Neon review
Free tierServerless Postgres that branches like git
Postgres where storage and compute are separated, so a database branch is instant and cheap and idle compute costs nothing. A branch per pull request is the thing people come for.
Entry price
Free, then pay per use
Free: Free plan: 0.5 GB storage per project, 100 compute-hours, 10 branches, up to 100 projects, no card required.
Our Neon verdict
Neon costs free, then pay per use. Nobody has reviewed it here yet, so this page is about what it costs and what it does, not how well it does it.
Teams who want a real database branch on every preview deploy. There is a free tier: Free plan: 0.5 GB storage per project, 100 compute-hours, 10 branches, up to 100 projects, no card required..
- Who it is not for
- Owned by Databricks since 2025, so you are betting on somebody else's roadmap for it
- What this is based on
- Based on pricing read from Neon's own page on 2026-08-28, and what the product says it does. No reviews yet, so no score.
Pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual /mo | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Same as monthly | 100 CU-hours and 0.5 GB storage per project, 10 branches, 100 projects, 5 GB egress; compute suspends until next month once a limit is hit |
| Launch | Not published | Same as monthly | Usage-based with no monthly minimum: $0.106 per CU-hour, $0.35 per GB-month storage, 10 branches included then $1.50 each, 500 GB egress per project |
| Scale | Not published | Same as monthly | Usage-based with no monthly minimum: $0.222 per CU-hour, $0.35 per GB-month storage, 25 branches included, 1,000 projects, private networking at $0.01/GB |
Neon price history
Every price changeNeon's pricing has not moved since we started tracking it on 2026-08-27. We read it off Neon's own pricing page on every update, and this section fills in when something changes.
Read from Neon's own pricing page, dated on the day we read it. We only claim a change happened between two dates we actually looked, never on a date we did not.
Engine
Postgres
Free tier
0.5 GB, 100 compute-hours
Self-host
Source is Apache 2.0, but not practical to run yourself
Auth and storage built in
No, database only
Scales to zero
Yes, that is the point
Portability
Standard Postgres, dump and go
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