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Cloudways vs Neon

Managed cloud hosting across DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud
vs. Serverless Postgres with branching and bottomless storage

Cloudways website ↗Neon website ↗

Pricing tiers

Cloudways

Autonomous — Free Trial
3-day free trial. 1 server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
Free
Flexible — DO Micro
DigitalOcean-backed. 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage, 2 TB bandwidth. Starting tier.
$11/mo
Flexible — DO Medium
4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB, 5 TB bandwidth.
$88/mo
Autonomous — Growth
WordPress-optimized autoscaling. 1 baseline server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
$100/mo
Autonomous — Scale
2 baseline servers, 50 GB disk, 250 GB bandwidth.
$200/mo
Flexible — DO 8XL
24 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2.56 TB storage, 11 TB bandwidth.
$342/mo
Autonomous — Plus
3 baseline servers, 100 GB disk, 1 TB bandwidth.
$400/mo
Enterprise
Custom autoscale, volume pricing.
Custom
Cloudways website ↗

Neon

Free
100 projects, 0.5 GB storage + 100 CU-hours each. Great for prototypes and preview envs.
Free
Launch
Usage-based, no minimum. Small production workloads. $0.35/GB-month storage, $0.106/CU-hour.
$0 base (usage-based)
Scale
Usage-based, higher compute tier + faster instances ($0.222/CU-hour). Up to 30-day PITR, 1,000 projects.
$0 base (usage-based)
Business
Usage-based with 99.95% SLA, HIPAA available. Private networking $0.01/GB.
$0 base (usage-based)
Neon website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing auto-free-trial on Cloudways vs free on Neon.

MetricCloudwaysNeon
branches per project—10 branches
cu hours per project—100 CU-hours/month
egress gb month—5 GB/month
pitr retention hours—6 hours
projects—100 projects
storage gb per project—0.5 GB
team members—3 users

Features

Cloudways · 17 features

  • Autonomous (WordPress) — Fully managed WordPress with autoscaling.
  • Backups — Automated daily + on-demand. Retention configurable.
  • Bot Protection — Cloudflare Enterprise bot filtering add-on.
  • Bot Scaler — Autonomous: auto-scale based on traffic patterns.
  • Breeze (WP cache plugin) — In-house WordPress caching plugin.
  • CloudwaysCDN — Built-in CDN add-on (StackPath-backed).
  • Flexible Plans — BYO-sized servers on any of 5 providers. Full control over stack.
  • Free Let's Encrypt SSL — 1-click cert install + auto-renewal.
  • Free Migration — 1 free app migration per plan. Cloudways team moves your site.
  • Horizontal Scaling — Auto-scale app servers (Autonomous plans).
  • Malware Protection — Add-on ($4/app/month). Scan + clean.
  • Object Cache Pro — Included on certain plans. Redis-backed object cache for WP.
  • SafeUpdates — Automated WordPress plugin/theme updates with rollback.
  • Staging Environments — 1-click staging clones with push-to-live.
  • Team Collaboration — Invite team members with granular role permissions.
  • Thunderstack (Optimized) — Apache + Nginx + Varnish + Redis + Memcached preconfigured for speed.
  • Vertical Scaling — Resize server specs without migration.

Neon · 14 features

  • Autoscaling — Compute scales CPU + memory between min and max CU in seconds based on load.
  • Branching — Git-like DB branches: copy-on-write snapshots of data + schema. Instant, cheap. …
  • Data API (REST) — PostgREST-compatible REST endpoint auto-generated from your schema. Uses Postgre…
  • IP Allowlist — Restrict DB access to specific CIDRs. Launch+.
  • Launchpad — One-click create-a-database link that can be embedded in OSS repos (DATABASE_URL…
  • Logical Replication — Publish changes to Snowflake, BigQuery, Kafka, or other Postgres. Subscribe from…
  • Monitoring — Built-in dashboards for CPU/RAM/connections/slow queries. Prometheus export on B…
  • Neon Auth — Stack Auth integrated: users table auto-synced into your Postgres (public.users_…
  • Point-in-Time Restore — Restore DB to any moment in the retention window (6h free → 30d Scale) via branc…
  • Private Networking — AWS PrivateLink / VPC peering. Business plan.
  • Read Replicas — Create a read-only compute endpoint on the same branch. Zero replication lag (re…
  • Scale to Zero — Compute suspends when idle — no charge for compute while paused. Cold-start ~300…
  • Schema Diff — Compare schema between branches — build PR checks and preview migrations safely.
  • SQL over HTTP — Serverless driver lets you query Postgres over HTTPS — works in edge runtimes (V…

Developer interfaces

KindCloudwaysNeon
CLI—Neon CLI
SDK—@neondatabase/serverless
RESTCloudways APIManagement / Control Plane API, Neon Data API (REST), SQL over HTTP
MCP—Neon MCP Server
OTHERCloudways Platform (web UI), Server SSH Access, SFTPPostgres Wire Protocol
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