Is Neon still free?
Yes Yes. Neon had a free tier on the vendor's public page on 2026-10-05.
The Free plan is permanent and gives each project 100 CU-hours of compute and 1 GB of storage, with no credit card required.
Free tier limits and listed figures
| Item | Value on the vendor page |
|---|---|
| Projects | 100 |
| Compute | 100 CU-hours/project |
| Storage | 1 GB/project, 20 GB account total |
| Branches per project | 10 |
| Network egress | 5 GB per project |
| Autoscaling | Up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM) |
| History window | 6 hours (1 GB limit) |
Card and commercial use
- Credit card required
- No
- Commercial use allowed
- not stated by the vendor
Gotchas
- Scale to zero after 5 minutes is always enabled on Free and cannot be turned off
- Running out of CU-hours, egress or storage suspends compute or blocks writes
- Pricing page: "None of these limits delete your data."
Recent change
No recent change is noted on the vendor page that was read.
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Source
Vendor page read by software on 2026-10-05, written out as text so you can copy it into your browser:
https://neon.com/pricing