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Serverless Postgres in your own cloud

Branch databases in seconds, scale idle ones to zero and restore to any second, all inside your own Kubernetes cluster and cloud account.

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acme / productionactivesuspended
mainactive 2 CUrestore 14:02:11preview/checkoutactive 0.5 CUsuspendedagent-7f3asuspendedactive 0.25 CU

Fast where it counts

0.5ms

Durable commit

9ms

Resume from pause

130ms

Branch to first write

1.4s

Wake from zero

Medians from our September 2026 test runs on Linux test machines and a local Kubernetes cluster, in the default object storage mode, not on a production cloud. Conditions for each number are on the product page.

A branch for every change

Every pull request, preview and agent gets its own writable copy of your data, and copies share storage.

  • Ready in about 130 ms, data included
  • Branch from now or any past second
  • Dedicated-disk projects copy the data instead
How branching works
240 branches of mainworkingasleep, 0 CU

Idle databases cost nothing

A quiet database stops its compute, and the next connection wakes it through the same address.

  • Wakes in under 2 s from zero
  • Or in about 9 ms when kept paused in memory
  • Your app never changes its connection string

Undo any mistake

Every change is kept, so you can branch at the second before something went wrong.

  • Any second in your retention window, 7 days by default
  • No snapshots to find
  • No new cluster to build

Your data stays in your account

SkelaDB runs in your VPC and you pay your cloud provider for what it uses. We ship the software, you keep the data.

  • Your provider's prices, with no markup
  • Your keys, your IAM, your region
  • Infrastructure spend lands on your own cloud bill
SkelaDB runs entirely inside your cloud account: your apps and agents connect through the proxy to branch computes, which read and write storage in your own bucket under your own keys. SkelaDB only ships container images.your-cloud-account / vpc-proda compute per branchYour appsdrivers, ORMsAI agentsMCP, CLIProxyTLS, poolingWAL service3 nodesPageserverany page, any timeYour keysKMSmain2 CUpr-12840.25 CUagent-7f3aasleepYour object storageS3, GCS or Blob, encrypted with your keysSkelaDBimagesOnly images come in. No data goes out.

Built for AI agents

Give each agent task its own branch, let it run SQL, then throw the branch away.

  • MCP server and CLI as downloadable binaries
  • Keys scoped to one project
  • Retry management commands with the same idempotency key and payload
SkelaDB for agents 
skela branch create --name agent-7f3a \
    --parent $MAIN --idempotency-key task-7f3a
{ "operation_id": "3f1c…", "state": "queued" }
skela database query $DB \
    --sql 'select count(*) from events'
{ "rows": [[ 48213 ]] }

One console for all of it

Branches, SQL, restore and monitoring in one place, running inside your network.

checkout-api/main
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checkout-api Active

PostgreSQL 18.4 · AWS us-east-1 · 6 of 24 branches running

Pooledpostgresql://app:••••@checkout-api.db.acme.internal/app
Queries / s2,418+12% vs yesterday
Connections148/ 400pooled by the proxy
Compute2.0CUautoscale 0.25 to 4
Storage18.4GB7 days of history
Computemain · last 24 hours
CUscaled to zero
Asleep6 h 10 m
Peak3.5 CU
Wakes4
Databaseson main
New
  • app42 tables
    14.2 GB
  • analytics18 tables
    3.8 GB
  • auth9 tables
    412 MB
Extensions
pg_trgmpgcryptopostgis

Works with your tools

It is PostgreSQL 18 with four small storage patches, so any driver, ORM or client that speaks Postgres connects.

PostgreSQLPrismaDrizzleDjangoRuby on RailsNode.jsGoRustPythonKubernetesDBeaverGrafana

Common questions

Serverless Postgres that you install in your own cloud account. Databases branch in seconds, stop when idle and restore to any second of their history.

In your own Kubernetes cluster and cloud account. Compute runs in your cluster and history is kept in your own object storage bucket. Nothing passes through SkelaDB.

Yes. SkelaDB runs PostgreSQL 18 with four small patches that make storage pluggable, plus a storage extension. Drivers, ORMs, contrib extensions, pgvector and the wire protocol work unchanged; other extensions, such as PostGIS, are not included.

Agents need many short-lived, isolated databases. SkelaDB gives each task its own branch of real data, stops it when the task ends, and offers an MCP server and CLI as downloadable binaries with scoped keys.

Any Kubernetes 1.29 or later with cert-manager and an S3, Google Cloud Storage or Azure Blob bucket. Install profiles for Amazon EKS, Google GKE and Azure AKS are in preview: we have tested on local Kubernetes and emulated AWS, not yet on those managed services.

Self-hosting is free for organizations under $1M in annual revenue, with every feature, using a free license key we issue on request. Larger organizations buy an annual license. SkelaDB Cloud, the managed version, is coming soon.

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