Neon free tier and limits
Serverless Postgres that scales to zero when idle, with database branching. Works with any Postgres client or ORM (Prisma, Drizzle).
What the free plan gives you
- Up to 100 projects, no credit card required
- 100 CU-hours of compute per project per month
- 1 GB storage per project (20 GB total across projects)
- 5 GB egress per project; compute scales to zero after 5 minutes idle
Best for
Next.js or Node apps that just need a Postgres connection string.
Watch out
Neon does not pause free projects for inactivity, but compute is suspended if a project uses its 100 CU-hours or 5 GB egress for the month. Going over 1 GB of storage blocks writes.
Other database options
Supabase
Hosted Postgres with auth, storage, realtime and edge functions in one project. It is the backend Lovable and many Bolt apps connect to.
Free 500 MB database, 1 GB file storage, 5 GB egress plus 5 GB cached egress
Turso
Hosted SQLite-compatible databases. Lightweight enough to give every user or tenant their own database.
Free $0/month, no credit card required
Firebase (Cloud Firestore)
Google's app platform: Firestore document database, Auth, Hosting and Cloud Messaging. Common in apps built with Firebase Studio.
Free Spark plan: no payment method needed