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Neon for platforms

Use Neon to build your free tier for a fraction of the cost.

Neon is a cost-effective option for managing fleets of Postgres instances. Why? Because of its usage-based pricing and scale-to-zero. Via its developer-friendly API, you can run thousands of Postgres databases without a DBA.

Companies like Retool, Vercel, Replit, and Koyeb are already using Neon to offer Postgres to their end-users. To get an estimate for your platform, reach out to us.

Use case

Costs estimator

Pied Piper, a developer platform, wants to give one managed Postgres database to each one of their end users.

Pied Piper.'s users fall into two categories: companies with Pro accounts, storing an average of 20 GB, and hobbyists on the Free plan, storing an average of 0.5 GB.

Use case

  • Number of users

  • % of Pro accounts vs Free. If this doesn't apply, select 0.

  • How many hours/week do the Free Plan users run the DB?

  • How many hours/week do the Pro users run the DB?

Monthly cost: AWS RDS vs Neon

AWS RDS

$26,770

Neon

$8,014

Total cost-savings

70%

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