Neon

Neon is serverless Postgres for app developers and AI agent builders, with database branching and compute that scales to zero.

Neon is serverless Postgres for application developers and the teams that build AI agents, offered as a managed database that grows with traffic and scales compute down to zero when nothing is connected. It separates storage from compute, which is what allows a database to change size on demand. Neon is part of Databricks, and its plans are labelled Lakebase Postgres on the pricing page. The service runs from neon.com, and its source repository is licensed under Apache-2.0. Each Neon project holds Postgres databases and their branches. A branch is a copy of a database that shares storage with its parent, and a temporary branch can be given an expiration time so it deletes itself. Time Travel connects to a point inside the project's history window and queries the data as it looked then, and the console pairs a Table editor with a SQL editor for that work. Postgres extensions load from a supported list, including pg_partman for range and list partitioning and lakebase_text for BM25 full-text search. Row-level security policies and JSONB columns with GIN indexes are documented. Around the database, Neon adds Managed Better Auth, Object Storage, Functions and an AI Gateway. Neon suits developers and small teams that want to start on a free project and grow into production on the same service. It also fits builders of AI agents and app generation platforms that create many small or intermittent databases for development, demos, previews and experiments. Organizations that need SLAs, HIPAA and a private network use the Scale plan. Neon is bought by usage: compute is metered in CU-hours and storage in GB-months on the Launch and Scale plans, and a Free plan sits beside them. Neon sits behind web and mobile apps as their Postgres database. It connects to developer tools such as Drizzle, Flyway and GitHub Actions, and it pairs with Better Auth for sign-in. Built-in dashboards in the console show usage and performance, and connection pooling and autoscaling come with the database. Neon runs programs for early-stage startups, open source projects and app generation platforms.