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Neo4j pricing
Neo4j publishes 5 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, Neo4j pricing is free across 5 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 5
- Free tier
- Yes
Neo4j plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Community Edition | Free | 3 | +$0/month, 3 more features |
| AuraDB Professional | $65/GB/month | 5 | +$65/GB/month, 5 more features |
| AuraDB Business Critical | $146/GB/month | 8 | +$81/GB/month, 8 more features |
| Virtual Dedicated Cloud | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers learning and exploration access, no credit card required, all graph tools included.
Community Edition
FreeOver Free, this tier adds:
- Free, GPL3-licensed
- Community-based support
- Unlimited local use
AuraDB Professional
$65/GB/monthOver Community Edition, this tier adds:
- 1GB minimum cluster
- Hourly billing available ($0.09/hour for 1GB)
- Daily backups with 7-day retention
- Single-zone availability
- Support: Best-effort
AuraDB Business Critical
$146/GB/monthOver AuraDB Professional, this tier adds:
- 2GB minimum cluster
- Hourly billing available ($0.40/hour for 2GB)
- Up to 512GB maximum
- Daily backups with 30-day retention
- Hourly point-in-time recovery
- 99.95% uptime SLA
- 24/7 premium support with one-hour response
- Multi-zone availability
Virtual Dedicated Cloud
On requestOver AuraDB Business Critical, this tier adds:
- Custom pricing via sales contact
- Dedicated VPC infrastructure
- Hourly backups with 60-day retention
- Enhanced 24/7 support
Where Neo4j stops being free
Free, Free
- Learning and exploration access
- No credit card required
- All graph tools included
AuraDB Professional, $65/GB/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 1GB minimum cluster
- Hourly billing available ($0.09/hour for 1GB)
- Daily backups with 7-day retention
- Single-zone availability
- Support: Best-effort
What the product covers
The full Neo4j feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Native Graph Storage
- Cypher Query Language
- ACID Transactions
- High Availability
- Graph Data Science
- Full-text Search
- Native Indexes
Integrations
- GraphQL
- Spring Data
- Apache Spark
- Kafka
- GDS Library
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Mac support
- Docker support
- Web support
People bring Neo4j in for graph database for learning and exploration, production workloads requiring high availability and multi-zone redundancy, enterprise deployments needing custom infrastructure. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Neo4j are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Databases
Too few databases tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neo4j (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| Canary Labs | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | vs Neo4j |
| Presto | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Neo4j |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs Neo4j |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs Neo4j |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs Neo4j |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Neo4j |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Neo4j badges page.
Before you pay for Neo4j
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 5 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Neo4j runs on linux, windows, mac, docker, web, and is published by Neo4j Inc. of San Mateo, California. The full record is on the Neo4j review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
Neo4j pricing questions
- How much does Neo4j cost?
- Neo4j publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Virtual Dedicated Cloud. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Neo4j have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers learning and exploration access, no credit card required, all graph tools included. Paying starts at $65/GB/month for AuraDB Professional.
- What is the difference between Free and Community Edition on Neo4j?
- Community Edition costs Free against Free, and adds free, gpl3-licensed, community-based support, unlimited local use.
- Is the Virtual Dedicated Cloud plan on Neo4j worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom pricing via sales contact, dedicated vpc infrastructure, hourly backups with 60-day retention, enhanced 24/7 support. It costs On request against $65/GB/month for AuraDB Professional. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Neo4j have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with Neo4j?
- The record lists 17 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for graph database for learning and exploration, production workloads requiring high availability and multi-zone redundancy, enterprise deployments needing custom infrastructure.
- Does Neo4j charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Neo4j prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Neo4j against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Neo4j covering price, platforms and features.