Free AI from Neon

Neon Startup Program · $200,000

Neon's startup program, run as part of the Databricks Startup Program, gives self-funded startups up to $1,000 in Neon credits and venture-backed startups up to $200,000 in Neon and Databricks credits, valid for 12 months.

The catch: Credits expire 12 months from acceptance; after that your account moves to your selected plan with normal billing. No commitment to stay.

• Credits valid 12 months from date of acceptance
• Self-funded tier: up to $1,000 (under $1M funding, early-stage product or MVP)
• Venture-backed tier: up to $200K in Neon and Databricks credits ($1M+ funding or recognized accelerator)
• Applications reviewed on a rolling basis; no deadline

Neon Free Plan · 100 hours/month

Neon's permanent Free plan gives up to 100 serverless Postgres projects with pgvector, each with 100 CU-hours of compute a month, 1 GB of storage and autoscaling up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM), with no credit card.

The catch: Compute always scales to zero after 5 minutes idle and stops until the next billing period once a project uses its 100 CU-hours; writes are blocked past 1 GB per project or 20 GB in total.

• Up to 100 projects, 10 branches each
• 100 CU-hours of compute per project per month
• Autoscaling up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM); scale to zero after 5 minutes, always on
• 1 GB storage per project, 20 GB per account
• 5 GB egress per project
• 6-hour restore history, 1 manual snapshot
• Compute suspends until the next billing period when CU-hours or egress run out
• Community support

Neon Startup Program

• No credit card needed.
• Needs an account sign-up.

Neon Free Plan

• No credit card needed.
• Needs an account sign-up.