Neon vs Supabase
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Neon and Supabase built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
Choose Neon if…
Workloads that are idle most of the time, and teams who want a real database per pull request. Compute suspends after five minutes and storage is billed separately, so a staging branch costs almost nothing while nobody is using it.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose Supabase if…
Teams who want Postgres plus auth, storage and generated APIs from one vendor on a fixed monthly bill, and who would otherwise assemble those pieces themselves.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- Neon: You need predictable monthly billing. Usage pricing with no minimum fee cuts both ways, and a runaway query on an autoscaling compute is billed at the rate it ran.
- Supabase: You want only a database. Much of the $25 covers a platform you may not use, and free projects are paused after a week of inactivity, which is not the same as scaling to zero.
Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Neon alternatives · Supabase alternatives
17 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
Neon 0
Supabase 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Neon | Supabase |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Kind of free offer | Free tier | Free tier |
| What the free plan includes | 100 projects with 10 branches each, plus allowances for compute and storage, at no monthly cost. | 500 MB database, 5 GB egress, 1 GB file storage, 50,000 monthly active users and unlimited API requests on shared CPU. Free projects pause after a week without activity. |
| Entry paid plan | No fixed monthly fee. Launch is usage-based — Neon's own worked example puts typical spend at $15/month for intermittent load on 1 GB — so there is no entry price to compare, only a rate card. Recorded without a magnitude because a vendor's spend estimate is not a price. | $25/month for Pro, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits — enough to cover one Micro instance, so this runs a small project rather than being a fee on top of it. Additional projects from $10/mo. |
| Pricing model | Usage-based with no minimum monthly fee on paid plans: $0.106/CU-hour compute and $0.35/GB-month storage on Launch, $0.222/CU-hour on Scale | Fixed monthly plan per organisation plus per-project compute, billed hourly by instance size |
| Egress over allowance | 5 GB per project included on Free; 500 GB per project included on Launch and Scale, then $0.10/GB | $0.09 per GB for uncached egress and $0.03 per GB for cached, charged only above the plan's quota. Egress restrictions clear at the next billing cycle, or immediately on upgrading or disabling the spend cap. |
| Limits | ||
| Storage (entry plan) | No included allowance on the Launch plan; storage is metered at $0.35/GB-month. The Free plan includes 0.5 GB per project. | 8 GB disk per project on the Pro plan; 500 MB on Free |
| Execution | ||
| Managed connection pooling | Supported | Supported — Shared pooler on every plan, IPv4-only; the dedicated pooler is paid plans only. |
| Infrastructure | ||
| Regions | 8 AWS regions: N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Sydney, São Paulo. A project's region is fixed at creation and cannot be changed. | 17 specific AWS regions across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America, plus broader 'general region' groupings that place the project on an available AWS region within an area. General regions do not support read replicas or API management. |
| Data | ||
| Engine | PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL |
| Connection limit | Scales with compute size: 104 direct connections at 0.25 CU (1 GB RAM), 419 at 1 CU, 2517 at 6 CU; up to 10,000 through the pooler | 60 direct and 200 pooled connections on the Micro instance included with Pro; both scale with instance size |
| When idle | Compute suspends after 5 minutes idle on Free and Launch, and can be disabled on Launch; configurable from 1 minute to always-on on Scale. The database is not deleted or paused — the next query restarts the compute. | Free projects are paused after one week of inactivity and must be restored manually; paid projects are not paused |
| Database branching | Supported | Supported |
| Point-in-time recovery | History window of 6 hours up to 1 GB-month on Free, up to 7 days on Launch, up to 30 days on Scale | Point-in-time recovery is a paid add-on on Pro, Team and Enterprise, and needs at least a Small compute add-on alongside it. Worst-case recovery point is 2 minutes. Without it, restores go back only to a daily backup. |
| Read replicas | Supported | Supported |
| Backup retention | 1 day of history on paid plans by default and 6 hours on Free, configurable up to 7 days on Launch or 30 days on Scale. Neon notes that widening the window raises storage cost, so the ceiling is a paid choice rather than an included allowance. | Daily backups: 7 days on Pro, 14 days on Team, up to 30 days on Enterprise. Free projects get no automatic backups at all — Supabase tells free users to export their own data with the CLI. |
| Support | ||
| Support on entry paid plan | Support plans are mapped to pricing plans: community support on Free, billing support on Launch, standard support on Scale. | Community support on Free; email support on Pro, the entry paid plan; priority email support and SLAs from Team; a designated support manager and 24/7/365 premium support on Enterprise. |
| Compliance | ||
| SOC 2 | Annual SOC 2 Type II audits by an accredited independent third party. | SOC 2 Type 2 compliant; report available to Enterprise and Team customers via the dashboard. |
| ISO 27001 | Annual ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 27701:2019 audits. | ISO 27001 certified; certificate available to Enterprise and Team customers via the dashboard. |
| HIPAA | HIPAA compliance achieved, to support customers handling protected health information (PHI). | HIPAA compliant; customers may store PHI after signing a BAA and meeting shared-responsibility obligations. |
| GDPR / data residency | Follows the GDPR framework; Data Processing Agreements (DPA) offered. | Projects hosted in EU regions keep primary database data in-region; a DPA is available. |
| Encryption at rest | AES-256, with key rotation policies. | AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit; sensitive tokens/keys get application-level encryption before storage. |
| Role-based access control | Access to production systems is role-based, requiring SSO and continuous monitoring. | Organization members can be granted access to specific resources, including read-only and billing-only roles. |
Where they differ.
What the free plan includes
- Neon
- 100 projects with 10 branches each, plus allowances for compute and storage, at no monthly cost.
- Supabase
- 500 MB database, 5 GB egress, 1 GB file storage, 50,000 monthly active users and unlimited API requests on shared CPU. Free projects pause after a week without activity.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Neon Plans ↗
“You get usage allowances for projects, branches, compute, storage, and more, for $0/month. [...] Included per plan: Free: 100 projects”
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- Supabase Pricing ↗
“unlimited api requests 50,000 monthly active users 500 mb database size shared cpu • 500 mb ram 5 gb egress 5 gb cached egress 1 gb file storage community support Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity.”
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Entry paid plan
- Neon
- No fixed monthly fee. Launch is usage-based — Neon's own worked example puts typical spend at $15/month for intermittent load on 1 GB — so there is no entry price to compare, only a rate card. Recorded without a magnitude because a vendor's spend estimate is not a price.
- Supabase
- $25/month for Pro, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits — enough to cover one Micro instance, so this runs a small project rather than being a fee on top of it. Additional projects from $10/mo.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Neon ↗
“Launch Usage-based Typical spend: $ 15 /mo Based on: Intermittent load , 1 GB Get started”
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- Supabase Pricing ↗
“$25/month [...] First project included. Additional projects from $10/mo. [...] Paid plans include $10/mo in compute credits, enough to cover one Micro instance.”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
Pricing model
- Neon
- Usage-based with no minimum monthly fee on paid plans: $0.106/CU-hour compute and $0.35/GB-month storage on Launch, $0.222/CU-hour on Scale
- Supabase
- Fixed monthly plan per organisation plus per-project compute, billed hourly by instance size
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Neon plans — Neon Docs ↗
“On Launch and Scale plans, you pay only for what you use; there's no minimum monthly fee. Usage for compute, storage, extra branches, and other features is billed at the published rates”
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- Pricing & Fees — Supabase ↗
“First project included. Additional projects from $10/mo. [...] Paid plans include $10/mo in compute credits, enough to cover one Micro instance.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official pricing · Report a correction
Egress over allowance
- Neon
- 5 GB per project included on Free; 500 GB per project included on Launch and Scale, then $0.10/GB
- Supabase
- $0.09 per GB for uncached egress and $0.03 per GB for cached, charged only above the plan's quota. Egress restrictions clear at the next billing cycle, or immediately on upgrading or disabling the spend cap.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Neon plans — Neon Docs ↗
“Public network transfer 5 GB per project included 500 GB per project included, then $0.10/GB 500 GB per project included, then $0.10/GB”
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- Manage Egress usage — Supabase Docs ↗
“$0.09 per GB per month for uncached egress, $0.03 per GB per month for cached egress. You are only charged for usage exceeding your subscription plan's quota. [...] If your organization is restricted for egress, the restriction clears at the start of the next billing cycle, or immediately if you upgrade your plan or disable your Spend Cap.”
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Storage (entry plan)
- Neon
- No included allowance on the Launch plan; storage is metered at $0.35/GB-month. The Free plan includes 0.5 GB per project.
- Supabase
- 8 GB disk per project on the Pro plan; 500 MB on Free
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Neon plans — Neon Docs ↗
“Storage 0.5 GB/project $0.35/GB-month $0.35/GB-month”
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- Pricing & Fees — Supabase ↗
“8 GB disk size per project”
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Regions
8 AWS regions: N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Sydney, São Paulo. A project's region is fixed at creation and cannot be changed.
17 specific AWS regions across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America, plus broader 'general region' groupings that place the project on an available AWS region within an area. General regions do not support read replicas or API management.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Regions — Neon Docs ↗
“Each Neon project exists in exactly one region. Your database runs in that region. You cannot change the region for an existing project. If you need your data in a different region, you create a new Neon project in that region and migrate your database there.”
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- Available regions — Supabase Docs ↗
“Each Supabase project is deployed to one primary region. [...] General regions deploy to an available AWS region within that broader area, which may not match a specific jurisdiction. For example, the "Europe" general region includes London and Zurich, which are not EU member states. Region selection is a data-location control, not proof of regulatory compliance. [...] General regions aren't yet supported for read replicas or management via the API.”
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Connection limit
Scales with compute size: 104 direct connections at 0.25 CU (1 GB RAM), 419 at 1 CU, 2517 at 6 CU; up to 10,000 through the pooler
60 direct and 200 pooled connections on the Micro instance included with Pro; both scale with instance size
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Connection pooling — Neon Docs ↗
“Neon uses PgBouncer to provide connection pooling, enabling up to 10,000 concurrent connections. [...] In Neon, this limit is defined by max_connections, which varies by compute size: Compute size (CU) RAM max_connections 0.25 1 GB 104 0.50 2 GB 209 1 4 GB 419”
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- Pricing & Fees — Supabase ↗
“1 GB RAM / 2-core ARM CPU / Connections: Direct 60, Pooler 200”
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When idle
- Neon
- Compute suspends after 5 minutes idle on Free and Launch, and can be disabled on Launch; configurable from 1 minute to always-on on Scale. The database is not deleted or paused — the next query restarts the compute.
- Supabase
- Free projects are paused after one week of inactivity and must be restored manually; paid projects are not paused
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Neon plans — Neon Docs ↗
“Scale to zero After 5 min After 5 min, can be disabled Configurable (1 minute to always on)”
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- Pricing & Fees — Supabase ↗
“Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity. Limit of 2 active projects.”
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Point-in-time recovery
- Neon
- History window of 6 hours up to 1 GB-month on Free, up to 7 days on Launch, up to 30 days on Scale
- Supabase
- Point-in-time recovery is a paid add-on on Pro, Team and Enterprise, and needs at least a Small compute add-on alongside it. Worst-case recovery point is 2 minutes. Without it, restores go back only to a daily backup.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Neon plans — Neon Docs ↗
“History window 6 hours, up to 1 GB-month Up to 7 days Up to 30 days”
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- Database Backups — Supabase Docs ↗
“Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) allows you to back up a project at shorter intervals, giving you the option to restore to any chosen point with up to seconds of granularity. [...] Pro, Team and Enterprise Plan projects can enable PITR as an add-on. Projects that want to use PITR must also use at least a Small compute add-on to ensure smooth functioning. [...] in the worst case scenario, PITR achieves a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of two minutes.”
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Backup retention
- Neon
- 1 day of history on paid plans by default and 6 hours on Free, configurable up to 7 days on Launch or 30 days on Scale. Neon notes that widening the window raises storage cost, so the ceiling is a paid choice rather than an included allowance.
- Supabase
- Daily backups: 7 days on Pro, 14 days on Team, up to 30 days on Enterprise. Free projects get no automatic backups at all — Supabase tells free users to export their own data with the CLI.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Point-in-time restore — Neon Docs ↗
“Neon retains a history of changes for your branches, with defaults of 6 hours on Free plan and 1 day on paid plans. [...] You can configure it up to 7 days on Launch or 30 days on Scale plans.”
Read 2026-09-07 · official docs · Report a correction
- Database Backups — Supabase Docs ↗
“We automatically back up all Pro, Team, and Enterprise Plan projects on a daily basis. [...] Pro Plan projects can access the last 7 days of daily backups. Team Plan projects can access the last 14 days of daily backups, while Enterprise Plan projects can access up to 30 days of daily backups. [...] We recommend that free tier plan projects regularly export their data using the Supabase CLI db dump command and maintain off-site backups.”
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Support on entry paid plan
- Neon
- Support plans are mapped to pricing plans: community support on Free, billing support on Launch, standard support on Scale.
- Supabase
- Community support on Free; email support on Pro, the entry paid plan; priority email support and SLAs from Team; a designated support manager and 24/7/365 premium support on Enterprise.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Support — Neon Docs ↗
“neon's support plans are mapped to neon pricing plans, as outlined in the following table. neon pricing plan support plan options free plan community support launch plan billing support scale plan standard support”
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- Supabase Pricing ↗
“1 GB file storage Community support [...] 100 GB file storage then $0.0213 per GB Email support Daily backups stored for 7 days [...] Priority email support & SLAs Daily backups stored for 14 days”
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SOC 2
- Neon
- Annual SOC 2 Type II audits by an accredited independent third party.
- Supabase
- SOC 2 Type 2 compliant; report available to Enterprise and Team customers via the dashboard.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Neon Security ↗
“Neon undergoes annual SOC 2 Type II audits performed by accredited independent third party auditors.”
Read 2026-09-12 · official site · Report a correction
- Supabase Security ↗
“Supabase is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant.”
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ISO 27001
- Neon
- Annual ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 27701:2019 audits.
- Supabase
- ISO 27001 certified; certificate available to Enterprise and Team customers via the dashboard.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Neon Security ↗
“Neon undergoes annual ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 27701:2019 audits for its security and privacy management systems.”
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- Supabase Security ↗
“Supabase is ISO 27001 certified.”
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HIPAA
- Neon
- HIPAA compliance achieved, to support customers handling protected health information (PHI).
- Supabase
- HIPAA compliant; customers may store PHI after signing a BAA and meeting shared-responsibility obligations.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Neon Security ↗
“Neon has achieved HIPAA compliance to support customers handling protected health information (PHI).”
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- Supabase Security ↗
“Supabase is HIPAA compliant.”
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GDPR / data residency
- Neon
- Follows the GDPR framework; Data Processing Agreements (DPA) offered.
- Supabase
- Projects hosted in EU regions keep primary database data in-region; a DPA is available.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Neon Security ↗
“Neon follows the GDPR framework, ensuring user rights, data minimization, and lawful processing. We offer Data Processing Agreements (DPA) and support compliant cross-border data transfers.”
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- Supabase Security ↗
“Supabase supports GDPR-compliant deployments. Projects hosted in EU regions keep your primary database data in-region, and a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is available for customers who need a formal data processing contract under GDPR.”
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Encryption at rest
- Neon
- AES-256, with key rotation policies.
- Supabase
- AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit; sensitive tokens/keys get application-level encryption before storage.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Neon Security ↗
“All stored data is encrypted using AES-256 and follows key rotation policies to maintain security.”
Read 2026-09-12 · official site · Report a correction
- Supabase Security ↗
“All customer data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit via TLS.”
Read 2026-09-12 · official site · Report a correction
Role-based access control
- Neon
- Access to production systems is role-based, requiring SSO and continuous monitoring.
- Supabase
- Organization members can be granted access to specific resources, including read-only and billing-only roles.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Neon Security ↗
“Access to production systems is role-based (RBAC), requiring SSO and continuous monitoring.”
Read 2026-09-12 · official site · Report a correction
- Supabase Security ↗
“Members of organizations in Supabase can be granted access to specific resources.”
Read 2026-09-12 · official site · Report a correction
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.
Questions this comparison answers.
Entry paid plan: Neon or Supabase?
Neon: No fixed monthly fee. Launch is usage-based — Neon's own worked example puts typical spend at $15/month for intermittent load on 1 GB — so there is no entry price to compare, only a rate card. Recorded without a magnitude because a vendor's spend estimate is not a price.
Supabase: $25/month for Pro, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits — enough to cover one Micro instance, so this runs a small project rather than being a fee on top of it. Additional projects from $10/mo.
Egress over allowance: Neon or Supabase?
Neon: 5 GB per project included on Free; 500 GB per project included on Launch and Scale, then $0.10/GB
Supabase: $0.09 per GB for uncached egress and $0.03 per GB for cached, charged only above the plan's quota. Egress restrictions clear at the next billing cycle, or immediately on upgrading or disabling the spend cap.
Storage (entry plan): Neon or Supabase?
Neon: No included allowance on the Launch plan; storage is metered at $0.35/GB-month. The Free plan includes 0.5 GB per project.
Supabase: 8 GB disk per project on the Pro plan; 500 MB on Free
Should I choose Neon or Supabase?
Pick Neon if Workloads that are idle most of the time, and teams who want a real database per pull request. Compute suspends after five minutes and storage is billed separately, so a staging branch costs almost nothing while nobody is using it.
Pick Supabase if Teams who want Postgres plus auth, storage and generated APIs from one vendor on a fixed monthly bill, and who would otherwise assemble those pieces themselves.
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