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Limits, pricing history, and 18 alternatives. Verified October 2026. Last updated 2026-10-28.

Neon's free tier offers Serverless Postgres with branching — free tier includes 100 CU-hours/month per project, 1 GB of Postgres storage per… We rate it stable. One recorded pricing restructure narrowed the terms, on 2025-08-14. Best for databases workloads — 18 alternatives available.

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Free Tier Details

Serverless Postgres with branching — free tier includes 100 CU-hours/month per project, 1 GB of Postgres storage per project (20 GB total across all projects), 5 GB of public network transfer per project per month, 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). No credit card is required. The AI Gateway (one Neon credential for models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others) is available on every plan, including Free. It requires a card and a $5 minimum purchase of prepaid credits in the Neon Console. The Free plan otherwise remains unchanged. Model prices match each provider's list price with no markup.

We read that on 2026-10-28 from https://neon.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Neon as "neon" and states "$0".

Neon's Free plan needs no credit card. (From neon.com/pricing, read 2026-10-22.)
An agent can create a Neon Postgres project without a Neon account. Unclaimed projects expire in 72 hours and are limited to 100 MB storage and 1 GB transfer. A person claims the project to keep it. (From neon.com/docs/reference/claimable-neon, read 2026-10-22.)
On the Free plan, scale to zero can't be disabled: computes suspend after 5 minutes of inactivity. (From neon.com/docs/introduction/plans, read 2026-10-04.)
Neon doesn't pause Free projects for inactivity: an idle database starts again on the next query, with no restore step. (From neon.com/pricing, read 2026-11-01.)
Running out of CU-hours or network transfer suspends the compute until the next billing period or an upgrade. (From neon.com/docs/introduction/plans, read 2026-10-04.)
Neon's Free plan provides 100 CU-hours per project per month. One CU allocates about 4 GB of RAM, and 100 CU-hours is enough to run a 0.25 CU compute (about 1 GB of RAM) for 400 hours, about 17 days of continuous running. All computes in a project count toward usage, including those for each branch and any read replicas. (From neon.com/docs/introduction/plans, read 2026-11-03.)
At the storage cap, inserts, updates and deletes fail until space is freed or the plan is upgraded. (From neon.com/docs/introduction/plans, read 2026-10-04.)
Neon's Azure East US 2, West US 3, and Germany West Central regions no longer accept new projects as of April 7, 2026; Free-plan projects there inactive for 90+ days may be deleted after October 5, 2026. (From neon.com/docs/import/azure-regions-deprecation, read 2026-10-07.)
Platforms that create databases for their users can apply for the Agent Plan. You must have a Neon Scale plan with a credit card on file and get Neon's approval. Neon sponsors the databases for your free-tier users. Paid usage gets up to $25,000 in credits and compute at $0.106 per compute-unit hour. (From neon.com/docs/introduction/agent-plan.md, read 2026-10-11.)
Neon gives $20 in free credits to try paid features, claimed through a promo link in the Neon Console. (From neon.com/pricing.md, read 2026-10-11.)
Neon's pricing page offers startups up to $100k in credits. The startup page describes the Databricks Startup Program, up to $200K in credits for Neon and Databricks for qualifying startups. (From neon.com/startups, read 2026-10-11.)
Neon's open source programme: Neon reviews each application and decides per project whether to support it with a monthly cash sponsorship through GitHub Sponsors, Neon credits, or both, and how much. Cash sponsorships come from a pool of at least $200,000 a year and run for six-month terms that do not renew automatically. Supported projects can receive up to $5,000 in Neon credits and up to $5,000 in Neon AI Gateway credits. It requires an OSI-approved license and a GitHub Sponsors profile. (From neon.com/programs/open-source.md, read 2026-10-29.)
After the free plan, Neon's paid plans bill only for usage, with no monthly minimum: Launch charges $0.106 per CU-hour of compute and Scale $0.222, both charge $0.35 per GB-month of storage, extra branches cost $1.50 per branch-month, and network transfer beyond 500 GB per project costs $0.10 per GB. (From neon.com/pricing.md, read 2026-10-15.)
Neon Realtime has been in public beta since 2026-10-15. It provides live updates from SQL queries without polling and is free during the beta. Compute and egress are billed under the plan; beta runs in four AWS regions: us-east-1, us-east-2, eu-central-1 and ap-southeast-1. (From neon.com/docs/realtime/overview, read 2026-10-16.)
Neon archives branches older than 14 days and not accessed for 24 hours. Unarchiving happens automatically when a branch is connected to or queried. Branches with large amounts of data may connect and query slower while unarchiving. (From neon.com/docs/guides/branch-archiving, read 2026-10-29.)

When You'll Outgrow Neon's Free Tier

At 60K MAU, you'll need to upgrade.
At 100 projects, you'll need to upgrade.
At that point, the 18 alternatives in Databases are each listed with the free tier they offer, so you can compare what they give you against what you have outgrown.

Pricing Change History (8 recorded)

increased effective 2026-10-01 medium impact

Neon raised the Free plan's Postgres storage from 0.5 GB to 1 GB per project and added a limit of 20 GB across all of an account's projects. Source ↗

Before: Free: 0.5 GB of storage per project, up to 100 projects. "The Free plan is limited to 0.5 GB per project." (Neon's plans docs, Internet Archive capture of 2026-09-26)

After: "The Free plan is limited to 1 GB of Postgres storage per project, and to 20 GB in total across all your projects." (neon.com/docs/introduction/plans). Neon's docs change "update Free plan storage limit" merged on 2026-10-01.

corrected effective 2026-09-26 low impact

Data correction - Neon made no pricing change on 2026-01-15. Usage-based paid plans and per-project Free storage date from 2025-08-14, the Free project limit reached 100 on 2025-12-19, and Neon Auth reached Free on 2025-12-12. Free has had 10 branches per project throughout. Source ↗

Before: Recorded 2026-02-26 as: Moved to fully usage-based pricing model post-Databricks acquisition, free tier storage now per-project, projects increased 10 to 100, branches capped at 10 per project, Neon Auth added, dated 2026-01-15

After: "Starting today, our paid plans are fully usage-based." (Neon, 2025-08-14). Five dated records replace the one.

increased effective 2026-03-13 medium impact

Neon's Free plan went from one member per organization to unlimited members. Source ↗

Before: Free: one member per organization

After: "You can now add unlimited members to each organization on the Free plan."

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 ↗

Before: Free: up to 80 projects (10 before 2025-08-29)

After: Free: up to 100 projects. "Another week, yet another increase" (Neon's changelog, 2025-12-19).

increased effective 2025-12-12 medium impact

Neon made Neon Auth available on all plans, including Free. Source ↗

Before: Free: Neon Auth in beta, with no published allowance of monthly active users

After: "Neon Auth is available on all plans, including Free." Neon's pricing page gives Free up to 60,000 monthly active users.

increased effective 2025-12-09 medium impact

Neon removed the $5 monthly minimum from its paid Launch and Scale plans, which now bill only for what you use. Source ↗

Before: Launch and Scale: usage-based with a $5 monthly minimum. "For Launch and Scale, the minimum monthly fee is $5." (Neon's plans docs, Internet Archive capture of 2025-12-01)

After: "On Launch and Scale plans, you pay only for what you use; there's no minimum monthly fee." (neon.com/docs/introduction/plans). Neon's pricing page dropped the minimum on 2025-12-09, and its changelog of 2025-12-12 says: "We've removed the $5 monthly minimum from our paid plans."

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 ↗

Before: Free: 50 CU-hours a month per project

After: "100 CU-hours of monthly compute (up from 50)"

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 ↗

Before: Free: 0.5 GB of storage and 191.9 compute hours a month per account, 10 projects, instant restore up to 24 hours. Launch and Scale at fixed monthly fees.

After: "Instead of 0.5 GB total, you now get 0.5 GB of storage per project in the Free Plan, up to 5 GB across 10 projects." Free: 50 CU-hours a month per project, instant restore up to 6 hours or 1 GB of changes. Launch and Scale usage-based with a $5 monthly minimum.

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Alternatives in Databases

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Service	Free Tier	Stability
Neon	Free	stable
Convex	Free Reactive backend — 1M function calls/month, 0.5 GB database + vector storage, 1 GB file storage, real-time sync	stable
codehooks.io	Free The free plan includes 1 Developer, API/Functions: 1/sec, 500/day, 1 Worker per queue, Worker timeout 30s, 150 MB Database Storage, 1 GB File Storage, 1 Space Chat and Email Support. No Credit Card Required.	caution
CrateDB	Free (CRFREE) Distributed SQL database for time-series and IoT — free cloud tier (CRFREE): 2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM, 8 GB storage. One free cluster per org.	stable
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL	Free Tier Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless on AWS Free Tier — managed PostgreSQL-compatible database with automatic scaling. Free plan: up to 4 ACUs and 1 GiB of storage per cluster, paid from AWS credits ($100 at sign-up, up to $100 more).	stable
filess.io	Free filess.io is a platform where you can create two databases with up to 10 MB per database of the following DBMS for free: MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.	stable
SurrealDB Cloud	Free Multi-model cloud database — The 'Start' plan offers 1GB of storage free, forever, and a free compute instance with 0.25 vCPU and 1 GB memory ($0.000/hr). Further instances are available from $0.021/hr.	stable
Supabase	Free 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…	stable
Xata	Free Open-source Postgres platform (Apache 2.0) with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero. Self-hosted on Kubernetes — free forever.	stable
Firebase	Spark Spark plan, no payment method needed: Auth (50K MAU), Firestore Standard edition (1 GiB stored, 50K reads/day, 20K writes/day, 20K deletes/day), Realtime Database (100 simultaneous connections, 1 GB stored, 10 GB/month downloaded), Hosting (10 GB storage, 360 MB/day transfer), and no-cost…	caution
Aiven	Free Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey (Redis-compatible), Apache Kafka, or OpenSearch — one free service of each type per organization. PostgreSQL and MySQL: 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB disk; PostgreSQL has 20 connections and no connection pooling.	stable
Turso	Free Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free. On 2026-10-02 Turso announced that Supabase is acquiring it.	stable
Cloudflare D1	Free SQLite at the edge — 5M rows read/day, 100K rows written/day, 5 GB total storage. Resets daily at midnight UTC On the Free plan, once the account reaches its daily read or write limit, D1 refuses queries and returns errors until the limits reset at 00:00 UTC; upgrading to Workers Paid removes the limits. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-20.) On the Free plan a single D1 database can hold at most 500 MB, and an account can have at most 10 databases, within the 5 GB account total. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/limits, read 2026-10-20.) Cloudflare D1's free plan needs no credit card. (From cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/d1, read 2026-10-22.) D1 usage past Free limits requires the Workers Paid plan. That plan has a minimum charge of $5 per month per account. (From developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.) The Workers Paid plan includes 25 billion rows read, 50 million rows written, and 5 GB storage monthly. Rows read overage is $0.001 per million. Rows written overage is $1.00 per million. Storage overage is $0.75 per GB-mo. There are no egress charges. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.) Time Travel restores a database from up to 30 days ago on Workers Paid and 7 days on Free. The paid plan has a 10 GB maximum database size and 1 TB storage per account. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.)	stable
Nile	Free Postgres for multi-tenant apps — 1 GB storage, 50M serverless query tokens, 500 max connections. Unlimited databases and tenant DBs.	stable
Nhost	Free Open-source backend with Postgres and Hasura GraphQL, plus Auth, Storage and Functions. The Starter plan is $0 a month: 1 GB database, 1 GB storage and 5 GB egress, with functions, realtime APIs and unlimited users.	stable
PocketBase	Free Open-source backend in a single Go binary — SQLite database, real-time subscriptions, built-in auth (email, OAuth2), file storage (S3-compatible), REST API. Completely free and self-hosted, no vendor lock-in.	source unconfirmed
Appwrite Cloud	Free Open-source BaaS — 75K MAU, 2 GB storage, 750K function executions/month, 5 GB bandwidth, 1 database, 1 bucket and 2 functions per project, 500K database reads and 250K writes a month. Limit of 2 projects. The Free plan's resources are shared across the account's 2 projects, which draw on one allowance. Paid plans give each project its own resources. (From appwrite.io/docs/advanced/billing/free, read 2026-10-11.) A Free project with no development activity in the Appwrite Console for 7 days is paused. User traffic does not prevent pausing. The project becomes inaccessible to users and stops running backups, cron jobs, and scheduled functions until reactivated in the Console. (From appwrite.io/changelog/entry/2026-02-20-1, read 2026-10-11.) Free projects are deleted after 90 days paused. (From appwrite.io/changelog/entry/2026-06-29, read 2026-10-05.) From October 19, 2026, cron schedules for functions on Appwrite Cloud need a paid plan. On the Free and Education plans, functions run only on an interval of 60 minutes or longer. Existing cron schedules become intervals close to how often they ran. (From appwrite.io/changelog/entry/2026-10-15-1, read 2026-10-19.) If a Free project reaches any resource limit, such as function executions or monthly active users, it freezes and the Console becomes read-only until the next billing cycle, or the owner upgrades to Pro or removes the resources over the limit. (From appwrite.io/pricing, read 2026-10-05.) From November 5, 2026, Appwrite Cloud deletes inactive function and site deployments more than 30 days old by default. A deployment's age counts from the day it was created. The active deployment and any deployment a custom domain points to are kept. On the Free plan, retention can be raised to at most 90 days and each function or site keeps at most its 100 newest inactive deployments. (From appwrite.io/blog/post/default-deployment-retention, read 2026-10-22.) On the Free plan, inactive deployments count toward the same 2 GB of storage as files and databases. (From appwrite.io/blog/post/default-deployment-retention, read 2026-10-22.) Pro starts at $25 a month. It includes one project with 2TB bandwidth, 150GB storage, 3.5M executions and 200K monthly active users. Each additional project costs $15. (From appwrite.io/pricing, read 2026-10-29.) Additional API bandwidth costs $15 per 100GB a month. Additional storage costs $2.8 per 100GB. Additional executions cost $2 per 1m. Additional users cost $3 per 1,000 users. Additional reads cost $0.060 per 100k and writes $0.10 per 100k. (From appwrite.io/pricing, read 2026-10-29.) On Pro, Appwrite automatically buys extra resources when an organization exceeds its limits. The budget cap limits how much it can scale. (From appwrite.io/docs/advanced/billing/pro, read 2026-10-29.)	caution
8base.com	Free 8base is a full-stack low-code development platform built for JavaScript developers built on top of MySQL and GraphQL and serverless backend-as-a-service. It allows you to start building web applications quickly using a UI app builder and scale quickly, The Free tier includes rows: 2,500, Storage:…	unrated
CockroachDB	Trial Distributed SQL database. No free plan for new deployments since 2026-09-15, when CockroachDB moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing.	risky

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), Cloudflare Vectorize (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in Databases, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Neon free?

Yes, Neon offers a free tier: Free. Serverless Postgres with branching — free tier includes 100 CU-hours/month per project, 1 GB of Postgres storage per project (20 GB total across all projects), 5 GB of public network transfer per proj...

What is Neon's free tier?

Neon's free tier is called "Free". Serverless Postgres with branching — free tier includes 100 CU-hours/month per project, 1 GB of Postgres storage per project (20 GB total across all projects), 5 GB of public network transfer per project per month, 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). No credit card is required. The AI Gateway (one Neon credential for models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others) is available on every plan, including Free. It requires a card and a $5 minimum purchase of prepaid credits in the Neon Console. The Free plan otherwise remains unchanged. Model prices match each provider's list price with no markup. Neon's Free plan needs no credit card. (From https://neon.com/pricing, read 2026-10-22.) An agent can create a Neon Postgres project without a Neon account. Unclaimed projects expire in 72 hours and are limited to 100 MB storage and 1 GB transfer. A person claims the project to keep it. (From https://neon.com/docs/reference/claimable-neon, read 2026-10-22.) On the Free plan, scale to zero can't be disabled: computes suspend after 5 minutes of inactivity. (From https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans, read 2026-10-04.) Neon doesn't pause Free projects for inactivity: an idle database starts again on the next query, with no restore step. (From https://neon.com/pricing, read 2026-11-01.) Running out of CU-hours or network transfer suspends the compute until the next billing period or an upgrade. (From https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans, read 2026-10-04.) Neon's Free plan provides 100 CU-hours per project per month. One CU allocates about 4 GB of RAM, and 100 CU-hours is enough to run a 0.25 CU compute (about 1 GB of RAM) for 400 hours, about 17 days of continuous running. All computes in a project count toward usage, including those for each branch and any read replicas. (From https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans, read 2026-11-03.) At the storage cap, inserts, updates and deletes fail until space is freed or the plan is upgraded. (From https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans, read 2026-10-04.) Neon's Azure East US 2, West US 3, and Germany West Central regions no longer accept new projects as of April 7, 2026; Free-plan projects there inactive for 90+ days may be deleted after October 5, 2026. (From https://neon.com/docs/import/azure-regions-deprecation, read 2026-10-07.) Platforms that create databases for their users can apply for the Agent Plan. You must have a Neon Scale plan with a credit card on file and get Neon's approval. Neon sponsors the databases for your free-tier users. Paid usage gets up to $25,000 in credits and compute at $0.106 per compute-unit hour. (From https://neon.com/docs/introduction/agent-plan.md, read 2026-10-11.) Neon gives $20 in free credits to try paid features, claimed through a promo link in the Neon Console. (From https://neon.com/pricing.md, read 2026-10-11.) Neon's pricing page offers startups up to $100k in credits. The startup page describes the Databricks Startup Program, up to $200K in credits for Neon and Databricks for qualifying startups. (From https://neon.com/startups, read 2026-10-11.) Neon's open source programme: Neon reviews each application and decides per project whether to support it with a monthly cash sponsorship through GitHub Sponsors, Neon credits, or both, and how much. Cash sponsorships come from a pool of at least $200,000 a year and run for six-month terms that do not renew automatically. Supported projects can receive up to $5,000 in Neon credits and up to $5,000 in Neon AI Gateway credits. It requires an OSI-approved license and a GitHub Sponsors profile. (From https://neon.com/programs/open-source.md, read 2026-10-29.) After the free plan, Neon's paid plans bill only for usage, with no monthly minimum: Launch charges $0.106 per CU-hour of compute and Scale $0.222, both charge $0.35 per GB-month of storage, extra branches cost $1.50 per branch-month, and network transfer beyond 500 GB per project costs $0.10 per GB. (From https://neon.com/pricing.md, read 2026-10-15.) Neon Realtime has been in public beta since 2026-10-15. It provides live updates from SQL queries without polling and is free during the beta. Compute and egress are billed under the plan; beta runs in four AWS regions: us-east-1, us-east-2, eu-central-1 and ap-southeast-1. (From https://neon.com/docs/realtime/overview, read 2026-10-16.) Neon archives branches older than 14 days and not accessed for 24 hours. Unarchiving happens automatically when a branch is connected to or queried. Branches with large amounts of data may connect and query slower while unarchiving. (From https://neon.com/docs/guides/branch-archiving, read 2026-10-29.)

Is Neon's free tier reliable?

Neon's free tier is considered stable. One recorded pricing restructure narrowed the terms, on 2025-08-14. See the pricing history below.

Is Neon's free tier good for production?

Neon's free tier can be suitable for small production workloads and side projects. We rate it stable and it offers Serverless Postgres with branching — free tier includes 100 CU-hours/month per project, 1 GB of Postgres storage per…, so it's a reasonable starting point. One recorded pricing restructure narrowed the terms, on 2025-08-14. Monitor your usage against the limits and have an upgrade plan ready.

What changed in Neon's pricing?

Neon has had 7 recorded pricing changes. Most recently: Neon raised the Free plan's Postgres storage from 0.5 GB to 1 GB per project and added a limit of 20 GB across all of an account's projects. Source: https://github.com/neondatabase/website/pull/5981 (2026-10-01).

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 18 free alternatives to Neon in Databases, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 14 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 4 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

When will I outgrow Neon's free tier?

At 60K MAU, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.

What category is Neon in?

Neon is categorized under Databases on AgentDeals. We list 18 other Databases services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.