{
  "updated": "2026-10-28",
  "report_url": "https://freetier.tech/api/v1/reports",
  "service": {
    "id": "neon",
    "name": "Neon",
    "category": "database",
    "tagline": "Serverless Postgres with autoscaling, branching and scale-to-zero.",
    "website": "https://neon.com",
    "pricing_url": "https://neon.com/pricing",
    "free_tier": {
      "kind": "always-free",
      "summary": "100 projects, each with 100 CU-hours/month, 1 GB storage (20 GB total) and 5 GB egress/month.",
      "limits": [
        "100 projects",
        "100 CU-hours per project per month",
        "1 GB Postgres storage per project, 20 GB total across all projects",
        "5 GB public network transfer (egress) per project per month",
        "Autoscaling up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM)",
        "10 branches per project",
        "6-hour restore window (1 GB limit)",
        "1 manual snapshot",
        "1 day monitoring retention"
      ],
      "credit_usd": null,
      "commercial_use": null,
      "card_required": false
    },
    "gotchas": [
      "Compute scales to zero after 5 minutes idle and this can't be disabled on Free; the next query wakes it within a few hundred milliseconds.",
      "Using up a project's 100 CU-hours or 5 GB egress suspends its compute until the next billing period or an upgrade.",
      "Exceeding 1 GB in a project (or 20 GB in total) makes inserts, updates and deletes fail until space is freed; data is not deleted.",
      "Neon says Free should be avoided for production workloads where uninterrupted availability matters.",
      "The CLI's npm package is now `neon` (Homebrew formula is still `neonctl`); `neon auth` is a legacy alias for `neon login`."
    ],
    "setup": {
      "signup_url": "https://neon.com/signup",
      "signup_methods": [
        "github",
        "google",
        "email"
      ],
      "human_steps": [
        "Sign up at https://neon.com/signup (GitHub or Google sign-in is fastest).",
        "Approve the browser prompt from `neon login`, or create an API key in the Console under Account settings > API keys."
      ],
      "agent_access": [
        {
          "method": "cli-login",
          "install": "npm i -g neon@latest",
          "command": "neon login",
          "token_url": null,
          "env_var": null,
          "notes": "Opens a browser for the human to approve; credentials are saved to ~/.config/neon/credentials.json."
        },
        {
          "method": "api-key",
          "install": null,
          "command": null,
          "token_url": "https://console.neon.tech",
          "env_var": "NEON_API_KEY",
          "notes": "Create under Account settings > API keys; the key is shown only once. The CLI uses it instead of `neon login`."
        },
        {
          "method": "connection-string",
          "install": null,
          "command": "neon connection-string --pooled",
          "token_url": "https://console.neon.tech",
          "env_var": "DATABASE_URL",
          "notes": "Or copy it from the Connect button in the Console; the -pooler host enables connection pooling."
        }
      ],
      "verify": "neon me",
      "try_without_account": {
        "command": "neon claim create --env-pull",
        "expires": "Unclaimed projects expire after 72 hours and are capped at 100 MB storage and 1 GB transfer until claimed.",
        "claim": "The human runs `neon claim accept`, which opens the claim page (`--no-open` prints the URL instead); each claim code lasts 15 minutes.",
        "notes": "Writes the connection details to `.env`. Functions, Object Storage and AI Gateway stay unavailable until the project is claimed."
      }
    },
    "docs": {
      "quickstart": "https://neon.com/docs/get-started/with-an-agent",
      "llms_txt": "https://neon.com/llms.txt"
    },
    "sources": [
      "https://neon.com/pricing",
      "https://neon.com/docs/introduction/plans",
      "https://neon.com/faqs/free-plan-limits-and-quotas",
      "https://neon.com/docs/changelog/2026-10-02",
      "https://neon.com/blog/neon-free-plan-1-gb-per-project",
      "https://neon.com/docs/introduction/scale-to-zero",
      "https://neon.com/docs/get-started/production-checklist",
      "https://neon.com/docs/reference/cli-install",
      "https://neon.com/docs/cli/install.md",
      "https://neon.com/docs/cli/login.md",
      "https://neon.com/docs/cli/connection-string.md",
      "https://neon.com/docs/reference/neon-cli",
      "https://neon.com/docs/manage/api-keys",
      "https://neon.com/faqs/find-or-generate-neon-api-keys",
      "https://neon.com/docs/manage/accounts",
      "https://neon.com/docs/connect/connect-from-any-app",
      "https://neon.com/docs/get-started/with-an-agent",
      "https://neon.com/auth.md",
      "https://neon.com/terms-of-service",
      "https://neon.com/llms.txt",
      "https://neon.com/docs/reference/claimable-neon"
    ],
    "last_verified": "2026-10-28",
    "sponsored": false,
    "links": {
      "page": "https://freetier.tech/s/neon/",
      "markdown": "https://freetier.tech/s/neon.md",
      "json": "https://freetier.tech/api/v1/services/neon.json"
    }
  }
}