Neon Launch · 1 CU
Neon Launch is pay-as-you-go with no monthly minimum. Compute costs USD 0.106 per CU-hour, where 1 CU is about 4 GB of RAM with matching CPU; a database that scales to zero only pays while active. Storage costs $0.35 per GB-month and egress beyond 500 GB $0.10 per GB. Autoscaling up to 16 CU (64 GB RAM), 7 days of history.
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Service
- Serverless PostgreSQL (per compute unit)
Our notes
Choosing Neon Launch · 1 CU
Who it suits
Production apps with uneven traffic, such as a SaaS used in office hours or an internal tool, where paying only while the database is active is cheaper than an always-on server.
Compared with other Neon plans
Launch charges $0.106 per CU-hour, less than half Scale’s $0.222. Launch autoscales up to 16 CU (64 GB of memory) and keeps 7 days of history. Scale goes up to 56 CU with 30 days of history and higher project limits. Storage is $0.35 per GB-month on both.
Before you sign up
Scale-to-zero is what makes Launch cheap. A database kept awake around the clock at 1 CU costs about $77 a month, more than many fixed-size managed databases. Egress beyond 500 GB is $0.10 per GB. Watch the autoscaling ceiling: a busy hour at a larger size multiplies the hourly cost.
Worked costs
- 1 CU, 8 hours a day for 22 workdays
- $18.66
- 1 CU always on (730 hours)
- $77.38
- Plus 10 GB of storage
- $3.50
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.
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Specifications
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Service
- Serverless PostgreSQL (per compute unit)
Within Neon's range
How Neon Launch · 1 CU differs from its neighbours
Other tiers
- Neon Free is the next tier down at $0.00 a month, $77.38 less than this plan. Compared with this plan, it lists memory as 8 GB instead of 4 GB, service as Serverless PostgreSQL instead of Serverless PostgreSQL (per compute unit) and also lists included storage: 1 GB.
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 hourly list price of $0.106 since we started tracking it on .
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