Our take
Pick Beekeeper Studio if developers who will stay on Community free while they run a first film query — then Indie at $9/mo yearly when they need JSON sidebar / import-export, not Supabase’s Free $0 hosted editor first unless they want a hosted nest. Pick Neon if builders who will stay on Free $0 (100 CU-hours/project, 1 GB, 10 branches), then move to Launch (pay-as-you-go, $0.106/CU-hour, $0.35/GB-month) when
Best for
Beekeeper Studio A query you start at a public $
Neon Postgres metered in CU-hours and GB
Free plan
Beekeeper Studio No free plan
Neon $0 · 100 projects. 10 branches/project. 100 CU-hours/project. Autoscaling up to 2 CU. Scale-to-zero after 5 min (cannot disable). 1 GB/project Postgres, 20 GB account. 5 GB egress/project. 6-hour history. 1 snapshot. Auth 60k MAU. 5 GB object storage. Functions: 10 active / 400 waiting Capacity-Hours, 1M invocations. Hitting CU or egress suspends compute until next cycle; storage cap blocks writes
Lowest paid
Beekeeper Studio Indie $9/mo yearly
Neon Launch $0.106
Next step up
Beekeeper Studio Professional $14/mo
Neon Scale $0.222
Coding agent
Beekeeper Studio
Neon Branching
Runs where
Beekeeper Studio Hosted
Neon
Watch out
Beekeeper Studio Community misses sync / team
Neon Free suspends when CU-hours or 5 GB egress are gone
Last checked
Beekeeper Studio 2026-10-23 · beekeeperstudio.io/pricing
Neon 2026-10-22 · neon.com/pricing
developers who will stay on Community free while they run a first film query — then Indie at $9/mo yearly when they need JSON sidebar / import-export, not Supabase’s Free $0 hosted editor first unless they want a hosted nest.
Read the Beekeeper Studio pagebuilders who will stay on Free $0 (100 CU-hours/project, 1 GB, 10 branches), then move to Launch (pay-as-you-go, $0.106/CU-hour, $0.35/GB-month) when writes or idle-always-on matter.
Read the Neon page
