Neon and Supabase both hand you a real Postgres database in a couple of clicks, but their pricing pages read like different products. Neon leads with usage: you pay per compute-hour and per gigabyte-month, and the plan names mostly describe how much scale, security and support you can buy. Supabase leads with packages: a free project, a $25 a month Pro project and a $599 a month Team project, each with a fixed allowance that then meters out at published overage rates.
TL;DR
Neon bills compute and storage separately at $0.106 per CU-hour and $0.35 per GB-month, so idle databases cost close to nothing, and the free tier carries 100 projects. Supabase bundles Postgres with auth, storage and edge functions for a flat $25 a month on Pro, but free projects pause after a week. Choose Neon for bursty, branch-heavy work; choose Supabase to get the whole backend in one project.
The free tiers show the split. Neon's free plan includes 100 projects, 100 compute-hours a month per project, 1 GB of storage per project, compute sizes up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM), unlimited team members and 5 GB of object storage, and the page states there are no time limits and no credit card. Supabase's free plan allows up to 2 active projects with a 500 MB database, shared CPU with 500 MB RAM, 50,000 monthly active users, 5 GB of egress, 1 GB of file storage and unlimited API requests, and free projects are paused after one week of inactivity.
On the paid side Neon quotes typical spend rather than a flat rate: $15 a month on Launch for intermittent load at $0.106 per CU-hour and $0.35 per GB-month, and $701 a month on Scale for high load at $0.222 per CU-hour. Supabase's Pro plan is $25 for the first project, $10 for each extra project, then $0.00325 per monthly active user past 100,000, $0.125 per GB of disk past 8 GB and $0.09 per GB of egress past 250 GB.
| Feature | Neon | Supabase |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 100 projects, 1 GB storage each, 100 CU-hrs/month, sizes up to 2 CU | Up to 2 active projects, 500 MB database, shared CPU with 500 MB RAM |
| Free plan rules | No time limits, no credit card required | Free projects paused after 1 week of inactivity |
| Entry paid tier | Launch, usage-based; typical spend shown as $15/month | Pro, $25/month for the first project |
| Compute or database rate | $0.106 per CU-hour on Launch, $0.222 on Scale | Fixed plan size; disk billed at $0.125/GB past the included 8 GB |
| Storage rate | $0.35 per GB-month | $0.125/GB past 8 GB, plus 100 GB file storage on Pro |
| Usage overage | Billed on CU-hours and GB-month, no seat fee | $0.00325 per MAU past 100,000 and $0.09/GB egress past 250 GB |
| Top published tier | Scale: typical $701/month, up to 56 CU, SLAs, HIPAA, private network | Team: $599/month with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls |
| Vendor | Neon, part of the Databricks platform | Supabase, described on its site as the Postgres development platform |
Pick Neon if
Neon's pricing rewards databases that sleep. If you are running side projects, agent backends or apps with bursty load, the separate compute and storage charges plus a free tier of 100 projects keep the bill proportional to actual use. Teams that need branching workflows, instant restore and per-environment databases will get more out of Neon's model than out of a fixed project price, provided they accept a bill that moves with traffic.
Pick Supabase if
Supabase is the better fit if authentication, file storage, edge functions and realtime are part of the same product. The flat $25 Pro plan with published overage numbers is easier to forecast than a compute-hour estimate, and Row Level Security ships with auth in the database itself. Budget for the gap between Pro at $25 and Team at $599 if you will eventually need SSO or compliance paperwork.
We did not collect third-party reviews or user ratings for either service on this page; every figure above comes from Neon's and Supabase's own pricing and product pages, fetched on 14 October 2026.
Both start at $0. Neon's free tier is larger on project count (100 projects, 1 GB each) while Supabase's is larger on bundled services (auth, functions, storage in one project). On paid use, Neon charges $0.106 per CU-hour plus $0.35 per GB-month, so an intermittent-load database is quoted at $15 a month, while Supabase Pro is a flat $25 a month for the first project.
Yes. Both present a Postgres database as the core product: Neon sells Lakebase Postgres with storage-compute separation, and Supabase describes every project as a full Postgres database with 100% portability stated on its pricing page.
Neon puts branching at the centre of the product page, alongside instant restore and automatic instance sizing, and its pricing is built around many small databases. Supabase supports branching through its platform too, but the pricing page organises itself around one project per environment at $10 each extra on Pro.
On Supabase, free projects are paused after one week of inactivity and are limited to 2 active projects with 500 MB of database. On Neon, the free tier keeps 100 projects with 1 GB each and 100 CU-hours a month per project, with sizes up to 2 CU.
Both pages point that way: Supabase states projects are 100% portable, and Neon runs standard Postgres with per-GB-month storage pricing, so a dump and restore onto another Postgres host is the normal exit path.
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