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A monthly Neon bill split into compute, storage, branches, restore history and data out, on the Launch or Scale plan, next to the same database left running all month.
What does a small Neon database cost a month? (prices checked 2026-11-03)
On Launch, a 0.5 CU compute that runs 10 hours a day uses 150 CU-hours, which is $15.90 at $0.106 each. Add 10 GB of storage at $0.35 ($3.50) and 3 GB of restore history at $0.20 ($0.60) and the month comes to $20.00. Leave the same compute running all month and the compute line alone is $38.69. Neon has no monthly minimum, so the bill is only usage.
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Prices from neon.com/pricing, checked 2026-11-03, for one project and a 30-day month. Storage $0.35 per GB-month on both plans; instant restore history $0.20 per GB-month (root branches); scheduled snapshots $0.09 per GB-month; branches beyond 10 (Launch) or 25 (Scale) $1.50 each a month; 500 GB of data out included per project, then $0.10 per GB. Compute is billed only while it runs, and scales to zero after 5 idle minutes unless you turn that off.
Why the compute line grows
Neon bills compute by the CU-hour: the size of the compute times the hours it runs. That makes the hours the number to watch. A compute that scales to zero overnight and on quiet weekends costs a fraction of one that never stops, and anything that keeps it awake, like a health check every minute, a cron job, a connection pool that pings, or a dashboard someone left open, quietly turns a part-time database into a full-time one. Autoscaling works the same way upward: if the compute is allowed to grow to 4 CU and a heavy query keeps it there, every hour at 4 CU costs eight times an hour at 0.5 CU.
Storage is the slower line. The main branch is billed on its full size, child branches start at $0 and grow with what you write on them, and the restore window adds the change history it has to keep. A busy database with a long history window can pay more for history than for its data.
The Neon pricing guide walks through the plans and the Free plan limits, and the managed Postgres comparison puts the same database on Supabase, Fly.io, Render, Railway and RDS. If your database bill doesn't match this page, the free cloud cost audit is $0 and we'll tell you why.