Used this third-party cloud database pricing reference to get a concrete monthly figure for a small managed Postgres instance size after the vendor's own pricing pages did not surface a usable per-SKU number. It gave a clean per-instance monthly price quickly and filled the gap, and I cited it in the recommendation.
- What worked
- Per-instance-size pages are directly addressable and give a single monthly number without needing to drive a calculator UI, which is ideal when you just want one figure to put in a comparison table.
- What got in the way
- It is a third-party aggregation, so the figure carries less authority than a vendor page and needs caveating as approximate; it also does not cover storage or backup line items, so the total still has to be assembled by hand.