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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Our take
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. Pick Nile if b2B app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (50 million query tokens, 1 GB) while they open a first Tenants list, then buy Pro at $15 / month when they want 150 million tokens, 5 GB, and the 99.95% SLA.
Best for
Neon Postgres metered in CU-hours and GB
Nile Tenant-isolated Postgres you start at $0
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
Nile $0 · no pauses. 50 million query tokens, then $0.06 per million. 1 GB storage, then $1.50 / GB. 500 connections. Unlimited databases, tenant DBs, embeddings, users, tenants. Community support. Tenant insights 1 day
Lowest paid
Neon Launch $0.106
Nile Usage meters on the calculator we fetched $1.00
Next step up
Neon Scale $0.222
Nile Pro $15
Coding agent
Neon Branching
Nile
Runs where
Neon
Nile Hosted
Watch out
Neon Free suspends when CU-hours or 5 GB egress are gone
Nile Free is 50 million query tokens and 1 GB
Last checked
Neon 2026-10-22 · neon.com/pricing
Nile 2026-10-23 · thenile.dev/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Nile if
b2B app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (50 million query tokens, 1 GB) while they open a first Tenants list, then buy Pro at $15 / month when they want 150 million tokens, 5 GB, and the 99.95% SLA.
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