# Your Neon Branches Can Now Expire Automatically

DevFeed: [Your Neon Branches Can Now Expire Automatically](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/your-neon-branches-can-now-expire-automatically-5263.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/expire-neon-branches-automatically>)

Author: Gustavo Salomão

Published: 2025-08-13T18:45:44Z

Content type: release

Language: en

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

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ci.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/features.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

Neon introduces expiration times for database branches, automatically deleting short-lived branches created for development, previews, tests, and other workflows.

## Source excerpt

Branching is one of the most powerful features in Neon. It lets teams spin up isolated environments instantly and automate workflows through the API, and as a result, developers and agents create many branches at scale - hundreds or even thousands of them. To make managing short-...