Neon Serverless Postgres pricing

Postgres with storage and compute separated, so idle databases scale to zero and cost nothing. Branching a database is a copy-on-write operation rather than a dump and restore.

List prices checked

By Neon · Managed databases

Rate card

What Neon charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Entry plan$19.00/moCheapest paid plan or typical entry configuration
Storage$0.350/GB-moStandard or hot storage class
Free tierYes0.5 GB of storage and 190 compute hours per month

Source: Neon pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

Neon Serverless Postgres billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$26/mo

  • Entry plan at $19/month$19
  • 20 GB at $0.35/GB-month$7.00

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$194/mo

  • Entry plan at $19/month$19
  • 500 GB at $0.35/GB-month$175

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$719/mo

  • Entry plan at $19/month$19
  • 2 TB at $0.35/GB-month$700

Neon Serverless Postgres vs the alternatives

The closest managed databases on price, with the difference on managed databases's headline axis.

ServiceEntry planvs Neon Serverless PostgresCompare
Supabase$25.001.3× dearerHead to head
CockroachDB Cloud$25.001.3× dearerHead to head
Scaleway Managed Database$13.001.5× cheaperHead to head
Azure Database for PostgreSQL$12.411.5× cheaperHead to head
AWS RDS for PostgreSQL$12.401.5× cheaperHead to head
Upstash Redis$10.001.9× cheaperHead to head

Questions about pricing

How much does Neon Serverless Postgres cost in 2026?
Neon Serverless Postgres charges $19.00 per month for the entry plan, per Neon's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: 0.5 GB of storage and 190 compute hours per month. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does Neon Serverless Postgres have a free tier?
Yes — 0.5 GB of storage and 190 compute hours per month. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
Are these Neon Serverless Postgres prices current?
They were checked against Neon's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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