Neon Free
Neon Free costs nothing: 100 CU-hours of compute per project each month (enough for a 0.25 CU database for 400 hours), 1 GB of storage per project, autoscaling up to 2 CU and scale-to-zero after 5 minutes. Usage stops at the limits rather than being billed.
Neon Free costs $0.00 a month, or $0 a year.
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 1 GB
- Service
- Serverless PostgreSQL
Our notes
Choosing Neon Free
Who it suits
Side projects, prototypes, preview environments and apps that are idle most of the day. Neon scales to zero after 5 minutes without queries, so the compute allowance is spent only while the database is in use.
Compared with other Neon plans
Free includes 100 CU-hours a month per project and 1 GB of storage per project, with autoscaling up to 2 CU (about 8 GB of memory). Launch removes the hard limits and bills $0.106 per CU-hour and $0.35 per GB-month of storage, with no monthly minimum.
Before you sign up
100 CU-hours means 400 hours at the smallest 0.25 CU size, but a month has about 730 hours, so a database that never idles will run out. Usage stops at the limit rather than being billed. The first query after scale-to-zero can wait while compute starts, which matters for user-facing pages.
Worked costs
- Free plan
- $0
- Same database on Launch: 100 CU-hours
- $10.60
- Plus 5 GB of storage on Launch
- $1.75
Our arithmetic from the list prices in our catalog, before tax, add-ons and any overage not shown. Hourly prices use 730 hours for a month.
Written on from the prices and limits on this page. We hide these notes if a price they quote changes. How we compare plans
Cost at a glance
What this plan costs you
- Per month
- $0.00
- Per year
- $0
Standard list price before tax, add-ons, backups or bandwidth overage.
Specifications
- Included storage
- 1 GB
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Service
- Serverless PostgreSQL
Before you buy
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Within Neon's range
How Neon Free differs from its neighbours
Other tiers
- Neon Launch · 1 CU is the next tier up at $77.38 a month (hourly price × 730), $77.38 more than this plan. Compared with this plan, it lists memory as 4 GB instead of 8 GB and service as Serverless PostgreSQL (per compute unit) instead of Serverless PostgreSQL.
From the published specs and list prices in our catalog. Only published specs that differ are listed.
All prices
Price history
No change to the monthly list price of $0.00 since we started tracking it on .
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Questions
Questions about Neon Free
How much does Neon Free cost?
$0.00 a month, or about $0.00 a year, before tax.
What does the next tier up cost?
Neon Launch · 1 CU is the next tier up at $77.38 a month (hourly price × 730), $77.38 more than this plan. Compared with this plan, it lists memory as 4 GB instead of 8 GB and service as Serverless PostgreSQL (per compute unit) instead of Serverless PostgreSQL.