Serverless Postgres · Backend & Databases

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Neon free tier

Serverless Postgres with branching that scales to zero when unused.

Checked against Neon's official pages on 1 Nov 2026. Free tiers change, so confirm before you commit.

What Neon's free plan gives you

Up to 100 projects with 100 compute-hours each per month, 1 GB storage per project (20 GB per account) and 10 branches.

Neon free plan limits
Limit	Free plan
Compute	100 CU-hours / project / month, up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM)
Storage	1 GB per project, 20 GB total
Projects	100
Branches	10 per project
Egress	5 GB
Restore window	6 hours

The catch

Only 1 GB of storage per project.

Pros and cons

Good

Many free projects
Database branching
No card

Watch out

1 GB per project
Cold starts after idle
Short 6-hour restore window

How to start on Neon

1
Sign up at neon.com
2
Create a project and pick a region
3
Copy the connection string
4
Add it as DATABASE_URL in your app
5
Create a branch for testing

Neon compared

Neon: questions

Is Neon free?

Up to 100 projects with 100 compute-hours each per month, 1 GB storage per project (20 GB per account) and 10 branches. Free plan ends: Never.

Does Neon need a credit card?

No, you can sign up for Neon's free plan without a card.

What is the catch with Neon's free plan?

Only 1 GB of storage per project.

What are the best free alternatives to Neon?

Cloudflare D1, Firebase (Spark plan), Turso. Compare their limits on this page or open each one for details.

Alternatives to Neon

Cloudflare D1
Serverless SQLite
100
SQLite databases that run alongside Cloudflare Workers on the free Workers plan.
Databases
10
Storage
5 GB total
Row reads
5M / day
The catch: Only 100,000 row writes per day, which resets daily.
No cardNo end date
Paid from $5/mo (Workers Paid)
Firebase (Spark plan)
BaaS + hosting
100
Google's app backend: static hosting, auth and Firestore on the free Spark plan.
Hosting
10 GB storage, 360 MB/day transfer
Firestore
1 GiB, 50K reads / 20K writes per day
Realtime DB
1 GB, 100 connections
The catch: Cloud Functions, App Hosting and (for new projects) Cloud Storage need the pay-as-you-go Blaze plan.
No cardNo end date
Paid from Usage-based
Turso
Edge SQLite
92
Hosted SQLite (libSQL) with many small databases and edge replicas.
Databases
100
Storage
5 GB
Row reads
500M / month
The catch: Only one day of point-in-time restore on the free plan.
No cardNo end date
Paid from $4.99/mo (Developer)
Upstash
Serverless Redis
92
Serverless Redis you call over HTTP, priced per request.
Data size
250 MB
Commands
500K / month
Bandwidth
10 GB / month
The catch: 500K commands a month runs out fast if you poll or cache every request.
No cardNo end date
Paid from $10/mo (Fixed 250 MB (or pay as you go $0.20 per 100K commands))
MongoDB Atlas
Managed MongoDB
87
Hosted MongoDB with a free shared cluster that has no end date.
Storage
512 MB
Throughput
Up to 100 ops/sec
Connections
500
The catch: 512 MB fills quickly, and there is a 100 ops/sec cap.
No cardNo end dateSleeps when idle
Paid from Usage-based
Supabase
Postgres BaaS
87
Open-source backend built on Postgres, with auth, storage and edge functions.
Projects
2 active
Database
500 MB per project
File storage
1 GB
The catch: Free projects pause after a week without activity.
No cardNo end dateSleeps when idle
Paid from $25/mo (Pro)

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