Neon

Yes, Neon's Free tier includes 0.5GB storage, 190 compute hours/month, and branching. It's generous for development and small projects. Paid plans start at $19/month.

Neon Launch costs $19/month (10GB storage, 300 compute hours), Scale costs $69/month (50GB, 750 hours), and Enterprise is custom. Usage-based pricing for overages.

Neon is serverless Postgres with branching, auto-scaling, and instant databases. It separates compute and storage, so you only pay for resources when actively querying.

Neon branches create instant copies of your database for development, testing, or previews. Branches are copy-on-write, so they're fast and storage-efficient.

Yes, Neon works seamlessly with Prisma, Drizzle, and other ORMs. It's standard Postgres, so any Postgres-compatible tool works. Prisma's connection pooling is recommended.

Neon automatically suspends databases after inactivity to save costs. Cold starts take 300-500ms. You can disable auto-suspend on paid plans for always-on databases.

Both offer Postgres. Neon is purely database with advanced branching and serverless scaling. Supabase adds auth, storage, and real-time. Neon for DB-only; Supabase for fuller stack.