Managed Postgres · Comparison
Crunchy Bridge vs Neon
2 products compared side by side: what you pay for with each one first, then the five access facts, entry prices, recorded plan limits and the bottom line of each review. The evidence note under the table says how each product was checked.
Side by side
| Metric | Crunchy Bridge | Neon |
|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Saves engineering timeManaged Postgres on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud at one price per cluster, with 10 days of point-in-time recovery and data transfer included. | Worth the pricePostgres you pay for by the compute hour, with scale to zero, branches that start with your data, and a free plan of 100 projects. |
| Overall score | 5.9 | 6.5Best |
| Free option | Paid only | Free plan |
| Card to start | Card required | No card needed |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $9/mo | $0.106/CU-hour |
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Usage-based |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing units | Cluster size per month (prorated), storage (GB) | Compute-unit hours, storage and restore history (GB-month) |
| Free plan | None; Hobby-0 from $9/mo plus storage | 1 GB per project, 100 projects, 100 CU-hours each; no card |
| 10 GB app with staging, per month | $22.17 on Hobby, computed | $28.06 on Launch, computed |
| Point-in-time recovery | Any minute in the last 10 days, every plan | Up to 7 days on Launch at $0.20/GB-month; 30 on Scale |
| Automatic backups at no extra charge | Daily base backups plus WAL, kept 10 days | None; history and snapshots billed per GB |
| SOC 2 Type II report | On request from Crunchy Data; no plan limit stated | Scale plan |
| HIPAA BAA | On request; no plan limit stated | Scale plan, self-serve |
| EU regions | Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris, Stockholm, Milan (AWS); also Azure and GCP | Frankfurt, London |
| SAML SSO for the dashboard | Not supported; Google, Microsoft or OpenID Connect SSO | Not listed |
| Branch with production data | Yes, a fork from any point in the last 10 days | Yes, every branch starts as a copy |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, Crunchy Bridge includes 10 days of recovery on every plan and keeps the bill to a cluster price plus storage. Its lowest-priced plans are Hobby, which the docs say is not for production, and dashboard SSO is OpenID Connect rather than SAML. | From its public pages, Neon has the most generous free plan and the most flexible branches here, and usage billing suits databases that are often idle. Compliance and longer restore windows move you to Scale, at about twice the compute rate. |
Evidence: Crunchy Bridge: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Neon: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Entry price
Baseline: each product's cheapest paid plan, per month. Included usage differs, so read the line under each price.
- Crunchy BridgeHobby-0$9/mo2 burstable vCPUs, 512 MB, AWS only; plus $0.10/GB storage
- Not intended for production, per the docs
- No PgBouncer, high availability or SLA
- Up to 100 GB of storage
- Backups and data transfer included
- NeonLaunch$0.106/CU-hourNo monthly minimum; storage $0.35/GB-month
- Restore history up to 7 days at $0.20/GB-month
- Scale to zero can be turned off
- 10 branches per project, then $1.50/branch-month
- 500 GB egress per project, then $0.10/GB
- Billing support
Prices as listed on each pricing page, in USD per month, excluding tax. Observed: Crunchy Bridge 2026-10-15, Neon 2026-10-15.
Which one fits
- If you need to start today without a sales call
- NeonSelf-serve sign-up, no card needed; the highest score of the 2 self-serve products here (6.5/10).
- If you want to try it without entering a card
- NeonFree plan, no card needed; scored 6.5/10.
- Lowest starter price
- Crunchy Bridge$9/mo for the Hobby-0 plan. Neon lists no comparable paid price.
- Highest overall score
- Neon6.5/10 (Good). The review shows the score breakdown and the run behind it.
Picked by fixed rules from the table above, not by hand. How we score
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