The short answer
- Moving from Supabase Pro to Neon (free tier) saves $250 in the first year, after setup and upkeep time (Stackcut's model: modeled, not measured).
- Neon's official migration guide moves 1 kind of data in full; 3 things stay behind. What moves
- 1 public account of making this switch: 1 switched. Read them
- 4 comparison pages checked, each labeled with who wrote it. What they claim
What Supabase and Neon cost
List prices from each vendor's pricing page, as stored in the Stackcut catalog. Each price links its source.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly (per month) | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supabase Pro | $25/mo | not shown | From $25/mo: 8 GB disk per project, 100 GB file storage, 100,000 MAU, 250 GB egress, $10/mo compute credits; first project included, more from $10/mo |
| Supabase Team | $599/mo | not shown | From $599/mo: same usage quotas as Pro (8 GB disk, 100 GB storage, 100,000 MAU, 250 GB egress); SSO, longer retention |
- Supabase free plan: 500 MB database, 1 GB file storage, 50,000 MAU, 5 GB egress, 5 GB cached egress, shared CPU with 500 MB RAM, 500,000 Edge Function invocations; 2 active projects (across every organization you own or administer); paused after 1 week of low activity (restorable for 1 year); no automatic backups; 1-day log retention; community support; no overages supabase.com
- Neon free plan: 1 GB storage per project, 100 CU-hours per project, up to 100 projects, 10 branches per project, up to 2 CU, 5 GB egress per project; scales to zero after 5 min neon.com
Neon's plans aren't in the Stackcut catalog yet; check Neon's own site.
What comparison pages say
Each claim as the page makes it, and who it favors. Vendor pages are labeled; weigh them accordingly.
4 pages compared, 1 of them written by one of the two vendors. Claims are the pages' own, paraphrased; prices in them may be older than the catalog prices above.
| About | The page says | Favors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Neon charges nothing while a database sits idle (scale-to-zero), which the piece frames as a win for dev/test and bursty workloads. | Neon | Bytebase independent |
| Features | Neon's strength is instant, copy-on-write database branching; Supabase's is a full platform bundling auth, storage and edge functions around Postgres. | Even | Bytebase independent |
| Performance | Supabase's always-on compute has a slight latency edge for production traffic; Neon's shared-storage architecture can add minor cold-start latency. | Supabase | Bytebase independent |
| Price | Modeled launch-stage cost: Neon about $5/month versus Supabase about $26/month for the same hypothetical app. | Neon | DEV Community independent |
| Price | Modeled scale-stage cost: Neon about $278/month versus Supabase about $1,213/month, driven mostly by Supabase's per-MAU overage. | Neon | DEV Community independent |
| Price | Modeled product-market-fit stage briefly favors Supabase: about $33/month versus Neon's about $49/month. | Supabase | DEV Community independent |
| Performance | One developer's real-world comparison found Supabase's read queries executed much faster than Neon's on their setup. | Supabase | GitHub (Neon Database discussions) independent |
| Features | Managed Better Auth doesn't support phone/SMS or WhatsApp authentication, SAML SSO, or Web3 wallet sign-in, which Supabase Auth offers. | Supabase | Neon vendor page |
| Migration effort | Existing password-based Supabase Auth users can't migrate automatically; they must create new accounts or re-authenticate via OAuth after cutover. | Supabase | Neon vendor page |
Moving from Supabase to Neon
What Neon's importer carries over, what it leaves behind, and any help it offers switchers.
To Neon
Official guide neon.com · Tools: pg_dump, pg_restore
Moves: Public schema and table data (full). neon.com
Doesn't move: Supabase-managed schemas for Auth, Storage and other platform services (separate schemas; not covered by this guide); Object ownership — Neon's neon_superuser role can't run ALTER OWNER; Realtime, Edge Functions, auto-generated REST/GraphQL APIs and vector storage buckets — Neon replaces only the Postgres database. neon.com
Watch out for:
- Avoid pg_dump over a pooled connection string — Neon's docs say to skip it neon.com
- Expect harmless 'must be owner' errors on restore; Neon's superuser can't ALTER OWNER neon.com
- pg_dumpall, the -C/--create flag, tablespaces and large objects aren't supported neon.com
Official guide neon.com · Tools: Neon Auth (Managed Better Auth) SDK, Neon Data API
Moves: Auth client configuration and newly created user accounts going forward (partial). neon.com
Doesn't move: Existing password-based user accounts and their hashes — different hashing algorithm, no automatic transfer; Phone/SMS or WhatsApp authentication; SAML SSO; Web3 wallet sign-in; Automatic email verification flow — you must build your own verification UI. neon.com
Watch out for:
- "Existing password-based users cannot migrate due to different hashing algorithms" neon.com
From each destination's own migration docs and switching pages, plus community write-ups where no official guide exists, each checked against its page. Confirm terms on the linked page before you rely on an offer.
People who moved from Supabase to Neon
1 public accounts of leaving Supabase: 1 switched. Summaries are ours; each links the original, and each was checked against its page before it appeared here.
A brief, undetailed comment in Hacker News's monthly "what are you working on" thread: the author states they finished moving a CRUD app's backend from Supabase to Neon. No reasons, metrics or problems are given. Hacker News
How to leave Supabase
Export first, then cancel. Every step links the vendor's own help page, checked on the date shown.
How to leave Supabase
Export first
- Database: roles, schema and data: supabase db dump --db-url … with -f roles.sql --role-only, then -f schema.sql, then -f data.sql --use-copy --data-only (SQL). Storage objects aren't in the dump; move them separately. supabase.com
What you lose
- Daily backups, on Free
- Staying awake: Free projects pause after a week of inactivity
Cancel
- Back up first with the Supabase CLI (see export); Free projects get no automatic backups.
- Change the subscription plan in your organization's billing settings.
- Refunds
- The organization gets credits for unused time on the plan; they don't expire and can be used later.
- After you cancel
- You may see a charge for unbilled usage from the previous billing cycle. You get 2 active free projects; paused projects don't count.
FAQ
Is Neon cheaper than Supabase?
Modeled, not measured: moving from Supabase Pro to Neon (free tier) saves $250 in the first year, after setup and upkeep time at $50/hour. It depends on your plan, seats and usage. the math
Can I move my Supabase data to Neon?
Neon's official guide moves: Public schema and table data. It doesn't move: Supabase-managed schemas for Auth, Storage and other platform services (separate schemas; not covered by this guide); Object ownership — Neon's neon_superuser role can't run ALTER OWNER; Realtime, Edge Functions, auto-generated REST/GraphQL APIs and vector storage buckets — Neon replaces only the Postgres database. neon.com
What do I lose when I leave Supabase?
Per Supabase's own pages, leaving or downgrading loses: Daily backups, on Free; Staying awake: Free projects pause after a week of inactivity. supabase.com
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