Neon

Serverless Postgres with instant branching — separate storage and compute, scale to zero, fork prod data in seconds.

Starter

Pricing Tier

Easy

Learning Curve

Same day for first project

Implementation

small, medium, large

Best For

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✓ Use when

Modern web apps needing per-PR preview databases, AI apps using pgvector, or any Postgres workload that benefits from scale-to-zero.

✗ Avoid when

Heavy always-on OLTP at scale — traditional managed Postgres (RDS, Aurora) has more predictable performance characteristics.

What is Neon?

Neon is a serverless Postgres platform built on a storage-compute separation architecture. Every branch is a copy-on-write fork of the main database, enabling preview databases per pull request. Scale-to-zero makes it cheap for dev environments. Acquired by Databricks in 2025, Neon remains the fastest-growing Postgres alternative for Jamstack and AI-native apps.

Key features

✓Branching with copy-on-write storage

✓Scale-to-zero compute

✓Point-in-time restore

✓Read replicas and connection pooling

✓pgvector for AI embeddings

Integrations

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