About
Neon Serverless Postgres is a managed Postgres platform designed for modern application development, including AI apps, serverless workloads, and team-based database workflows. It separates compute and storage so databases can scale automatically, pause when idle, and resume quickly when needed.
The platform includes built-in capabilities that help teams build, test, and operate databases more efficiently. These include branching for isolated development environments, autoscaling, connection pooling, read replicas, authentication, monitoring, and support for common Postgres extensions.
- Serverless Postgres with automatic scaling and scale-to-zero behavior
- Database branching for development, testing, and previews
- Built-in authentication and connection pooling
- Read replicas, monitoring, and point-in-time restore capabilities
- Support for Postgres extensions and API-driven database management
Free Tier Value
Neon’s Free plan is explicitly $0 and says “Build and learn free with no time limits and no credit card required,” so no_cc_required is true. The free tier includes 100 projects, 100 CU-hours per project monthly, 0.5 GB storage per project, up to 2 CU, Neon Auth up to 60K MAUs, 6-hour time travel/restores, autoscaling, branching, read replicas, and unlimited team members. Because this is a capped recurring free tier and the page does not present a single paid-plan equivalent to prorate against for the free bundle, the conservative free_tier_value_usd_per_month is null; pricing is usage-based on paid plans, and feature parity is moderate since some higher-plan capabilities are gated.
What's included in the free tier
- Access to 100 projects.
- Includes 100 CU-hours per project monthly.
- Provides 0.5 GB storage per project.
- Supports database sizes up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM).
- Includes Neon Auth for up to 60K MAUs.
- Provides 6-hour time travel and restores.
- Includes Autoscaling, Branching, and Read Replicas.
- Allows unlimited team members.
See Neon Serverless Postgres pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Launch
- CU-hour
- $0.106 per CU-hour
- storage
- $0.35 per GB-month
- projects
- 100
- branches per project
- 10
- compute size
- Up to 16 CU (64 GB RAM)
- 100 projects
- All features in free, plus Neon Auth up to 1M MAUs
- 7-day time travel/restores
- 3-day metrics/logs in UI
Scale
- CU-hour
- $0.222 per CU-hour
- storage
- $0.35 per GB-month
- projects
- 1,000+
- branches per project
- 25
- compute size
- Up to 56 CU (224 GB RAM)
- 1,000+ projects
- All features in launch, plus 30-day time travel/restores
- 14-day metrics/logs in UI
- Metrics/logs export (Otel, Datadog)
- Private network and IP allow rules
- SLAs, SOC2, HIPAA
Pricing extracted from Neon Serverless Postgres's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
