# Aura DB free tier. What would the username be?

**URL:** <https://community.neo4j.com/t/aura-db-free-tier-what-would-the-username-be/76925>\
**Category:** Aura & Cloud\
**Created:** [March 27, 2026, 2:15am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/aura-db-free-tier-what-would-the-username-be/76925 "2026-03-27T02:15:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![fruitfulapproac](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/fruitfulapproac/32/2627_2.png) [@fruitfulapproac](https://community.neo4j.com/u/fruitfulapproac)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 2:15am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/aura-db-free-tier-what-would-the-username-be/76925/1 "2026-03-27T02:15:30Z")

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- I’m currently using the following URI in order to connect using Django/Neomodel:
- `neo4j+s://<my email>:<my auradb instance password>@95afef44.databases.neo4j.io`
- `I've also tried (and this editor really sucks for escaping this code block obviously):`  
`username = neo4j, Aura`

```auto
# Neo4j / neomodel
NEO4J_BOLT_URL = (
f"{os.environ['AURADB_SCHEMA']}://"
f"{os.environ['AURADB_USER']}:"
f"{os.environ['AURADB_PASSWORD']}@"
f"{os.environ['AURADB_INSTANCE_ID']}."
f"{os.environ['AURADB_BASE_DOMAIN']}"
)

from neomodel import config as neomodel_config
neomodel_config.DATABASE_URL = NEO4J_BOLT_URL

```

- is my settings.py neomodel config
- And here is the runtime error I’m getting when I call `blah = MyStructuredNode(); blah.save():`
- ` **neo4j.exceptions.AuthError: {neo4j\_code: Neo.ClientError.Security.Unauthorized} {message: The client is unauthorized due to authentication failure.} {gql\_status: 42NFF} {gql\_status\_description: error: syntax error or access rule violation - permission/access denied. Access denied, see the security logs for details.}`**

Just want to say it was not a pleasure entering in all this in this botched up editor.

Yes, my instance is running on AuraDB instances dashboard, and I can connect to it from there. There’s no indication anywhere in the documentation, what the user has to be…

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**Author:** ![fruitfulapproac](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/fruitfulapproac/32/2627_2.png) [@fruitfulapproac](https://community.neo4j.com/u/fruitfulapproac)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 2:34am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/aura-db-free-tier-what-would-the-username-be/76925/2 "2026-03-27T02:34:01Z")

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Okay, I see now the Instance ID _is_ the default user name. I’ll try that out now…