Neon Scale · 1 CU
Neon Scale is pay-as-you-go with no monthly minimum. Compute costs USD 0.222 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. Fixed sizes up to 56 CU (224 GB RAM), 30 days of history and higher project limits.
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Service
- Serverless PostgreSQL (per compute unit)
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Choosing Neon Scale · 1 CU
Who it suits
Teams running larger PostgreSQL databases on Neon that need fixed sizes up to 56 CU (224 GB of memory), 30 days of history for point-in-time restores and more projects than Launch allows.
Compared with other Neon plans
Scale costs $0.222 per CU-hour, about 2.1 times Launch’s $0.106. What you buy is size and recovery: Launch stops at 16 CU and 7 days of history; Scale reaches 56 CU and keeps 30 days. Storage is $0.35 per GB-month on both, and neither has a monthly minimum.
Before you sign up
An always-on 1 CU database on Scale costs about $162 a month before storage, so compare it with a fixed managed PostgreSQL plan if your database never sleeps. Egress beyond 500 GB is $0.10 per GB. Size compute by your peak, because fixed sizes do not shrink in quiet hours the way autoscaling does.
Worked costs
- 1 CU always on (730 hours)
- $162.06
- 4 CU always on (730 hours)
- $648.24
- Plus 50 GB of storage
- $17.50
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 Scale · 1 CU differs from its neighbours
Other tiers
- Neon Free is a lower tier at $0.00 a month, $162.06 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 $0.222 since we started tracking it on .
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