Neon
Neon scores 78/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a public API exists with documentation; usage-based / per-token pricing is published; a free entry path exists.
Neon pricing
Free
Free
Launch
$0.106
meteredScale
$0.222
meteredHow Neon scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing visibility
15 / 15
Self-serve checkout
15 / 15
Public API + docs
16 / 20
Usage-based / metered pricing
13 / 20
Free entry path
7 / 7
No sales call required
7 / 7
Card / wallet / x402 payment
5 / 6
Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)
0 / 10
Total
78 / 100
What it actually costs at typical scale
Free plan – 1 project, 50 CU‑hours, 0.5 GB storage
$0/mo
Launch plan – 1 project, 100 CU‑hours, 10 GB storage
$14.1/mo
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Can create account
Can enter payment method
Can upgrade plan
Can buy more usage
Can cancel online
Payment methods
Human approval recommended
Pricing transparency
full
Purchase motion
self_serve
Demo required
Quote required
Annual commit required
Auto-renewal mentioned
Cancellation policy visible
Refund policy visible
Invoice payment available
Purchase orders supported
MSA required
DPA available
Security review required
Trial
Available, no card
Startup credits
up to $100k credits
API & developer surface
API-first product
Sandbox present
Unknown
Webhooks
Unknown
MCP mentioned
Trust & compliance
Certifications
SSO / SAML
Unknown
RBAC
Unknown
Audit logs
Unknown
Data residency
Positioning & ecosystem
“Neon pricing”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Neon?
Discover price
Select a plan
Pay per task
Avoid a sales call
API docs without auth
Estimate cost upfront
Pros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-06. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
- No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
- All advertised tiers route to a sales contact form; an agent cannot complete a purchase autonomously.
- API documentation is gated or absent; an agent cannot inspect the integration surface without authentication.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How Neon could lift its score
Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Neon pricing — Serverless Postgres, by Databricks |
| tier_count | 4 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 15 |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | $0.35 per GB |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 0 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://neon.com/docs/introduction |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
| per_unit_classification | {"unit_class":"data_volume","confidence":"low","agent_task_price_forecastable":"partial","rejected_reason":null,"evidence_text":"$0.35 per GB"} |
| usage_headline_present | false |
| custom_tier_present | false |
| agent_friendly | {"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":true,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":true,"x402_supported":false} |
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78
/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Database Management
Neon pricing — Serverless Postgres, by Databricks
4
Yes
$15/mo
$0.35 per GB
0 / 1
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
Neon pricing starts at $0/mo for the Free plan; paid plans up to $701/mo. Billed monthly.
Free plan (Free)
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.ai-pricing.json
agents.txt
llms.txt
sitemap.xml
MCP Server Card
Agent Skills
x402 / MPP
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