Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector) vs Elasticsearch (Elastic Cloud) pricing
Across 3 benchmark workloads, Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector) prices lower in 3 of 3 — by up to ~71% at parity scenarios. It uses fixed-capacity plans, so steady workloads amortize the floor. Both are compared on identical USD-normalized footprints; verify current rates via each row's provenance date in the full tool.
Monthly Cost Across Realistic Benchmarks
RAG Prototype · 100k×1536 fp32
Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector): $19.00/mo Elasticsearch (Elastic Cloud): $65.75/mo
Cheaper: Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector)Mid Scale · 1M×768 INT8
Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector): $19.00/mo Elasticsearch (Elastic Cloud): $65.78/mo
Cheaper: Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector)Large · 5M×768 INT8 10M queries
Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector): $19.00/mo Elasticsearch (Elastic Cloud): $66.09/mo
Cheaper: Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector)