Neon's Free plan went from one member per organization to unlimited members. Source ↗
increasedeffective 2025-12-19medium impact
Neon raised the Free plan's project limit from 80 to 100, the last of seven increases since 2025-08-29, when the limit was 10. Source ↗
increasedeffective 2025-12-12medium impact
Neon made Neon Auth available on all plans, including Free. Source ↗
increasedeffective 2025-09-19medium impact
Neon doubled the Free plan's compute from 50 to 100 CU-hours per project a month. Source ↗
restructuredeffective 2025-08-14medium impact
Neon moved its paid Launch and Scale plans to usage-based pricing with a $5 monthly minimum. The Free plan went from 0.5 GB of storage and 191.9 compute hours per account to 0.5 GB and 50 CU-hours per project, across up to 10 projects. Source ↗
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-09-15: CockroachDB stopped offering its free Basic plan (50 million RUs and 10 GiB of storage free per month) to new deployments on 2026-09-15, when it moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing. New Cloud organizations now get a 30-day free trial with $400 in credit. Clusters created before 2026-09-15 stay on their existing plans during their current term. Source: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/cockroachdb/pricing/
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Trial" is a trial that expires, not an ongoing free tier.
All Free Alternatives (19)
17 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 2 are demoted with the reason named, and 0 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.
Left out of this list: MongoDB Atlas (shares no subtype with this product), Upstash (shares no subtype with this product), Databricks (Lakeflow Connect) (none of this category's subtypes apply), Cloudflare KV (shares no subtype with this product), Momento (shares no subtype with this product), DynamoDB Local (runs only on a developer machine), Redis Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Prisma Accelerate (extends another product), Weaviate (shares no subtype with this product), Zilliz Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), LanceDB (shares no subtype with this product), Upstash Vector (shares no subtype with this product), Chroma (shares no subtype with this product), Turbopuffer (shares no subtype with this product), Gel (we have not classified this record), Neo4j AuraDB (shares no subtype with this product), InfluxDB Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Hasura (extends another product), Couchbase Capella (shares no subtype with this product), restdb.io (shares no subtype with this product), SeaTable (none of this category's subtypes apply), skyvia.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), StackBy (none of this category's subtypes apply), Google Cloud BigQuery (shares no subtype with this product), PlanetScale (we have not classified this record). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.
−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-16, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-09-15: CockroachDB stopped offering its free Basic plan (50 million RUs and 10 GiB of storage free per month) to new deployments on 2026-09-15, when it moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing. New Cloud organizations now get a 30-day free trial with $400 in credit. Clusters created before 2026-09-15 stay on their existing plans during their current term. Source: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/cockroachdb/pricing/
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Trial" is a trial that expires, not an ongoing free tier.
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 19 free alternatives to Neon, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 17 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 2 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Neon's free tier still available?
Yes, Neon currently offers a free tier (Free). One recorded pricing restructure narrowed the terms, on 2025-08-14.
How many free alternatives to Neon exist?
There are 19 free alternatives to Neon tracked on AgentDeals across the Databases category.
Has Neon changed their pricing?
Neon has 5 recorded pricing changes. The most recent was on 2026-03-13: Neon's Free plan went from one member per organization to unlimited members. Source: https://neon.com/docs/changelog/2026-03-13
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