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Neon

Serverless Postgres platform with autoscaling, branching, and scale-to-zero

Free tier 3 tiers drop-in PostgreSQL wire protocol Fresh Transparency: A
View Pricing Page → Verified 2026-10-11
Neon publishes an official pricing.md file — machine-readable pricing for AI agents and developer tools.

Pricing Tiers

Tier Price Includes Overage
Free
free
Free
egress: 5 GB
Projects: 100
Branches Per Project: 10
Max Compute CU: 2
Restore Window Hours: 6
Monitoring Retention Days: 1
+4 more
—
Launch
usage based
Free
extra-branches: 10 branches
egress: 100 GB
Projects: 100
Branches Per Project: 10
Max Compute CU: 16
Restore Window Days: 7
Monitoring Retention Days: 3
+2 more
compute: $0.106 per CU-hours
storage: $0.35 per GB-month
extra-branches: $1.5 per branches
instant-restore: $0.2 per GB-month
egress: $0.1 per GB
Scale
usage based
Free
extra-branches: 25 branches
egress: 100 GB
Projects: 1,000
Branches Per Project: 25
Max Compute CU: 56
Restore Window Days: 30
Monitoring Retention Days: 14
+2 more
compute: $0.222 per CU-hours
storage: $0.35 per GB-month
extra-branches: $1.5 per branches
instant-restore: $0.2 per GB-month
egress: $0.1 per GB
private-network-transfer: $0.01 per GB

Portability

Switching Cost
drop-in
Open Standard
PostgreSQL wire protocol
What You Lose
Serverless autoscaling, scale-to-zero, database branching, instant restore, Neon Auth

Transparency Score

A
100/100
Pricing Transparency Score
Neon Pricing Transparency: A
Score breakdown
✓ Publishes pricing.md
30/30
✓ Free tier available
10/10
✓ All prices public
15/15
✓ Usage pricing documented
15/15
✓ Portability documented
10/10
✓ Open standard
10/10
✓ Recently verified
10/10

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