Neon pricing
Market leader. Maturity: Established (12 months or more). Replaces Supabase. Last checked 2026-10-21.
Visitors who say they use Neon: none yet. Self-reported, anonymous, and never used for order.
| plan | from $/mo | billed | source | checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | gb | pricing page | 2026-10-21 |
| Launch | $19.08 | gb | pricing page | 2026-10-21 |
Free: Free: 100 CU-hours a month per project and 1 GB of storage per project. An always-on 0.25 CU database uses 180 CU-hours a month, so Free cannot keep this database on and is not priced.
Launch: Usage-based with no monthly minimum: $0.106 per CU-hour and $0.35 per GB-month of storage. Priced for a 0.25 CU compute (1 GB of memory) running all month: 0.25 CU x 720 hours x $0.106 = $19.08. Compute scales to zero when idle and costs less than this if the database is quiet. Worked out as $19.08 + $0.35 for each GB stored.
features recorded
| feature | status | from plan | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic backups | yes | Launch | Instant restore: a history window (1 day by default on paid plans, up to 7 days), billed by the volume of data changes; scheduled backup snapshots are an optional extra at $0.09 per GB-month. Neither is in the cost shown. |
| Connection pooling | yes | Free | Pooled connections built on PgBouncer, up to 10,000 connections, on every plan. |
| Postgres extensions (such as pgvector) | yes | Free | A Postgres extensions library including pgvector, PostGIS and TimescaleDB. |
| Point-in-time restore | yes | Launch | Instant restore within the history window (up to 7 days on Launch). |
| High availability (automatic failover) | partial | Free | Storage is multi-AZ by default, without HA standbys; compute restarts after a failure rather than failing over to a standby. |
| Database branches | yes | Free | 10 branches per project included; extra branches $0.002 per branch-hour. |
| Read replicas | yes | Free | Read replicas without added storage cost; each replica compute is billed as compute. |
| Sign-in and file storage from the same vendor | yes | Free | Managed Better Auth and Object Storage are offered alongside the database. |
limits and caveats
| limit | what the vendor says | source | checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| scale-to-zero | Compute scales to zero after 5 minutes idle; the cost shown assumes the database is busy all month, so a mostly idle database costs less | source | 2026-10-21 |
| history | Instant restore history and scheduled backups are billed separately ($0.20 and $0.09 per GB-month) and are not in the cost shown | source | 2026-10-21 |
| free-plan | Free allows 100 CU-hours a month per project and 1 GB of storage; it is not priced for an always-on database | source | 2026-10-21 |
compare
- +Cheaper alternatives to Neon: what each costs at every size, and what you would lose.
- +Supabase alternatives: how Neon compares.
- +All database tools, including DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL, Fly.io Managed Postgres, Heroku Postgres, PlanetScale, Railway Postgres.
switches
Reported switches to Neon from other listed tools: none yet. Self-reported by visitors, shown as a raw count, and never used for ranking.
What people said they gave up (read first, one person's view each):
proof signals
- +Pricing page says Neon is built around Lakebase Postgres, by Databricks
- +Scale plan lists SLAs and HIPAA
details
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