Cloud & Infrastructure · pricing
Neon pricing
Neon publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Neon 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 |
| Launch | $15/month | 3 | +$15/month, 3 more features |
| Scale | $31/month | 3 | +$16/month, 3 more features |
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 100 cu-hours/month, 0.5 gb storage, 1 project.
Launch
$15/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Pay-as-you-go compute
- $0.35/GB storage
- Multiple projects
Scale
$31/monthOver Launch, this tier adds:
- Higher compute rates
- 99.95% SLA
- HIPAA compliance
Where Neon stops being free
Free, Free
- 100 CU-hours/month
- 0.5 GB storage
- 1 project
Launch, $15/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Pay-as-you-go compute
- $0.35/GB storage
- Multiple projects
What the product covers
The full Neon 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.
Core
- Serverless PostgreSQL
- Database Branching
- Autoscaling
- Bottomless Storage
- Point-in-time Recovery
- Connection Pooling
- Read Replicas
- Instant Cloning
Integrations
- Vercel
- Prisma
- Drizzle
- Django
- Rails
- Node.js
Security
- SOC2
- GDPR
- TLS
- Data Encryption
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
- Cli support
People bring Neon in for serverless applications, development databases, preview environments, testing. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Neon are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud & Infrastructure
Too few cloud & infrastructure 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neon (this page) | Free | - | - | |
| DigitalOcean | Free, then $4/month | usage-based | - | vs Neon |
| Chef | Free | open-source | - | vs Neon |
| Alibaba Cloud | Free | usage-based | - | vs Neon |
| Lambda (AWS Serverless) | Free | usage-based | - | vs Neon |
| Contabo | €4.5/month | - | - | vs Neon |
| Akamai | $1000/month | quote | - | vs Neon |
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 Neon badges page.
Before you pay for Neon
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: 3 tiers between Free and $31/month, 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.
Neon runs on cloud, and is published by Neon Inc of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Neon review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud & infrastructure tools.
Neon pricing questions
- How much does Neon cost?
- Neon publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $31/month for Scale. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Neon have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 100 cu-hours/month, 0.5 gb storage, 1 project. Paying starts at $15/month for Launch.
- What is the difference between Free and Launch on Neon?
- Launch costs $15/month against Free, and adds pay-as-you-go compute, $0.35/gb storage, multiple projects.
- Is the Scale plan on Neon worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is higher compute rates, 99.95% sla, hipaa compliance. It costs $31/month against $15/month for Launch. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which cloud & infrastructure tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud & infrastructure tools listed alongside Neon have a free tier: DigitalOcean, Chef, Alibaba Cloud, Lambda (AWS Serverless), AWS (Amazon Web Services).
- What am I actually paying for with Neon?
- The record lists 22 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for serverless applications, development databases, preview environments.
- Does Neon charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 Neon 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 Neon against before paying?
- The closest cloud & infrastructure tools in this directory are DigitalOcean, Chef, Alibaba Cloud, Lambda (AWS Serverless). Each has a side-by-side comparison with Neon covering price, platforms and features.