pgvector Pricing & Free Plan Limits

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Complete pricing breakdown for pgvector including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.

Pricing score: 95/100

Is pgvector free?

Yes — the Self-hosted (open source) plan costs nothing. Paid plans start at $25.00/month (Supabase Pro).

The free plan includes

  • vector, halfvec, bit, sparsevec types
  • HNSW and IVFFlat indexes
  • Postgres 13+

Free plan limits

  • Users: Unlimited
  • Storage: Your own disk (non-partitioned table up to 32 TB in Postgres)
  • No managed backups or support SLA; community support; 2,000-dim index limit on vector

Watch out: You pay for the server and RAM that holds indexes, plus your own ops time. HNSW builds need extra memory.

Plans & Pricing

Self-hosted (open source)
Popular
Free
  • vector, halfvec, bit, sparsevec types
  • HNSW and IVFFlat indexes
  • Postgres 13+

User limit: Unlimited

Storage: Your own disk (non-partitioned table up to 32 TB in Postgres)

Supabase Free
Free
  • pgvector enabled from Extensions page
  • Shared CPU, 500 MB RAM

User limit: 2 active projects

Storage: 500 MB database

Neon Free
Free
  • pgvector on every plan
  • 100 CU-hours per project
  • Autoscaling to 2 CU (8 GB RAM)

User limit: 100 projects

Storage: 1 GB per project, 20 GB total

AWS RDS / Aurora PostgreSQL
Custom pricing
  • CREATE EXTENSION vector, no restart needed
Neon Launch
$0.11 · usage-based
  • $0.106 per CU-hour
  • Autoscaling to 16 CU (64 GB RAM)

Storage: Billed $0.35 per GB-month

Supabase Pro
$25.00/month
  • No pausing
  • $10 compute credit covers one Micro (1 GB RAM)

Storage: 8 GB per project, then $0.125/GB

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