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 TablePlus if indie developers who will pay Basic $99 once for one device while they run a first products query — then Standard at $129 for a second seat, not Supabase’s Free $0 hosted editor first unless they want a
Best for
Neon Postgres metered in CU-hours and GB
TablePlus A query you start at a public $
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
TablePlus No free plan
Lowest paid
Neon Launch $0.106
TablePlus Extra device $79 $59
Next step up
Neon Scale $0.222
TablePlus Basic $99
Coding agent
Neon Branching
TablePlus
Runs where
Neon
TablePlus Hosted
Watch out
Neon Free suspends when CU-hours or 5 GB egress are gone
TablePlus Free is trial-only
Last checked
Neon 2026-10-22 · neon.com/pricing
TablePlus 2026-10-23 · tableplus.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick TablePlus if
indie developers who will pay Basic $99 once for one device while they run a first products query — then Standard at $129 for a second seat, not Supabase’s Free $0 hosted editor first unless they want a hosted Postgres nest.
Read the TablePlus page