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DB 4.6/10

Serverless Postgres, scale-to-zero, autoscaling; compute $0.14/CU-hour, storage $0.35/GB-month, 500 GB egress included on paid plans. Branching (10 branches/project).

Neon scores 4.6/10 for free value in DB. The main constraint: Paid — $5/mo minimum (usage-based Launch). Serverless Postgres, scale-to-zero, autoscaling; compute $0.14/CU-hour, storage $0.35/GB-month, 500 GB egress included on paid plans. Branching (10 branches/project).

Category DB Kind Paid plan

Free value score

4.6 / 10
Show the math
Overall 4.6/10
value = 4.6/100
weighted_components_v1
Capacity 1/10
value = 0 ×
fixed_log_v1
Operations 8.2/10
value = 8.2/100
policy_score_v1
Production fit 8/10
value = 8/100
policy_score_v1

Key metrics

0.001 GB Storage policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable included storage allowance is published in this item.
1 reads/mo Reads policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable monthly read allowance is published in this item.
1 writes/mo Writes policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable monthly write allowance is published in this item.
$5/mo min
$0.14/CU-hr
500 GB out

What you get

Paid — $5/mo minimum (usage-based Launch). Serverless Postgres, scale-to-zero, autoscaling; compute $0.14/CU-hour, storage $0.35/GB-month, 500 GB egress included on paid plans. Branching (10 branches/project).

Scale-to-zero means near-$0 when idle; ~7 CU-hours per $1 of compute — best for branchy, bursty Postgres where idle dominates

Gotchas

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Sources

paid value databases
Open service Source ← All DB

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