The easiest move for Supabase users who want to stay on Postgres: a generous free plan with 100 projects and no weekly pause, billed by usage after that, though its auth, storage and realtime pieces are younger than Supabase's.
What it is
Neon is a serverless Postgres service, owned by Databricks since 2025 and now marketed as Lakebase Postgres. Storage and compute are separate, so a database can scale to zero when idle and wake on the next query, and you can create instant copy-on-write branches of a database for previews, tests and AI agents. Around the database Neon now offers Managed Better Auth (users stored in your own database), S3-compatible Object Storage, Functions, an AI Gateway and Realtime (in beta). Free: 100 projects, 1 GB of storage and 100 CU-hours of compute per project a month, up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM), auth for up to 60,000 monthly active users per project and 5 GB of object storage, with no credit card. Launch is usage-based at $0.106 per CU-hour and $0.35 per GB-month of storage (Neon puts typical spend at $15 a month); Scale is $0.222 per CU-hour, up to 56 CU, for production and compliance needs. Checked on neon.com November 13, 2026.
Best for
- Supabase users who want to keep Postgres and their SQL
- Preview and test databases per branch or pull request
- Side projects that sit idle most of the time
What we like
- Plain Postgres: schema, SQL and pg_dump backups move over unchanged
- Free plan covers 100 projects and scales to zero instead of pausing them
- Instant database branches for previews, tests and agents
What to watch
- Auth, storage, functions and realtime are newer than Supabase's, and realtime is still in beta
- A database woken from scale to zero adds latency to the first query
- Usage-based billing is harder to predict than a flat plan
- Managed service only: no supported self-hosted edition
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