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Neon

Serverless Postgres with branching, autoscaling, and usage-based pricing.

Neon is a managed database provider based in United States. It operates European infrastructure in Germany and Ireland. A free tier is available. As a US company it falls under the US CLOUD Act. Pricing on this page is published only after a human has reviewed it.

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United States
European regions
GermanyIreland
US CLOUD Act
US company
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Available
Free tier
The Free plan provides $0/month Postgres usage with no time limit and no credit card required.
VAT
Shown excluding VAT
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Pricing

4 plans
  • Free
    Includes 100 CU-hours per project monthly. Sizes up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM).
    Monthly
    0 USD
    vCPU
    Not listed
    Memory
    Not listed
    Storage
    0.5 GB
  • Launch
    Usage-based with no monthly minimum. Compute is $0.106 per CU-hour, database storage is $0.35 per GB-month, history storage is $0.20 per GB-month, and public network transfer includes 500 GB per project then costs $0.10/GB. Up to 16 CU (64 GB RAM).
    Monthly
    $0.106 per CU-hour
    vCPU
    Not listed
    Memory
    Not listed
    Storage
    Not listed
  • Scale
    Usage-based with no monthly minimum. Compute is $0.222 per CU-hour, database storage is $0.35 per GB-month, history storage is $0.20 per GB-month, snapshots and scheduled backups are $0.09/GB-month, and public network transfer includes 500 GB per project then costs $0.10/GB. Up to 56 CU (224 GB RAM).
    Monthly
    $0.222 per CU-hour
    vCPU
    Not listed
    Memory
    Not listed
    Storage
    Not listed
  • Free
    The comparison table also lists 100 projects and 10 branches per project.
    Monthly
    0 USD
    vCPU
    Not listed
    Memory
    Not listed
    Storage
    0.5 GB

Pros and cons

What works

  • Free plan has no time limit and requires no credit card.
  • Paid plans have no fixed fees or monthly minimums.
  • Compute scales to zero when idle.
  • Scale includes HIPAA, SOC 2 access, private networking, and an uptime SLA.

What to watch

  • Paid plans meter compute and storage from zero, without Free plan quotas.
  • Object Storage, Functions, and AI Gateway are beta services with evolving limits.
  • The Free plan has a limited history window and no stated uptime SLA.
  • Datacenter countries and data residency guarantees are not stated.

Specifications

Egress policy
Launch and Scale include 500 GB of public network transfer per project, then charge $0.10/GB. Private network transfer is included on Scale.
Parent company
Databricks
Certifications
ISO, HIPAA, SOC 2
Uptime sla
99.95% uptime guaranteed by SLA for all workloads in Scale.
Support
Free includes Community support through Discord. Launch includes Billing Support. Scale offers Multiple options.

About Neon

Neon provides Lakebase Postgres, a serverless database with branching, autoscaling, and scale to zero. It also offers Managed Better Auth, Object Storage, Functions, and AI Gateway, with the latter three listed as beta services. Neon became part of the Databricks Platform in May 2025, and paid plans have no fixed fees or monthly minimums.

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