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Neon plans

Learn about the different plans offered by Neon

Neon's plans are designed to meet different user requirements, ranging from hobby projects to enterprise-level production workloads. We also offer custom enterprise plans with volume-based discounts for large teams or database fleets. Refer to our Pricing page for fees and a detailed plan comparison.

Neon offers four plans:

Plan Allowances and Extra Usage

Neon plans are structured around Allowances and Extra usage. Allowances are included in your plan. With Neon's paid plans, you can purchase extra usage in set increments for when you need to go over your allowance.

Free Plan

Neon's Free Plan plan is best for hobby projects, prototypes, and learning Neon.

Free Plan allowances

The Free Plan includes the following usage allowances:

Usage typePlan allowance
Projects1 Neon project
Branches10 branches
DatabasesUnlimited
Storage0.5 GiB
Compute24/7 availability at 0.25 vCPU with 1 GB RAM on your default branch. Autoscaling up to 2 vCPU with 8 GB RAM available. Your account includes 191.9 compute hours per month, with up to 5 of those hours available to non-default branches.
Data transfer (Egress)5 GB per month

What is a compute hour?

  • A compute hour is one active hour for a compute with 1 vCPU. For a compute with .25 vCPU, it takes 4 active hours to use 1 compute hour. On the other hand, if your compute has 4 vCPUs, it takes only 15 minutes to use 1 compute hour.

  • An active hour is a measure of the amount of time a compute is active. The time your compute is idle when suspended due to inactivity is not counted.

  • Compute hours formula

    compute hours = compute size * active hours

Free Plan features

  • Autosuspend (after 5 minutes of inactivity)
  • Monitoring with 1 day of historical data
  • All supported regions
  • Project sharing
  • Advanced Postgres features such as connection pooling, logical replication, and 60+ Postgres extensions
  • Neon features such as branching, point-in-time restore up to 24 hours in the past, time travel connections, and more
  • Community support

For a complete list of features, refer to the detailed plan comparison on the Neon pricing page.

Free Plan Compute Allowances

On the Free Plan, your default branch compute can run 24/7 at 0.25 vCPU with 1 GB of RAM. If you enable autoscaling, your compute can scale up to 2 vCPU with 8 GB of RAM, providing additional resources to meet peak demand. Note that enabling autoscaling may affect 24/7 availability depending on your usage patterns. The Free Plan includes 191.9 compute hours per month, with up to 5 of those compute hours per month available to non-default branches. If you go over the 5 compute hours allowance, non-default branch computes are suspended until the allowance resets at the beginning of the month. If you go over the 191.9 compute hour allowance, all computes are suspended until the beginning of the month. For example, if you signed up for the Free Plan in January, your compute allowance resets on February 1st.

Launch

The Launch plan provides all of the resources, features, and support you need to launch your application. It's ideal for startups and growing businesses or applications.

Launch plan allowances

The Launch plan includes the following usage allowances:

Usage typePlan allowance
Projects10 Neon projects
Branches500 per project
DatabasesUnlimited
Storage10 GiB of data storage
Compute300 compute hours a month for all computes across all projects

Launch plan extra usage

Launch plan users have access to extra compute and storage, which is allocated and billed automatically when plan allowances are exceeded.

Extra usage typeCost
Extra StorageBilled for in units of 2 GiB at $3.50 per unit, prorated for the month
Extra ComputeBilled by compute hour at $0.16 per hour

Launch plan features

  • Autoscaling compute size up to 4 vCPUs and 16 GB RAM, Autosuspend (5 minutes+ to 7 days)
  • Monitoring with 7 days of historical data
  • Advanced Postgres features, including connection pooling, logical replication, and 60+ Postgres extensions
  • Neon features such as branching, point-in-time restore up to 7 days in the past, time travel connections, and more
  • Standard support

For a complete list of features, refer to the detailed plan comparison on the Neon pricing page.

Scale

The Scale plan provides full platform and support access and is designed for scaling production workloads.

Scale plan allowances

The Scale plan includes the following usage allowances:

Usage typePlan allowance
Projects50 Neon projects
Branches500 per project
DatabasesUnlimited
Storage50 GiB of data storage
Compute750 compute hours a month for all computes across all projects

Scale plan extra usage

Scale plan users have access to extra compute, storage, and projects, which is allocated and billed automatically when plan allowances are exceeded.

Extra usage typeCost
Extra StorageBilled in units of 10 GiB at $15 per unit, prorated for the month
Extra ComputeBilled by compute hour at $0.16 per hour
Extra ProjectsBilled for in units of 10 at $50 per unit

Scale plan features

  • Autoscaling compute up to 8 vCPUs and 32 GB RAM, Autosuspend (1 minute+ to 7 days)
  • Monitoring with 14 days of historical data
  • Advanced Postgres features, including connection pooling, logical replication, 60+ Postgres extensions, and customer-provided custom extensions
  • Branch protection (up to 5 branches)
  • Monitoring with 7 days of historical data
  • Neon features such as branching, point-in-time restore up to 14 days in the past, time travel connections, and more
  • Standard support

For a complete list of features, refer to the detailed plan comparison on the Neon pricing page.

Business

The Business plan is designed for mid-to-large enterprises requiring higher compute capacity and advanced security and compliance features.

Business plan allowances

The Business plan includes the following usage allowances:

Usage typePlan allowance
Projects100 Neon projects
Branches500 per project
DatabasesUnlimited
Storage500 GiB of data storage
Compute1,000 compute hours a month for all computes across all projects

Business plan extra usage

Business plan users have access to extra compute, storage, and projects, which are allocated and billed automatically when plan allowances are exceeded.

Extra usage typeCost
Extra StorageBilled for in units of 10 GiB at $7.50 per unit, prorated for the month
Extra ComputeBilled by compute hour at $0.16 per hour
Extra ProjectsBilled for in units of 10 at $5 per unit

Business plan features

  • Autoscaling compute up to 10 vCPUs and 40 GB RAM
  • Monitoring with 14 days of historical data
  • Advanced Postgres features, including connection pooling, logical replication, and 60+ Postgres extensions
  • Neon features such as branching, point-in-time restore up to 30 days in the past, time travel connections, and more
  • Enhanced security features including SOC 2 compliance, Branch Protection, and allowed IP configurations.
  • Priority support
  • Service SLA of 99.95% uptime

For a complete list of features and comparisons with other plans, refer to the detailed plan comparison on the Neon pricing page.

Enterprise

The Enterprise plan is a custom plan intended for large teams, enterprises requiring database fleets, or SaaS vendors interested in reselling Neon or integrating Neon into their service.

Enterprise plan usage is entirely customizable and can support large data sizes.

Usage typePlan allowance
ProjectsUnlimited
BranchesCustom
DatabasesUnlimited
StorageLarge data sizes
ComputeCustom

Additionally, the Enterprise plan can be tailored to your specific requirements with:

  • Custom pricing with discounts
  • Higher resource allowances for projects, branches, storage, and compute
  • Autosuspend (disabled entirely or up to 7 days)
  • Customer-owned S3

Enterprise plan users have access to Enterprise support, which includes everything offered with the Priority plan plus SLAs. For more information, Neon support plans are outlined on our Support page.

If you are interested in exploring an Enterprise plan with Neon, you can request an enterprise trial or get in touch with our sales team.

Feedback

We’re always looking for ways to improve our pricing model to make it as developer-friendly as possible. If you have feedback for us, let us know via the Feedback form in the Neon Console or our feedback channel on Discord. We read and consider every submission.

Need help?

Join our Discord Server to ask questions or see what others are doing with Neon. Users on paid plans can open a support ticket from the console. For more detail, see Getting Support.

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