Neon pricing
How Neon charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.
How it charges
Checked 2026-10-03 on neon.com ↗ · USD, list pricesFree covers 100 projects with 100 CU-hours and 1 GB of storage each; Launch is pure usage at $0.106 per CU-hour and $0.35 per GB-month, with no minimum.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Side project
- $20/mo Launch
- Growing
- $22/mo Launch
- Scaling
- $54/mo Launch
What the model leaves out
Compute hours are priced at the smallest compute size, 0.25 CU (1 GB RAM) — Launch charges $0.106 per CU-hour, so $0.0265 per hour at 0.25 CU; larger or autoscaled computes cost proportionally more. Free includes 100 CU-hours, 1 GB of storage and 5 GB of egress per project (400 hours at 0.25 CU), for up to 100 projects, and suspends compute when the hours run out. Scale plan ($0.222/CU-hour, same $0.35/GB-month storage) adds more features but always costs more, so it's left out. No monthly minimum on Launch.
- Compute scales to zero after 5 minutes idle; if you disable that on Launch, a database uses at least 187.5 CU-hours a month at the 0.25 CU minimum.
- Instant-restore history is billed at $0.20 per GB-month on top of storage, based on how much data changes in the history window.
- Branches beyond those included cost $0.002 per branch-hour.
- Public egress beyond 500 GB per project is $0.10/GB on paid plans; Free includes 5 GB per project.
| Plan | Monthly fee | Database size | Compute hours per month | Data transfer per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | up to 1 GB | up to 400 hours | up to 5 GB |
| Launch | None | $0.35 per GB | $0.0265 per hour | 500 GB includedthen $0.1 per GB |
What you'd pay
Usage only some alternatives charge for
Launch8 GB × $0.35 per GB + 730 hours × $0.0265 per hour$22/mo
Cost as you grow
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