Neon vs Supabase

Neon: Serverless Postgres with branching. Supabase: Postgres database with auth, storage, and APIs.

Pricing, free tier, and features on this page come from each tool's own site. Google autocomplete (suggestqueries.google.com, client=firefox, hl=en) for "<tool> vs", fetched 2026-10-14; a pair is kept when the suggestion appears from both sides (2+ hits). Sorted by how much you can use for free (free or open source first, then free plan with paid tiers, then paid only), then by the number of documented features, then alphabetically. No ratings or reviews are used. Read the comparison methodology. How benchmark evidence is labeled.

	Neon	Supabase
What it is	Serverless Postgres with branching.	Postgres database with auth, storage, and APIs.
Category	Dev Tools	Dev Tools
Pricing	Freemium (free plan + paid tiers)	Freemium (free plan + paid tiers)
Free tier	Yes	Yes
Starting price	—	Paid plans from $25/month
Who it's for	For developers building apps and agents that need a Postgres backend.	Developers and teams building applications on Postgres.
Key features	Serverless Postgres with branching and separate storage and compute	Every project includes a full Postgres database
	Managed user authentication included in every database	User sign-ups and logins with row level security
	Serverless functions that run beside the database	Deploy custom code as edge functions without managing servers
	S3-compatible object storage that branches with each project	Store, organize, and serve large files
	One API for frontier and open-source AI models	Real-time data sync and ready-to-use REST APIs
Website	neon.tech	supabase.com

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