Neon Free free tier
Free serverless Postgres — 100 CU-hours a month, no credit card required, compute scales to zero.
Active Free tier confirmed on the official pricing page.
Last verified: 2026-11-09. Free tiers change without notice — always confirm on the official pricing page before you rely on a limit.
Source: Neon Pricing page
Source: Neon Pricing page
Free allowance
| What | Free allowance |
|---|---|
| Projects | 100 projects |
| Compute | 100 CU-hours per month per project |
| Storage | 1 GB per project (20 GB account cap) |
| Outbound data | 5 GB per month per project |
| Monthly active users | 60,000 per project |
| Object storage | 5 GB |
| Function invocations | 1,000,000 per month per project |
Credit card required?
No — the official pricing page says no credit card is required for the free tier.
Limits & watch-outs
- Compute scales to zero after 5 minutes idle (wakes in a few hundred ms); free projects are not paused, unlike Supabase.
- When CU-hours or data transfer run out, the project pauses until the next billing cycle.
- Only 1 manual snapshot; storage overages block writes.
- Using the AI Gateway on the free plan requires a card and prepayment.
Best for
Serverless Postgres where compute should scale to zero when idle.
What to watch
Free-tier compute is capped at 100 CU-hours per project; a busy app can exhaust it mid-month.
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