Pricing Feedback for Hobbiest
I’m very appreciative that you are keeping the free tier, as I expect my usage to fit within those limits as I experiment with Neon. But I also wanted to share a persona and use case for me as a hobbiest/casual user.
I’m happy to pay for usage if I exceed the free tier because this does really cost you money to host, but I would only provide my credit card if there was a hard limit on spending. E.g. happy to spend $10/month so long as it can’t exceed that threshold. I know there are defensive things I can do with the regular paid plans to have a soft threshold, but as a casual consumer I don’t want to spend the time and effort to implement those limiters. I’d rather get my functionality blocked or limited at the hard spending limit because that price threshold comes out of my personal budget and the implementation out of my nights and weekends.
6 Replies
rival-black•2y ago
@ductape it is on our backlog to add billing caps. I can't promise when that will be implemented however.
conscious-sapphireOP•2y ago
No worries, just wanted to provide the datapoint as a “willing to spend non-zero but not a huge amount” customer currently on the free tier.
correct-apricot•2y ago
Hi @ductape you should expect spend caps in Q1/Q2 🥳 We know its a pain point and somewhere we can make good improvements on!
flat-fuchsia•5mo ago
@Atli Cervantes @Tristan Partin Hey, any update on spend caps?
For anyone who's looking for the same answer, there is an API that is available to set quotas on a per project basis. More information can be found here: https://neon.tech/docs/guides/partner-consumption-limits
I'm upgrading to "Launch Tier" plan and this is what I've determined for my use case:
active_time_seconds - I want project's computes to be available 24/7. So this would need to be set to 31days * 24hrs * 60mins * 60secs = 2,678,400 seconds
compute_time_seconds - I want to maximize my compute hours for my project - 300 compute hours -> 300 * 60min * 60sec = 1,080,000 seconds
written_data_bytes - from the description, this is used to limit the amount of data that can be written per month and isn't the same as max storage which has a limit of 10gb. No limit set.
data_transfer_bytes - sounds like there is no Launch Tier hard limit for this one according to the documentation. No limit set.
genetic-orange•4mo ago
quotas per Month!
@Mahmoud would be nice to update the docs. Was looking for that
optimistic-gold•4mo ago
We have some docs about setting quotas here:
https://neon.tech/docs/guides/partner-consumption-limits
But those are Neon partner-focused. I think we could add similar docs that are more user-focused. It's now on our task list.
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Configure consumption limits - Neon Docs
When setting up your integration's billing solution with Neon, you may want to impose some hard limits on how much storage or compute resources a given project can consume. For example, you may want t...