Pick Hex if
solo analysts who will stay on Community $0 (small compute, agent trial), then buy Professional at $36/Editor/month when they need Medium compute, Standard agent credits, and 30-day history.
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Our take
Pick Hex if solo analysts who will stay on Community $0 (small compute, agent trial), then buy Professional at $36/Editor/month when they need Medium compute, Standard agent credits, and 30-day history. 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.
Best for
Hex Trusted exploration you later ship as a data app
Neon Postgres metered in CU-hours and GB
Free plan
Hex 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
Hex Professional $36/mo
Neon Launch $0.106
Next step up
Hex
Neon Scale $0.222
Coding agent
Hex Hex agent
Neon Branching
Watch out
Hex Community is Small compute and an agent trial
Neon Free suspends when CU-hours or 5 GB egress are gone
Last checked
Hex 2026-10-22 · hex.tech/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.
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