Compare Neon and Supabase free tiers side by side. Pricing, limits, change history, and risk assessment for developers.

Neon vs Supabase

Side-by-side free tier comparison. Catalogue dates here run to 2026-09-13.

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Verdict

Both Neon and Supabase offer free tiers. Neon provides "Free" while Supabase offers "Free".

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Neon

Riskstable
CategoryDatabases
TierFree
Verified2026-09-13
Last read2026-09-13
Changes5 recorded
Serverless Postgres with branching — free tier includes 100 CU-hours/month per project, 0.5 GB storage per project, up to 100 projects, 10 branches per project, Neon Auth (60K MAU), auto-scaling up to 2 CU, scale-to-zero, 5 GB of Object Storage, and Functions (10 active capacity-hours, 400 waiting capacity-hours, 1M invocations)

Supabase

Riskstable
CategoryDatabases
TierFree
Verified2026-08-17
Last read2026-09-19
Changes1 recorded
Postgres development platform: database, Auth, Storage, Realtime and Edge Functions. The Free plan is $0: unlimited API requests, 50,000 monthly active users, a 500 MB database on a shared CPU with 500 MB RAM, 5 GB egress plus 5 GB cached egress, 1 GB file storage, 500,000 Edge Function invocations, and Realtime with 200 concurrent connections and 2 million messages a month. Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity, with a limit of 2 active projects. Pro starts at $25 a month for the first project and includes $10 a month of compute credits, enough for one Micro instance.

Pricing Change History

Neon

increased effective 2026-03-13 medium impact
Neon's Free plan went from one member per organization to unlimited members. Source ↗
increased effective 2025-12-19 medium 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 ↗
increased effective 2025-12-12 medium impact
Neon made Neon Auth available on all plans, including Free. Source ↗
increased effective 2025-09-19 medium impact
Neon doubled the Free plan's compute from 50 to 100 CU-hours per project a month. Source ↗
restructured effective 2025-08-14 medium 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 ↗

Supabase

reduced effective 2026-02-01 medium impact
Project pause policy tightened — inactive projects now pause after 1 week Source ↗

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