, helps you generate vector embeddings from within your database, provides capabilities for building natural language interfaces, queries across structured and unstructured data, and offers access to AI models on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and other platforms. With PostgreSQL for agents, AlloyDB can scale alongside millions of collaborating AI agents—when agent activity spikes, AlloyDB spins up database readers in seconds and scales right back to zero once the agents finish.
The Data Agent Kit streamlines workflows by bundling secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, native IDE plugins, and pre-codified data engineering, data science, and data app developer skills into a single, open-source package. Developers can now focus on intent-driven development across the entire data estate.
Database modernization
Move your apps to modern, fully managed databases
Whether you are an existing PostgreSQL user or you are looking to transition from legacy databases, you have a path to fully managed databases in the cloud. Database Migration Service (DMS) can help with assessment, conversion, and migration so you can experience the enhanced performance, scalability, and reliability of AlloyDB while maintaining full PostgreSQL compatibility.
Learning resources
Move your apps to modern, fully managed databases
Whether you are an existing PostgreSQL user or you are looking to transition from legacy databases, you have a path to fully managed databases in the cloud. Database Migration Service (DMS) can help with assessment, conversion, and migration so you can experience the enhanced performance, scalability, and reliability of AlloyDB while maintaining full PostgreSQL compatibility.
Multicloud and hybrid cloud
Run anywhere, at a fraction of the cost
While the cloud is the typical destination for database migrations, you may need to keep some workloads on premises to meet regulatory or data sovereignty requirements, and you might need to run them on other clouds or at the edge. AlloyDB Omni is a downloadable edition of AlloyDB that is powered by the same engine as the cloud-based service and offers the same functionality, so you can standardize on a single database across all platforms.
Learning resources
Run anywhere, at a fraction of the cost
While the cloud is the typical destination for database migrations, you may need to keep some workloads on premises to meet regulatory or data sovereignty requirements, and you might need to run them on other clouds or at the edge. AlloyDB Omni is a downloadable edition of AlloyDB that is powered by the same engine as the cloud-based service and offers the same functionality, so you can standardize on a single database across all platforms.
Pricing
| How AlloyDB pricing works | Pricing for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is transparent and predictable with no expensive, proprietary licensing, and no opaque I/O charges. | |
|---|---|---|
| Service | Description | Price (USD) |
Compute | vCPUs | Starting at $0.06608 per vCPU hour |
Memory | Starting at $0.0112 per GB hour | |
Storage | Regional cluster storage | Starting at $0.0004109 per GB hour |
Backup storage | Starting at $0.000137 per GB hour | |
Networking | Data transfer in | FREE |
Data transfer within region | FREE | |
Inter-region data transfer | Starting at $0.02 per GB | |
Outbound traffic into the internet | Starting at $0.08 per GB | |
Specialty networking services | Varies | |
Get full details on pricing and learn about committed use discounts.
*Based on Google Cloud performance tests.
How AlloyDB pricing works
Pricing for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is transparent and predictable with no expensive, proprietary licensing, and no opaque I/O charges.
Compute
vCPUs
Starting at
$0.06608
per vCPU hour
Memory
Starting at
$0.0112
per GB hour
Storage
Regional cluster storage
Starting at
$0.0004109
per GB hour
Backup storage
Starting at
$0.000137
per GB hour
Networking
Data transfer in
FREE
Data transfer within region
FREE
Inter-region data transfer
Starting at
$0.02
per GB
Outbound traffic into the internet
Starting at
$0.08
per GB
Specialty networking services
Varies
Get full details on pricing and learn about committed use discounts.
*Based on Google Cloud performance tests.
Business Case
Learn from customers using AlloyDB
"As our customer base grew, we ran into PostgreSQL vertical scalability limits and problems like CPU, memory, and connection exhaustion. We were thrilled that AlloyDB gave us a drop-in PostgreSQL replacement with much more efficient reads and writes. AlloyDB requires less CPUs to hit our throughput and latency goals, lowering our cost by 40-50% and preparing us for the next phase of customer growth."
JP Grace, Chief Technology Officer, Endear
Featured benefits and customers
Demand more from your database? AlloyDB offers superior speed, reliability, and ease of use.
With a downloadable version, AlloyDB can tackle any project, anywhere.
AlloyDB is perfect for building gen AI apps and is equipped with its own impressive AI capabilities.
Partners & Integration
Accelerate your workloads by working with a partner
Data integration and migration
Business intelligence and analytics
Data governance, security, and observability
Systems integration - global
Systems integration - regional
Streamline the process of moving to, building, and working with AlloyDB. Read about Google Cloud Ready - AlloyDB validated partners and visit the partner directory for a full list of AlloyDB partners.
