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Neon Pricing: Plans & Features 2026
Unlike typical cloud hosts, Neon uses auto-suspend to cut costs across 3 plans ranging from a free tier to $15/mo.
Neon plans and pricing
High· Verified July 2, 2026
Free
FreeBest for: This plan is perfect for testing, personal projects, or exploring Neon's capabilities without any cost
- ✓100 projects
- ✓100 CU-hrs monthly per project
- ✓0.5 GB storage per project
- ✓Up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM)
- ✓Neon Auth: 60K MAUs
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MOST POPULARLaunch
$15/moBest for: The Launch plan is an excellent choice for small businesses, startups, or individuals needing more resources than the free tier
- ✓100 projects
- ✓$0.106 per CU-hr
- ✓$0.35 per GB-month storage
- ✓Up to 16 CU (64 GB RAM)
- ✓Configurable scale-to-zero
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Scale
$31/moBest for: The Scale plan is designed for growing applications and businesses with moderate traffic or data demands
- ✓1,000+ projects
- ✓$0.222 per CU-hr
- ✓$0.35 per GB-month storage
- ✓Up to 56 CU (224 GB RAM)
- ✓Configurable scale-to-zero
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Neon pricing: the quick answer
Neon costs $15 to $31/mo as a typical starting spend as of July 2, 2026, across 3 plans, with a free tier. Free gives you 100 CU-hours and 0.5 GB of storage per project. Launch runs about $15/mo at $0.106 per CU-hour plus $0.35 per GB-month, and Scale about $31/mo at $0.222 per CU-hour on the same storage rate. Both paid plans have a $0 minimum and bill from what you actually use, so the listed price is a representative spend, not a fixed fee. Extra branches are $0.002 per branch-hour.
Use the interactive Neon pricing calculator to estimate your exact monthly cost at your team size, with annual-billing savings and the hidden costs counted in.
Free tier
Yes
Billing model
Usage-Based
Cheapest paid
$15/mo
Annual discount
Not offered
At $15/mo to start, Neon sits 36% above the $11/mo median across 20 cloud hosting tools we track.
What Neon really costs
What sits on top of the plan fee
The plan price is really a starting point. Compute, storage, extra branches, and egress all bill separately once you pass what is included.
Compute
Per CU-hour, Launch plan
Compute
Per CU-hour, Scale plan
Database storage
Same rate on Launch and Scale
History/restore storage
WAL retained in the point-in-time restore window
Extra branches
Beyond the plan's included branch count
Pricing Expert Take
Independent analysis · Neon
Verified Pricing Data
Value Analysis
$15/mo36% above median
Category median: $11/moBased on 20 products in this category
Neon positions itself as a premium serverless Postgres provider, with its Launch plan priced at $15/mo, sitting just below the category median of $16.49/mo. The Scale plan jumps to $31/mo, which significantly increases the compute unit (CU) rate from $0.106 to $0.222 per CU-hour. For developers utilizing its scale-to-zero feature for development and testing, Neon offers exceptional value. However, for continuous production workloads, the premium usage-based compute rates make it a highly expensive option compared to traditional provisioning.
Hidden Costs
- Overage charges of $0.106 per CU-hour on Launch and $0.222 per CU-hour on Scale once base limits are exceeded.
- Storage overages billed at $0.35 per GB-month across both paid tiers.
- High compute costs for continuous workloads, where a 2 CU (8 GB RAM) database running 750 hours costs $159/mo on Launch or $333/mo on Scale.
Red Flags
Users report severe bill shock when transitioning from development to production workloads due to the steep pricing of continuous compute units. The pricing structure can penalize active databases that cannot utilize the scale-to-zero feature.
"Neon got MUCH more expensive after acquisition."
"I just got a $19.85 bill from Neon and I'm honestly shocked."
Based on analysis of recent Reddit and G2 discussions.
Green Wins
The Launch plan at $15/mo offers git-like branching for isolated dev/test environments.
- Git-like branching for isolated dev/test environments
- True serverless: compute scales to zero, saving costs
- Instant database creation via copy-on-write branching
"Users consistently praise the ease of use and intuitive design of Neon CRM, highlighting"
G2
""Excellent Product"
... Ease of use, and friendly interface. Never any problems from a" - Capterra
"Pros · Very user friendly · Great customer service--they always quickly reply to inquiries"
TrustRadius
User Voices
"Neon also makes it incredibly easy to have separate databases for preview, dev, test"
"Neon cost of 2CU (8GB) x 750hrs = $159 on Launch or $333 on Scale."
"Without knowing much about your requirements... Neon is a good technology to use."
Verdict
Individual developers and teams with intermittent workloads should choose the Launch plan at $15/mo to benefit from scale-to-zero and branching. For steady, high-traffic production databases where compute runs 24/7, the usage-based pricing becomes inefficient. If you run continuous workloads, a traditional virtual private server from DigitalOcean at $4/mo is a much more predictable and cost-effective alternative.
ComparEdge EditorialUpdated: July 2, 2026
Neon price history
Expert verified·Updated July 2, 2026
Price & Data Intelligence SyncLast verified: July 2, 2026 · CE-CLOUD-2026W23-22B599 · ✓ Pricing updated May 30, 2026
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Sources & Data Trail · Neon
- 1.Official Pricing Page·Source of verified tiers(Checked: 2026-07-02)
- 2.Official Website·Official vendor website
- 3.G2·G2 verified user reviews · 4.7/5 · 419 reviews
- 4.Capterra·Capterra verified user reviews
- 5.TrustRadius·TrustRadius verified reviews
- 6.PeerSpot·PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews