# Neon pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Free). Among the 7 managed postgres we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** neon.com
**Free tier:** Yes
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** Vercel, Prisma, Drizzle, Clerk, Auth0, Datadog, Grafana Cloud, Airbyte
**Best for:** Serverless and edge workloads needing scale-to-zero Postgres; Dev/staging workflows using database branches tied to git PRs; Healthcare apps requiring HIPAA BAA (Scale plan); Teams wanting pure pay-as-you-go with no monthly minimum

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | — | flat | 0.5 GB storage per project; 100 CU-hours/project/month; 5 GB public egress; permanent free plan, no credit card required. | neon.com |
| Launch | Quote-only | — | custom | Pure pay-as-you-go, no monthly minimum. Compute: $0.106/CU-hour; Storage: $0.35/GB-month; Egress: 500 GB included then $0.10/GB; Instant restore: $0.20/GB-month; Extra branches: $1.50/branch-month. | neon.com |
| Scale | Quote-only | — | custom | Pure pay-as-you-go, no monthly minimum. Compute: $0.222/CU-hour; Storage: $0.35/GB-month; Egress: 500 GB included then $0.10/GB; Private network transfer: $0.01/GB; HIPAA available (BAA required). Higher availability and compliance vs Launch. | neon.com |

**Key features:** Database branching via copy-on-write — instant isolated clones with zero parent load impact; Scale-to-zero compute — no idle charges on free/serverless workloads; Instant restore to any point-in-time within history window; Serverless driver for HTTP/WebSocket connections from edge runtimes; SOC 2 Type II + HIPAA (Scale plan) + GDPR with DPA.

**Plan limits:** Free: 100 projects, 0.5 GB storage/project, 100 CU-hours/project/month, 5 GB egress/month; Free: 10 branches per project, 6-hour history window, scale-to-zero after 5 min (cannot disable); Free: 60,000 MAU for built-in auth.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Prices fetched from https://neon.com/pricing on 2026-06-14 (neon.tech/pricing redirects 308 to neon.com/pricing). Free=$0 confirmed. Launch and Scale are purely pay-as-you-go with no monthly minimum; per-page statement: 'no monthly minimum' — recorded as monthlyUsd=null with billingModel=custom. HIPAA confirmed available on Scale plan with BAA required (self-serve, no additional cost stated on pricing page but docs note 'an additional charge'). Corroborated by https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/managed-postgres/neon/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Neon's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/managed-postgres/neon/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl