Neon pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Neon (neon.com) is a database platform. Usage-based: compute is billed per CU-hour ($0.106 on Launch, $0.222 on Scale) and storage at $0.35/GB-month, with snapshots, history and egress metered beyond their allowances; no monthly minimum on . Free plan: Free plan: $0, no card, ongoing (not a trial); 100 CU-hours, 1 GB storage and 5 GB public egress per project; compute suspends after 5 min idle..
What Neon costs
- 10 GB app: $23.75/mo (Launch: 0.25 CU (about 1 GB RAM, derived from 4 GB per CU) x 730 h = 182.5 CU-h x $0.106 = $19.35; storage 10 GB x $0.35 = $3.50; backups 10 GB x $0.09 snapshot rate = $0.90 (7-day history is metered at $0.20/GB-month, so the cheaper snapshot option is used); egress 20 GB inside the 500 GB included = $0. Total $23.745, shown as 23.75. Free does not qualify (1 GB storage per project, 100 CU-h cap, compute cannot stay on). Scale would be about $44.92. If 7-day history were treated as free, the total would be $22.85.)
- Side project: free (Free plan covers it at $0: 250 MB of 1 GB storage; 120 h x 0.25 CU = 30 of 100 CU-h; 1 GB egress of 5 GB; backups not required; data is kept when an allowance runs out.)
- 100 GB app: $121.38/mo (Launch: 1 CU (4 GB RAM) x 730 h = 730 CU-h x $0.106 = $77.38; storage 100 GB x $0.35 = $35.00; backups 100 GB x $0.09 = $9.00; egress 200 GB inside the 500 GB included = $0; members unlimited = $0. Total $121.38. If 7-day history were treated as free, the total would be $112.38.)
Plan compared: Launch plan at monthly on-demand list prices (no annual prices stated).. Every price is the monthly cost, at list prices on monthly billing, of running the same app database in a US region: a 10 GB production app (the headline), a 250 MB side project and a 100 GB growing app, each with a fixed number of reads, writes and developers, on the cheapest self-serve plan that fully covers it. Free plans count when they cover the whole job and allow production use; trials and sign-up credits do not.
Neon price hikes
No price hikes on record for Neon.
Cheaper alternatives to Neon
At a 10 GB production app, Neon costs $23.75/mo. 2 database platforms cost less:
- Firebase: $6.36/mo (Blaze pay-as-you-go, Cloud Firestore Standard edition, Iowa (us-central1), default on-demand prices, after free quotas)
- Amazon RDS: $13.98/mo (On-demand Single-AZ db.t4g.micro PostgreSQL, 730 hours a month, 20 GiB gp3 storage.)
Neon alternatives: 4 database platforms compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Oct 5, 2026 · Repriced: Free plan storage per project doubled from 0.5 GB to 1 GB at $0. An allowance increase, not a cut.
- Aug 17, 2026 · Repriced: Per PricingSaaS, 'Spending limits' (described there as a hard spend cap) became alert-only 'Spending notifications'. Plan scope not stated; Neon's own wording was not checked.
- Jul 27, 2026 · Repriced: AI Gateway post-beta pricing dropped the explicit no-markup promise and now says pricing matches model provider cost. No figures published.
- May 2026 · Repriced: Snapshots and scheduled backups were added as priced options: Free gets 1 snapshot; Launch and Scale pay $0.09/GB-month for snapshots and scheduled backups.
Sources
Pricing page: neon.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Rates and limits come from the official neon.com/pricing page (read through a summary) and agree with PricingSaaS on storage, snapshot and restore rates; PricingSaaS shows Launch as $0.11/CU-hour, the rounded form of $0.106. The web search for price increases could not run because the search budget was used up, so the history rests on PricingSaaS's seven 2026 entries, and none of them shows an existing price going up.