# How to Make the Most of Neon's Free Plan

DevFeed: [How to Make the Most of Neon's Free Plan](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-make-the-most-of-neon-s-free-plan-5395.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/how-to-make-the-most-of-neons-free-plan>)

Author: Andre Landgraf

Published: 2025-09-03T17:21:13Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/autoscaling.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

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## AI overview

This Neon blog post explains how to use the Free Plan effectively for Postgres-powered applications. It covers project-level resource limits, monitoring individual projects, managing compute capacity and CU-hours, choosing CPU allocations, configuring development and production branches, and using scale-to-zero behavior to reduce consumption.

## Source excerpt

Note: This blog post was updated on October 31, 2025 to reflect changes in the Free Plan limits. Neon's Free Plan is packed with everything you need to start building with Postgres - we've seen developers ship amazing things with it. If you're new to Neon, let us share some tips...