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 pageNeon vs Redis
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 Redis if developers who will stay on Redis Cloud Free at $0 (30 MB) — or Insight against localhost — while they open a first Browser, then Essentials from $0.007/hour ($5/month) when they need 250 MB–100 GB and SSO.
Best for
Neon Postgres metered in CU-hours and GB
Redis A key browser 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
Redis $0 · for the server (redis/redis). You pay the host. Insight is a free desktop / web GUI
Lowest paid
Neon Launch $0.106
Redis Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Neon Scale $0.222
Redis
Coding agent
Neon Branching
Redis
Runs where
Neon
Redis Hosted
Watch out
Neon Free suspends when CU-hours or 5 GB egress are gone
Redis Free is 30 MB and one DB
Last checked
Neon 2026-10-22 · neon.com/pricing
Redis 2026-10-23 · redis.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Redis if
developers who will stay on Redis Cloud Free at $0 (30 MB) — or Insight against localhost — while they open a first Browser, then Essentials from $0.007/hour ($5/month) when they need 250 MB–100 GB and SSO.
Read the Redis page