Pricing estimation guide

You can use this guide to estimate your monthly bill with Neon based on your selected plan and estimated usage.

1. Select your plan and note the monthly fee
2. Estimate your usage
3. Calculate extra usage fees (if applicable)
4. Total monthly estimate

Step 1: Select a plan and note the monthly fee

First, select a plan that best fits your requirements. Look closely at monthly fees, plan allowances, and the features that come with each plan. You can refer to our Plans page or the Neon Pricing page, which provides fees and a detailed plan comparison.

This table provides an overview of plan fees with allowances for storage, archive storage, compute, and projects:

Step 2: Estimate your usage

Estimate your monthly usage to see if any "extra usage" is required beyond the storage, compute, or project allowances included in your plan.

• Storage (GB-month): How much storage do you expect to use? This includes:
  • The logical data size of your data
  • The size of your history, determined by your history retention setting in Neon and the volume of insert, update, and delete operations written to your history. See Storage.
• Archive Storage (GB-month): How much archive storage do you expect to use?
  • Branches older than 14 days and not accessed for the past 24 hours are moved to cost-efficient archive storage automatically. For more, see Branch archiving.
  • This will only apply if you have branches that are not accessed regularly.
• Compute (Hours): How many compute hours will you require? A compute hour is 1 active hour on a compute with 1 vCPU. Neon supports compute sizes ranging from .25 vCPU to 56 vCPU. See Compute for a compute hour formula you can use to estimate your compute usage.
• Projects: How many projects do you need? Neon recommends a project per application. Most users do no exceed Neon's project allowances.

Step 3: Calculate extra usage fees

Based on your usage estimates, calculate the fees for storage, archive storage, compute hours, and projects.

For the Launch plan:

The Launch plan supports extra Storage, Archive Storage, and Compute. If you need extra projects, you'll need to move up to the Scale or Business plan.

• Extra Storage: If you exceed 10 GB, extra storage is $1.75 per GB-month.
• Extra Archive Storage: If you exceed x GB, extra storage is $0.10 per GB-month.
• Extra Compute: If you exceed 300 compute hours, extra compute is billed at $0.16 per compute hour.

For the Scale plan:

The Scale plan supports extra Storage, Archive Storage, Compute, and Projects.

• Extra Storage: If you exceed 50 GB, extra storage is $1.50 per GB-month.
• Extra Archive Storage: If you exceed x GB, extra storage is $0.10 per GB-month.
• Extra Compute: If you exceed 750 compute hours, extra compute is billed at $0.16 per compute hour.
• Extra Projects: If you exceed 50 projects, extra projects are allocated in units of 500 projects at $50 per unit.

For the Business plan:

The Business plan supports extra Storage, Archive Storage, Compute, and Projects.

• Extra Storage: If you exceed 500 GB, extra storage is $0.50 per GB-month.
• Extra Archive Storage: If you exceed x GB, extra storage is $0.10 per GB-month.
• Extra Compute: If you exceed 1,000 compute hours, extra compute is billed at $0.16 per compute hour.
• Extra Projects: If you exceed 5000 projects, extra projects are allocated in units of 5000 projects at $50 per unit.

Step 4: Total monthly estimate

Add up your plan's monthly fee and extra usage fees to estimate your total monthly bill.

Total Estimate = Plan Fee + Extra Storage Fee + Extra Archive Storage Fee + Extra Compute Fee + Extra Project Fee

Launch plan example

Scale plan example

Business plan example

For more examples, see Extra usage.

Feedback

We’re always looking for ways to improve our pricing model to make it as developer-friendly as possible. If you have feedback for us, let us know via the Feedback form in the Neon Console or our feedback channel on Discord. We read and consider every submission.