Head to head
Supabase vs Neon
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
55/100Higher score | 54/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #2 | #6 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 65 | 78 |
| AI Authority | 59 | 42 |
| Web Authority | 27 | 25 |
| Expert Assessment | 66 | 64 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Pro from $25/mo (additional projects from $10/mo) · free tier: $0/mo: unlimited API requests, 50,000 MAU, 500 MB database, shared CPU/500 MB RAM, 5 GB egress, 5 GB cached egress, 1 GB file storage, community support; projects paused after 1 week of inactivity, max 2 active projects, no backups/PITR/branching | Launch: no monthly minimum — compute $0.106/CU-hour, storage $0.35/GB-month · free tier: Free plan is permanent, no credit card: 100 projects, 10 branches/project, 100 CU-hours/project, autoscaling to 2 CU (8 GB RAM), scale to zero after 5 min, 0.5 GB storage/project, 6-hour history window, 1 manual snapshot, 5 GB egress, up to 60k Auth MAU, community support; hitting any monthly limit suspends compute until next billing month |
| Pricing model | Subscription with usage-based add-ons | Usage-based (pay-as-you-go, metered hourly) with a permanent free tier |
| Best for | Small to mid-sized product teams with at least one SQL-comfortable engineer who need a relational database plus auth, storage and realtime from a single open-source vendor and want to ship fast. | Teams running many short-lived, mostly-idle Postgres databases — preview environments, per-PR branches, per-customer sandboxes — and startups or AI/agent builders with spiky load who want Postgres plus pgvector with no seat costs and no monthly minimum. |
| Avoid if | You are a non-technical builder, need SOC 2/ISO 27001/SSO/HIPAA at modest spend, require annual invoicing and procurement-friendly terms, want only a plain managed database, or cannot tolerate a billing dispute turning into a service suspension. | You run latency-critical low-traffic production apps (cold starts), steady-state high-utilisation workloads where there is no idle to reclaim at $0.222/CU-hour, need compliance or an SLA below the Scale tier, need more than 56 CU / 224 GB RAM, or must commit to a hard fixed monthly budget. |
| Markets | SMB, Startups, Mid-Market, Enterprise (custom tier) | Startups, SMB, Developers, Agencies, Enterprise (Scale plan), AI/agent platforms |
| Founded | — | 2021 |
| Headquarters | — | Menlo Park, California, United States |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.