Neon Pricing: Free Plan With 100 Projects, Typical Spend $15/Month

Built around Lakebase Postgres, by Databricks
Infra for app-generation agents like Replit & v0
Deploy isolated backends for your end users
Get started for free. Pay per usage as you grow.
Build and learn free with no time limits and no credit card required.
100 CU-hrs monthly per project
1 GB of storage per project
Sizes up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM)
Unlimited team members
5 GB of Object Storage
Sizes up to 16 CU (64 GB RAM)
3-day metrics/logs in UI
Sizes up to 56 CU (224 GB RAM)
SLAs, HIPAA, private network
Custom rates and limits for thousands of databases.
Launch faster with up to $100k in credits.
Sponsorship for the open source you maintain.
Last updated on November 4, 2026
Neon’s storage is multi-AZ by default, without the need for HA standbys.
Create instant copy-on-write branches of your database, with auth, Object Storage, and Functions branching alongside it, for previews, tests, and agents.
Compute adjusts to load and scales to zero when idle, including on the Free plan.
Up to 10,000 pooled connections per compute with built-in PgBouncer, and read replicas without added storage costs.
Add extensions like pgvector, PostGIS, TimescaleDB, and many more.
Authentication based on Better Auth that stores users in your database and branches with it.
Query your database over HTTP with a managed REST API, no backend server required.
S3-style Object Storage and Functions in every project, with Free plan allowances, plus Realtime in beta.
Neon is ISO 27001 and 27701 certified, SOC 2 audited, and GDPR and CCPA compliant. HIPAA is available on Scale. See our Security page.
Alongside Lakebase Postgres, every Neon project can use Managed Better Auth, the Data API, Object Storage, Functions, AI Gateway, and Realtime (in beta). Together they form a backend that runs next to your database: Auth, Object Storage, Functions, and AI Gateway branch with it. Every service is available on every plan, including Free. On Free, AI Gateway needs a card and prepaid credits, and your plan stays Free.
A project in Neon is the top-level container for your environment. Each project includes all branches, with your Postgres databases and (if you deploy them) your Object Storage buckets, Functions, Managed Better Auth endpoints, and AI Gateway access.
A CU (short for Compute Unit) is Neon's way of representing Postgres database compute size. Neon databases autoscale, and CUs define how much CPU and memory your database is using at any moment. Each CU allocates approximately 4 GB of RAM, along with associated CPU.
A CU-hour is Neon's unit for measuring Postgres database compute usage. Because Neon databases scale to zero and autoscale, you're billed only for the database compute resources you actually use. In other words, your monthly database compute usage depends on:
For a single compute, the calculation works like this:
The CU-hour price depends on your pricing plan:
Remember that when your database is idle, compute can scale down to zero, so you don't consume CU-hours while it's not running. Learn more about Neon's billing.
On the Free plan, each project gets 100 CU-hours of database compute per month, and compute automatically scales down to zero when idle. What this means in practice:
A realistic example for a single project:
This model is designed to make it practical to have many small or intermittent databases (for development, demos, previews, or experiments) without being forced into an upgrade. Learn more about our Free plan philosophy.
The Free plan is permanent, not a trial, and doesn't require a credit card. Most limits are per project, and none of them delete your data:
Upgrading to a paid plan lifts these limits immediately. If you'd rather not upgrade yet and need more room, reach out to us about credits. We're happy to support developers and startups.
Yes. Claimable Neon gives you, or an AI agent working for you, an instant Postgres project with no account and no credit card. Claim it to a Neon account within 72 hours to keep it. Unclaimed projects are capped at 100 MB of storage and 1 GB of network transfer. See the reference.