Our take
Pick DBeaver if developers who will stay on Community free while they run a first Customer/Invoice join — then Lite at $113/yr when they need the visual query builder, 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 writes or
Best for
DBeaver A query you start at a public $
Neon Postgres metered in CU-hours and GB
Free plan
DBeaver 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
DBeaver Lite $113/mo
Neon Launch $0.106
Next step up
DBeaver Ultimate $510/yr
Neon Scale $0.222
Coding agent
DBeaver
Neon Branching
Runs where
DBeaver Hosted
Neon
Watch out
DBeaver Community lacks PRO cloud / enterprise connectors
Neon Free suspends when CU-hours or 5 GB egress are gone
Last checked
DBeaver 2026-10-23 · dbeaver.com/edition
Neon 2026-10-22 · neon.com/pricing
developers who will stay on Community free while they run a first Customer/Invoice join — then Lite at $113/yr when they need the visual query builder, not Supabase’s Free $0 hosted editor first unless they want a hosted nest.
Read the DBeaver 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
