Extra usage

Neon plans are structured around Allowances and Extra usage. Allowances are included in your plan. With Neon's paid plans, you can purchase extra usage in set increments for when you need to go over your allowance.

Plan fees and allowances

This table provides an overview of plan fees with allowances for storage, compute, and projects:

The Enterprise plan is fully customizable with respect to allowances. Please contact Sales for more information.

Extra usage

The Launch, Scale, and Business plans permit extra usage beyond the allowances included with the monthly fee. The extra usage types that are available differ by plan.

Launch plan

The Launch plan supports extra Storage and Compute usage. If you need more than 100 projects, you'll need to move up to the Scale or Business plan.

• Extra Storage: If you exceed 10 GiB, extra storage is allocated in units of 2 GiB at $3.50 per unit.
• Extra Compute: If you exceed 300 compute hours, extra compute is billed at $0.16/compute hour.

Scale plan

The Scale plans supports extra Storage, Compute, and Project usage.

• Extra Storage: If you exceed 50 GiB on Scale, extra storage is allocated in units of 10 GiB at $15 per unit.
• Extra Compute: If you exceed 750 compute hours on Scale, extra compute is billed at $0.16/compute hour.
• Extra Projects: If you exceed 1000 projects on Scale, extra projects are allocated in units of 500 projects at $50 per unit.

Business plan

Both the Scale and Business plans supports extra Storage, Compute, and Project usage.

• Extra Storage: If you exceed 500 GiB on Business, extra storage is allocated in units of 10 GiB at $5 per unit.
• Extra Compute: If you exceed 1000 compute hours on Business, extra compute is billed at $0.16/compute hour.
• Extra Projects: If you exceed 5000 projects on Business, extra projects are allocated in units of 5000 projects at $50 per unit.

How does extra usage work?

Taking advantage of extra usage requires no user action. Extra usage, if supported with your plan, is allocated by default. If you use more storage, compute, or projects than your monthly allowance provides, the extra usage is automatically allocated and charged to your monthly bill.

Storage

For example, the Launch plan includes an allowance of 10 GiB in the plan's monthly fee. If you exceed 10 GiB of storage at any point during the month, you are automatically allocated an extra storage unit of 2 GiB at $3.50 per unit. If you exceed 12 GiB, you are allocated 2 units of 2 GiB (an extra $7), and so on. It works the same way on the Scale and Business plans, but with 10 GiB units of storage at $15 per unit for Scale and $5.00 per unit for Business. However, the extra charge is prorated from the date the extra usage was allocated, meaning that you are not billed the full amount if extra storage units were allocated partway through the month.

Projects

Billing for extra projects, which are available with the Scale and Business plans, works in the same way as storage. Extra projects are allocated in units of 500 on Scale and 5000 on Business. For example, the Scale plan has an allowance of 1000 projects. If you use more than 1000 projects, you are automatically allocated an extra unit of 500 projects at $50 per unit. For example, if you use 1001 projects, you are allocated 1 unit of 500 projects (an extra $50). If you use 1501 projects, you are allocated 2 units of 500 projects (an extra $100), and so on. The extra charge is prorated from the date the extra usage was allocated, meaning that you are not billed the full amount if extra project units are allocated partway through the month.

Cost = Units x (Unit Price/Days in Month) x Days Left in Month

Compute

Extra compute usage is available with the Launch, Scale, and Business plans and is billed by compute hour at $0.16 per hour. For example, the Launch plan has an allowance of 300 compute hours included in the plan's monthly fee. If you use 100 additional compute hours over the billing period, you are billed an extra $16 (100 x $0.16). Since extra compute usage is per hour, prorated billing does not apply.

Extra usage examples

The following examples illustrate how extra storage is allocated and billed in Neon. The same method applies to extra project usage. The examples are based on the Scale plan, which comes with a 50 GiB storage allowance. The Launch plan has a different storage allowance (10 GiB) and cost per extra storage unit ($3.50 per 2 GiB), but the examples still apply.

Example 1: Steady extra storage usage

This example illustrates how a steady amount of extra storage is billed.

Plan: Scale Period: June 1st – June 30th
Usage: Steady at 55 GiB throughout the month

Example 2: Storage exceeds the limit at the start of the month

This example illustrates how extra storage is billed from the date the extra storage is allocated until the end of the month, not just for the days the storage limit was exceeded.

Plan: Scale Period: June 1st – June 15th
Usage: 55 GiB
Change: On June 16th, usage decreased to 45 GiB until the end of the month

Example 3: Storage spikes briefly at the end of the month

This example illustrates a prorated charge for extra storage that was allocated toward the end of the billing period. The charge is prorated from the date the extra storage usage was allocated.

Plan: Scale Period:

• June 1st – June 27th: Usage up to 49 GiB
• June 28th: Usage increased to 55 GiB
• June 29th: Usage decreased back to 45 GiB and remained so until the end of the month

Feedback

We’re always looking for ways to improve our pricing model to make it as developer-friendly as possible. If you have feedback for us, let us know via the Feedback form in the Neon Console or our feedback channel on Discord. We read and consider every submission.