PlanetScale vs Neon

Side-by-side database cost comparison — enter your storage and compute workload and see which provider is cheaper.

Database pricing is highly variable. Costs depend on query patterns, IOPS, connection pooling, and plan-specific limits this calculator cannot fully model. Treat these as order-of-magnitude estimates.

1. Pick a workload

Choose the preset closest to your database size.

2. Fine-tune (optional)

Override the preset with your real numbers.

PlanetScale is cheaper by $12.91/mo (18%) for this workload.

PlanetScalePostgres

Lower cost

$60.25/mo

PS-80 cluster (single node)

PS-80: 8 GB RAM, arm64

$49.00

Storage

90.0 GB overage × $0.125/GB (10 GB included)

$11.25

Egress

30 GB — within 100 GB included

incl.

Cluster: PS-80 (8 GB RAM). Selected as nearest cluster for 2 GB RAM target. Single-node cluster. For production workloads, consider upgrading to HA ($148/mo). Optional: dedicated PgBouncer connection pooler ($18–$933/mo) not included.

Rates verified 2026-05 — PlanetScale pricing page

NeonLaunch

$73.16/mo

Platform fee

No monthly minimum — pay-as-you-go

incl.

Compute (0.5 CU × 720h)

0.5 CU × 720 hrs × $0.106/CU-hr

$38.16

Storage

100 GB × $0.35/GB-mo

$35.00

Egress

30 GB — within 100 GB included

incl.

Compute: 0.5 CU = 0.5 vCPU, 2 GB RAM. Always-on: 720 active hours/month billed at full CU rate.

Rates verified 2026-05 — Neon pricing page

What PlanetScale excels at

Millisecond-level billing: clusters are billed to the millisecond — no wasted spending on idle resources.
HA clusters: 3-node HA available from $15/month — zero single-point-of-failure.
Dedicated PgBouncer: connection pooling as a separate managed instance, not shared.
Multiple cloud regions: 24+ regions across AWS and GCP.
No vendor lock-in: standard Postgres — migrate in and out with pg_dump/pg_restore.

What Neon excels at

Scale-to-zero: database suspends after 5 min of inactivity — pay only for active hours.
Branching: instant database branches for feature dev, staging, and testing.
Autoscaling: compute scales from 0.25 CU up to 16 CU within seconds.
Instant restore: point-in-time restore at $0.20/GB-month, no backup window needed.
Postgres-native: no proprietary APIs — standard Postgres connection string, works with every ORM.

Compatible

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