Alternatives to Neon
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Neon is a serverless PostgreSQL database platform founded in 2021 by Nikita Shamgunov (MemSQL founder), Heikki Linnakangas (PostgreSQL core contributor), and Stas Kelvich, offering the database branching and serverless scale-to-zero capabilities of PlanetScale but for PostgreSQL. Neon's architecture separates compute from storage — Neon's storage layer (NeonVM) provides shared, multi-tenant Postgres storage backed by S3, while compute pods (Postgres instances) scale to zero when idle and cold-start in ~500ms.
PlanetScale
MySQL branching platform — PlanetScale for MySQL; Neon for PostgreSQL-first teams
Supabase
Full backend platform with Postgres — Supabase adds auth/storage/realtime; Neon is pure database
Turso
Edge SQLite — Turso for ultra-low edge latency; Neon for full Postgres feature set
PostgreSQL
Self-managed Postgres — Neon is managed Postgres with branching; Postgres for full infrastructure control
CockroachDB
Distributed multi-region SQL — CockroachDB for global active-active; Neon for serverless single-region
Vercel Postgres
Vercel's managed Postgres (powered by Neon internally) — same technology, Vercel-native billing
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