# Why So Many Projects in the Neon Free Plan?

DevFeed: [Why So Many Projects in the Neon Free Plan?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-so-many-projects-in-the-neon-free-plan-5860.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/why-so-many-projects-in-the-neon-free-plan>)

Author: Brad Van Vugt

Published: 2025-11-26T18:08:15Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databricks.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [changelog](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/changelog.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>)

Tags: [apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apps.md>), [company](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/company.md>), [compute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compute.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databricks.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [integration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integration.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [pricing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pricing.md>), [prototypes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prototypes.md>), [resources](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resources.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [side-projects](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/side-projects.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains why Neon has been increasing the number of projects available in its Free Plan. It attributes this expansion to an architecture that separates storage and compute, platform efficiency improvements, and Neon running on Databricks' global infrastructure, which lowers operating costs. Neon says it is using these gains to offer more competitive usage-based pricing and make the Free plan useful for side projects, prototypes, small apps, and experimentation.

## Source excerpt

Over the past few weeks, you might've noticed something in our changelog: we've been steadily increasing the number of projects included in Neon's Free Plan. Why are we doing this? Why now? We've reached two significant milestones that have allowed us to do this: We could have ch...