Neon
Open coreDatabaseThe backend for apps and agents, built to scale on Lakebase Postgres.
Scanned 15 Oct 2026 · Schema v5 · features v21
- From
- Free
usage-metered
- Free tier
- Yes
No card required.
- Isolation
- Virtual machine
hypervisor, or nothing at all
- Regions
- 8
US East (N. Virginia) · US East (Ohio) · US West (Oregon) · EU (Frankfurt) · EU (London) · Asia Pacific (Singapore) +2
- Capabilities
- 25 / 61
6 partial · 10 fail · 0 not assessed
- Agent readiness
- 10/11 · 11/11
read · drive, pre-login surface
Advertised for
Primary: OLTP Postgres, vector search, app/agent databases and branch per agent workflows. Backend services additionally include JS/TS Functions, S3 style Object Storage and prepaid AI Gateway.
Built for
Developers, then technical
- · Hero tagline: 'The backend for apps and agents' — developer-facing product framing
- · CLI-first setup: `npx neonctl@latest init`, `npm i -g neonctl`
- · Deep technical docs: OpenAPI spec, SDK reference, architecture overview
01 Pricing usage-metered
| Tier | EntryFree | Launch | TopScale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0/month | usage-based, no monthly minimum | usage-based, no monthly minimum |
| Transfer | 5 GB | 500 GB | 500 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB | — | — |
| Compute hours | 100 h | — | — |
| Transfer overage | — | $0.1/GB | $0.1/GB |
| Storage overage | — | $0.35/GB | $0.35/GB |
| Compute hours overage | — | $0.106/h | $0.222/h |
CU-hour (Compute Unit-hour = ~4 GB RAM + CPU × hours running); GB-month (storage + instant restore); egress GB·Card required: No·neon.com
Overages: Launch $0.106/CU-hour; Scale $0.222/CU-hour; Postgres $0.35/GB-month; restore $0.20/GB-month; snapshots $0.09/GB-month; Object Storage $0.023/GB-month; egress after 500 GB/project $0.10/GB; extra branches $1.50/branch-month.
02 Website design Desktop public website · assessed 15 Oct 2026
Complete assessment.
Desktop landing and pricing use black surfaces, white sans-serif hierarchy and mint accents; the documentation switches to a white reading surface with structured navigation and pale-green instructional cards.
- Corporate
- Swiss-inspired
- Landing page: captured
- Pricing: captured
- Docs: captured
03 Runtime Each fact carries its source; dots show confidence. Open a row for the evidence.
Isolation & lifecycle
Resources & limits
Access
Network & secrets
Placement & use
04 Capabilities 25 pass · 6 partial · 10 fail · 61 of 61 assessed
- Supported — Documented on the public surface and verified.
- Partially supported — Exists with caveats: gated, thin, or enterprise-only.
- Not supported — Checked and not offered.
- Not assessed — Scanned before this capability was tracked. Not a lack.
Compute & storage 4/4
Networking & delivery 3/6
Developer access 5/5
AI & agents 4/8
Data 4/4
Platform & operations 2/5
Organisation & security 3/9
05 Agent readiness Pre-login surface · counts, not a grade
Can an agent read it?
parse-ability · docs, metadata, machine-readable surfaces
10/11
9 full · 1 partial · 91% of applicable checks
- llms.txtSupported
- llms-full.txtSupported
- robots.txt AI policySupported
- JSON-LDNot supported
- SitemapSupported
- Meta tagsSupported
- Markdown negotiationSupported
- Content efficiencyPartially supported
- Docs discoverableSupported
- Machine-readable pricingSupported
- No anti-bot wallSupported
Can an agent drive it?
act-ability · APIs, SDKs, MCP, credentials, webhooks
11/11
11 full · 0 partial · 100% of applicable checks
- Public APISupported
- OpenAPI specSupported
- MCP serverSupported
- SDK packagesSupported
- Auth documentedSupported
- Self-serve credentialsSupported
- WebhooksSupported
- CLI toolSupported
- Error modelSupported
- Rate limits documentedSupported
- Agent config filesSupported
06 Coding harnesses Which agents and IDEs are documented to run here
Advertised integrations 13
- Claude Code AnthropicSupported
- Cursor AnysphereSupported
- Codex CLI OpenAISupported
- Gemini CLI GoogleSupported
- GitHub Copilot GitHubSupported
- Cline ClineSupported
- Windsurf CodeiumSupported
- Zed Agent ZedSupported
- OpenCode opencodeSupported
Antigravity Google
Supported
Goose BlockSupportedKilo Code Kilo
SupportedKiro CLI Amazon Web Services
Supported
Plausible compatibility 0
Derived, not stored: the product passes SSH access, so any CLI coding agent is installable inside it. This is plausible compatibility, not a supported integration.
No general shell access documented, so nothing is derived. Absence is not unsupported.
07 Compliance & regions Standards held, with ordinal rigor; never a score
Certifications held 8
- ISO/IEC 27001certifiedhosted
- ISO/IEC 27701certifiedhosted
- SOC 2 Type IIcertifiedhosted
- HIPAAself-attestedhostedHIPAA is a regulatory framework, not a certification. Scale plan and BAA required; only hosted deployment covered.
- SOC 2 Type Icertifiedhosted
- SOC 3certifiedhosted
- CCPAself-attestedhosted
- GDPRself-attestedhosted
Regions 8
- US East (N. Virginia)aws-us-east-1
- US East (Ohio)aws-us-east-2
- US West (Oregon)aws-us-west-2
- EU (Frankfurt)aws-eu-central-1
- EU (London)aws-eu-west-2
- Asia Pacific (Singapore)aws-ap-southeast-1
- Asia Pacific (Sydney)aws-ap-southeast-2
- South America (São Paulo)aws-sa-east-1
Eight AWS project regions; each project is single-region and cannot be moved in place. Postgres/Auth in all eight; Functions/Object Storage/AI Gateway currently only us-east-1, us-east-2, eu-central-1, ap-southeast-1. Azure deprecated; inactive Free projects subject to deletion from 2026-10-05.
08 Open source Apache-2.0 · fetched by machine, not quoted from marketing
Licence & repository
- Licence
- Apache-2.0OSI
- Primary language
- Rust
- Stars
- 23,206
- Forks
- 1,114
- Created
- 26 Mar 2021
- Archived
- No
Activity
- Last commit
- 31 Aug 2026
- Latest release
- release-proxy-8853 · 29 Jul 2025
- Issues open / closed
- 312 / 2831 · 90% closed
Latest eight GitHub release objects are component release tags from July 2025. Do not confuse this historical release-object list with ongoing repository pushes or the hosted service changelog.
Fetched via gh on 15 Oct 2026.
Self-hosting
- Methods
- composesource-build
- You operate
- postgresobject-storage
Self-hosting the full Neon stack (pageserver + safekeeper + storage_broker + proxy + compute) is technically possible via docker-compose (docker-compose/docker-compose.yml in the repo, uses MinIO for object storage). The autoscaling / NeonVM component (neondatabase/autoscaling repo) requires Kubernetes + QEMU and is explicitly marked 'not officially supported externally'. The README says 'Neon can be run on a workstation for small experiments and to test code changes' — self-host is a dev/test path, not a production-grade self-host. No official self-host docs on neon.com. Self-host cost = free under Apache-2.0 + operator's own infra.
Documentation signals 7/8
- SupportedQuickstart
- SupportedAPI reference
- Not supportedSelf-host guide
- SupportedChangelog
- SupportedOpenAPI
- Supportedllms.txt
- SupportedExamples
- SupportedArchitecture doc
09 Company & presence Facts only, not scored
Company
- Headquarters
- Not disclosed
- Founded
- 2021
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Hiring
- Hiring through Databricks
Activity
Presence 6
Links found on the public surface scanned; not an exhaustive search.
10 Sources & method How this entry was produced
Public surface only
Everything here was read from neon.com's unauthenticated pages, docs, pricing and repository on 15 Oct 2026. Nothing behind a login was used.
Statuses, not scores
Capabilities are pass, partial or fail against a written rubric (features v21). “Not assessed” means the scan predates the key.
Confidence is separate
Each fact carries its own confidence. Low-confidence facts are shown, never hidden, so you can weigh them.
- Schema
- scan v5
- Features registry
- v21
- Keys tracked today
- 61
- Assessed on this entry
- 61