{"head":{"title":"Neon Pricing: Postgres Compute, Storage, Plans | OceanLab","description":"Neon serverless Postgres prices: Free, Launch and Scale plans, compute per CU-hour, storage and egress, read off Neon's own docs. Estimate a month.","canonical":"https://oceanlab.in/pricing/neon"},"asOf":"2026-10-25","vendor":{"id":"neon","name":"Neon","product":"Neon serverless Postgres","categories":["databases"],"source":"https://neon.com/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"USD, list prices. Launch and Scale are usage-based with no minimum monthly fee. Compute is billed per CU-hour (1 CU is about 4 GB RAM); storage per GB-month. Region not specified on the page (same rate shown for all).","plans":[{"id":"free","name":"Free","monthly":0,"summary":"100 CU-hours per project, 1 GB storage per project, up to 2 CU, scales to zero after 5 min","source":"https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans"},{"id":"launch","name":"Launch","monthly":0,"summary":"Usage-based, no minimum fee. $0.106 per CU-hour, $0.35 per GB-month, up to 16 CU. Neon's typical spend estimate: $15/mo","source":"https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans"},{"id":"scale","name":"Scale","monthly":0,"summary":"Usage-based, no minimum fee. $0.222 per CU-hour, $0.35 per GB-month, up to 56 CU, SLAs and HIPAA","source":"https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans"}],"meters":[{"id":"cu-launch","kind":"other","label":"Compute, Launch plan","unit":"CU-hour","per":1,"price":0.106,"included":0,"plan":"launch","note":"1 CU is about 4 GB RAM. An always-on 0.25 CU uses about 182.5 CU-hours a month.","source":"https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans"},{"id":"cu-scale","kind":"other","label":"Compute, Scale plan","unit":"CU-hour","per":1,"price":0.222,"included":0,"plan":"scale","source":"https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans"},{"id":"cu-free","kind":"other","label":"Compute, Free plan (included only)","unit":"CU-hour","per":1,"price":0,"included":100,"plan":"free","note":"100 CU-hours per project per month, no overage on Free.","source":"https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans"},{"id":"storage","kind":"db-storage-gb","label":"Database storage (Launch and Scale)","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"price":0.35,"included":0,"plan":null,"source":"https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans"},{"id":"egress","kind":"egress-gb","label":"Public network transfer beyond 500 GB per project","unit":"GB","per":1,"price":0.1,"included":500,"plan":null,"note":"Free plan includes 5 GB per project.","source":"https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans"},{"id":"instant-restore","kind":"other","label":"Instant restore history storage","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"price":0.2,"included":0,"plan":null,"source":"https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans"},{"id":"branches","kind":"other","label":"Extra branches beyond 10 (Launch) / 25 (Scale) per project","unit":"branch-month","per":1,"price":1.5,"included":0,"plan":null,"source":"https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans"},{"id":"private-transfer","kind":"other","label":"Private network transfer (Scale)","unit":"GB","per":1,"price":0.01,"included":0,"plan":"scale","source":"https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans"}],"notes":[{"title":"Free tier","detail":"Free costs $0 with 100 CU-hours and 1 GB storage per project (20 GB total across projects)."},{"title":"No minimum","detail":"Launch and Scale have no minimum monthly fee. Invoices under $0.50 are not collected."},{"title":"Scale to zero","detail":"Computes suspend after 5 minutes idle. Free cannot turn this off, Launch can, Scale can set 1 minute to always on."},{"title":"Spend alerts","detail":"Launch and Scale get email alerts at 80% and 100% of a spend threshold you set. These are alerts, not a hard cap."}],"unverified":["Region-specific price differences (the page shows one rate)."]},"categories":[{"id":"databases","name":"Database","href":"/pricing/categories/databases"}],"siblings":[{"label":"AWS pricing","href":"/pricing/aws","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Microsoft Azure pricing","href":"/pricing/azure","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"DigitalOcean pricing","href":"/pricing/digitalocean","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Firebase pricing","href":"/pricing/firebase","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Google Cloud pricing","href":"/pricing/google-cloud","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"MongoDB Atlas pricing","href":"/pricing/mongodb-atlas","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"PlanetScale pricing","href":"/pricing/planetscale","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Render pricing","href":"/pricing/render","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Supabase pricing","href":"/pricing/supabase","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."}],"faqs":[{"question":"How much does Neon cost?","answer":"Free has no monthly fee: 100 CU-hours per project, 1 GB storage per project, up to 2 CU, scales to zero after 5 min. Usage rates include database storage (Launch and Scale) at $0.35 per GB-month and public network transfer beyond 500 GB per project at $0.10 per GB. All checked on 2026-10-25."},{"question":"Is there a free tier on Neon?","answer":"Yes. Compute, Free plan (included only): 100 CU-hour a month at no charge and Public network transfer beyond 500 GB per project: 500 GB a month at no charge. The rates table shows which plan each allowance is on."},{"question":"What is not on Neon's pricing page?","answer":"We could not confirm these on 2026-10-25, so the page shows no number for them: Region-specific price differences (the page shows one rate)."},{"question":"Where do these prices come from?","answer":"From Neon's own pricing pages, starting at https://neon.com/pricing, checked on 2026-10-25. Every row links to the page it came from. USD, list prices. Launch and Scale are usage-based with no minimum monthly fee. Compute is billed per CU-hour (1 CU is about 4 GB RAM); storage per GB-month. Region not specified on the page (same rate shown for all)."}]}