Neon Has a Free Tier — Serverless Postgres With Branching, 512 MB Storage, and No Credit Card

Most developers still spin up a $15/mo Postgres instance on RDS or DigitalOcean for side projects. Then they forget about it. Then they get the bill. Neon gives you serverless Postgres that scales to zero. Free tier: 512 MB storage, 0.25 vCPU, database branching (like git for your database), and no credit card. Here's everything you get — and the code to start using it in 30 seconds. What's in the Free Tier Resource Free Limit Storage 512 MB Compute 0.25 vCPU, 1 GB RAM Branches 10 Projects 1 Autoscaling Scale to zero (pay nothing when idle) Regions AWS us-east-1, eu-central-1, ap-southeast-1 The killer feature: database branching . Create a copy of your production database in <1 second for testing, migrations, or feature development. No pg_dump . No waiting. Quick Start (Node.js) npm install @neondatabase/serverless import { neon } from ' @neondatabase/serverless ' ; const sql = neon ( process . env . DATABASE_URL ); // Create a table await sql `CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS users ( id SE