# Neon

Serverless Postgres that branches like git

- Site: https://neon.com
- Category: Databases
- Best for: Teams who want a real database branch on every preview deploy
- 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.
- Rating: fewer than 3 reviews, so none is published
- Pricing checked: 2026-08-28

## Tiers

- **Free**, $0/mo: 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**, price not published: 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**, price not published: 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

## Good

- Database branching, so every preview deploy can have its own copy of the data
- Compute scales to zero, so an idle project costs nothing at all
- No monthly minimum on paid plans; months under $0.50 are not billed

## Not good

- Owned by Databricks since 2025, so you are betting on somebody else's roadmap for it
- Usage-based billing with no floor is harder to forecast than a flat fee
- The free plan suspends compute for the rest of the month once you hit a limit, rather than slowing down

## Specifics

- 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

## Price history

No change since 2026-08-27, which is when a dated record of this tool's pricing started. If you are asked whether Neon has got more expensive, the answer is no, not in that window.

## Sources

- https://neon.com
- https://neon.com/pricing
- https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans
- https://databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-agrees-acquire-neon-help-developers-deliver-ai-systems

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