Compare 19 free alternatives to Neon for Databases. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, each with the date we last verified it.

Best Neon Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

19 free alternatives in Databases. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Neon Situation

Risk Level: stable
Category: Databases
Pricing Page: neon.com/pricing

Recent Pricing Changes (1)

restructured effective 2026-01-15 medium impact
Moved to fully usage-based pricing model post-Databricks acquisition — free tier storage now per-project, projects increased 10→100, branches capped at 10 per project, Neon Auth added Source ↗
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Recommended Migration Targets

These alternatives were identified from Neon’s pricing changes as recommended replacements.

Free
Databases Read 2026-09-03 · catalogue date 2026-08-17
Turso stable recommended
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-01 · catalogue date 2026-08-11
CockroachDB stable recommended
Basic
Databases Read 2026-09-16 · confirmed 2026-09-02

All Free Alternatives (19)

18 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 1 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). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

Koyeb stable
Free (Database Only)
Databases Read 2026-09-16 · catalogue date 2026-08-13
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-03 · catalogue date 2026-08-17
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-11 · catalogue date 2026-07-15
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-05 · catalogue date 2026-08-23
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-05 · catalogue date 2026-08-23
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-07-15
Turso stable
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-01 · catalogue date 2026-08-11
filess.io stable
Free
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-09-11
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-05 · catalogue date 2026-08-22
Cloudflare D1 stable
Free
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-09-13
Aiven stable
Free
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-09-13
Free
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-09-10
CrateDB stable
Free (CRFREE)
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-09-13
Free Tier
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-09-03
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-16 · catalogue date 2026-08-11
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-07 · catalogue date 2026-08-25
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-03 · catalogue date 2026-08-20
CockroachDB stable
Basic
Databases Read 2026-09-16 · confirmed 2026-09-02
Firebase stable
Spark
Databases Read 2026-09-07 · catalogue date 2026-08-25
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded product deprecation on 2026-03-19: Firebase Studio (formerly Project IDX) shut down March 19, 2026. Cloud IDE and AI code generation features discontinued. Existing projects accessible until March 2027 for migration Source: https://firebase.google.com/docs/studio
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.
date
2026-09-17
query_key
alternative-to:Neon
seed
97290a4b1a9be6de7700f66f2004465cd7fd9e7211e0c220a64a0ef7c0c1bbd1
tie_count
18

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Neon?
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 date we last verified it. Of those, 18 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 1 is 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 2026-01-15.
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 1 recorded pricing change. The most recent was on 2026-01-15: Moved to fully usage-based pricing model post-Databricks acquisition — free tier storage now per-project, projects increased 10→100, branches capped at 10 per project, Neon Auth added Source: https://neon.com/pricing

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