Pick Gel if
app teams who will stay on Cloud Free at $0 / month (1/4 compute unit, 1 GB disk) while they open a first instance dashboard, then buy Pro at $19.50 / month when they need 1 GiB RAM, 10 GiB storage, and email support.
Read the Gel pageGel vs Neon
Our take
Pick Gel if app teams who will stay on Cloud Free at $0 / month (1/4 compute unit, 1 GB disk) while they open a first instance dashboard, then buy Pro at $19.50 / month when they need 1 GiB RAM, 10 GiB storage, and email support. 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 idle-always-on
Best for
Gel A schema-plus-query instance you start at $0
Neon Postgres metered in CU-hours and GB
Free plan
Gel $0 · / month. 1/4 compute unit (1/2 GiB RAM, 1/16 vCPU). Up to 1 GB disk. Encryption at rest. Community support
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
Gel Pro $19.50
Neon Launch $0.106
Next step up
Gel
Neon Scale $0.222
Coding agent
Gel
Neon Branching
Runs where
Gel Hosted
Neon
Watch out
Gel Free is 1/4 compute unit and 1 GB disk
Neon Free suspends when CU-hours or 5 GB egress are gone
Last checked
Gel 2026-10-23 · geldata.com/pricing
Neon 2026-10-22 · neon.com/pricing
Which one, then?
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 idle-always-on matter.
Read the Neon page