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 Xata
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 Xata if teams who will stay on Cloud micro at $0.012 / hour + $0.28 / GB-month (no card) while they open a first Projects list, then size up to small / medium when a branch needs 2–4 GB RAM.
Best for
Neon Postgres metered in CU-hours and GB
Xata Copy-on-write branches you start without a per-branch fee
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
Xata No free plan
Lowest paid
Neon Launch $0.106
Xata Xata Cloud $0.012
Next step up
Neon Scale $0.222
Xata
Coding agent
Neon Branching
Xata
Runs where
Neon
Xata Hosted
Watch out
Neon Free suspends when CU-hours or 5 GB egress are gone
Xata Cloud $0.012 / hr is a running micro, not unlimited
Last checked
Neon 2026-10-22 · neon.com/pricing
Xata 2026-10-23 · xata.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Xata if
teams who will stay on Cloud micro at $0.012 / hour + $0.28 / GB-month (no card) while they open a first Projects list, then size up to small / medium when a branch needs 2–4 GB RAM.
Read the Xata page