Neon Has a Free Serverless Postgres That Scales to Zero — Branch Your Database Like Git

The Postgres Hosting Problem RDS: $15/month minimum, always running. Supabase: great but opinionated. Self-hosted: backups, updates, scaling — all on you. Neon is serverless Postgres. Scales to zero when idle. Branch your database for development. Free tier: 0.5GB. What Neon Gives You Scale to Zero No traffic? No cost. Your database suspends after 5 minutes of inactivity and cold-starts in ~500ms. Database Branching # Create a branch from production — instant, copy-on-write neonctl branches create --name feature-auth # Each branch gets its own connection string # Test migrations without touching production data Like git branches for your database. Branch from production, test your migration, merge back. Standard Postgres import postgres from ' postgres ' ; const sql = postgres ( process . env . DATABASE_URL ); const users = await sql ` SELECT * FROM users WHERE active = true ` ; It's just Postgres. Every Postgres library works: Prisma, Drizzle, Knex, pg, postgres.js. Serverless Driver