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The 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 EntryFreeLaunchTopScale
Price $0/monthusage-based, no monthly minimumusage-based, no monthly minimum
Transfer5 GB500 GB500 GB
Storage1 GB——
Compute hours100 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

Isolation primitive
Virtual machinehypervisor, or nothing at all
Persistence
durable-storage — WAL streamed to safekeepers (Paxos quorum), pages materialized to object storage; compute nodes are ephemeral/stateless
Snapshots / forks
na

Resources & limits

Storage
Postgres: Free 1 GB/project and 20 GB/account; paid $0.35/GB-month. Object Storage: Free 5 GB/project; paid $0.023/GB-month.
Limits & quotas
Free: 100 CU-hours/project, 1 GB Postgres/project and 20 GB/account, 5 GB egress/project, 10 branches/project, 100 projects. Launch $0.106/CU-hour; Scale $0.222/CU-hour; paid 500 GB egress/project. Functions/Object Storage/AI Gateway limited to four regions.
GPU
No

Access

Deploy interface
apicliconsole
SDK languages
TypeScriptPython

Network & secrets

Egress controls
IP Allow rules (Scale plan); PrivateLink / Private Networking (Scale plan); NAT gateway IPs documented for allowlist configuration
Secrets
DB roles and API keys; Functions receive DATABASE_URL automatically and support user-defined secrets/environment variables.
Bring your own cloud
No

Placement & use

Jurisdiction
AWS regions (US, EU, APAC, SA); Azure deprecated
Advertised workloads
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.

04 Capabilities 25 pass · 6 partial · 10 fail · 61 of 61 assessed

  • Supported
  • Partially supported
  • Not supported
  • Not assessed

Compute & storage 4/4

Persistent diskStorage that survives restart/stop (not ephemeral-only).
Supported
Object storageManaged S3-compatible / blob object store the platform PROVIDES to a user's workloads (buckets, presigned URLs). DISTINCT from persistent-disk (block/volume attached to an instance) and from a self-host dependency (source.self_host.deps[]=["object-storage"] is an infra dep to RUN an OSS tool — the opposite direction). SCOPE varies and matters: native first-class (Railway Buckets, Cloudflare R2) vs a sibling SKU / extension (Fly Tigris, Bunny Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces) — record which in the evidence quote / note. Admitted v15.
Supported
Snapshots / forkingSnapshot or copy-on-write fork of a running instance (filesystem-only counts). Whether the snapshot also restores memory + running processes is recorded separately by memory-snapshot (v19).
Not applicable
Live-state (memory) snapshotsA snapshot / checkpoint / pause captures a running instance's MEMORY and PROCESS state and restores it, so running processes continue where they left off instead of a freshly booted instance with the same files. Counts whether user-triggered (snapshot, checkpoint, pause-to-storage) or used to restore pre-initialised state (memory snapshots for fast cold starts). Distinct from snapshots-forks (any snapshot or fork, including filesystem-only; a product passing that key may still fail this one) and from scale-to-zero (an idle-cost property; suspension may or may not keep memory). Actor multiplexing (see scale-to-zero) records its live-state half here — only when the suspended actor's MEMORY/process state is what comes back, not a freshly booted worker with the actor's files.
Not applicable
Scale to zeroIdle instances suspend at no / negligible cost. ACTOR MULTIPLEXING (many suspended stateful actors sharing a small pool of pre-warmed workers, woken on request — Agent Substrate, AX, kagent; Rivet's hibernating actors) has NO key of its own (proposal REJECTED v20) — score the idle-cost half HERE and the live-state half under memory-snapshot; the oversubscription ratio / density is a performance characteristic the registry does not key.
Supported
GPU computeGPU-backed instances available.
Not applicable
Multi-regionCompute placeable in more than one geographic region.
Supported
Sandbox templates / custom imagesBuild reusable sandbox/VM images from an OCI image or Dockerfile (a base you fork instances from).
Not applicable
Cloud-init / ignition configCustomise a VM / microVM / instance at boot via cloud-init (or ignition) user-data — the same boot-metadata interface as AWS/Azure/GCP. Inject packages, users, SSH keys, files, and run-commands declaratively at launch. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a PREBUILT image you fork instances from) — this is PER-LAUNCH declarative customisation, not a baked image.
Not applicable
Desktop / computer-use sandboxA virtual desktop (GUI) for LLM computer-use — browser + desktop automation, often via noVNC/VNC.
Not applicable
Selectable isolation runtimeThe user chooses the isolation runtime per workload / environment / sandbox from more than one option (e.g. microVM vs gVisor vs plain container, native namespaces vs gVisor, gVisor vs VM). Records the CHOICE; the isolation_primitive facet still records the best-evidenced primary. A platform that switches runtime automatically without a user choice (e.g. gVisor forced for GPU) does not pass on that alone.
Not applicable

Networking & delivery 3/6

Automatic HTTPSTLS endpoints provisioned automatically per workload.
Supported
Built-in reverse proxyPlatform routes external traffic to workload services.
Not applicable
Custom domainsBring-your-own domain via CNAME/DNS.
Supported
Public preview URLsShareable per-deploy / per-branch URLs.
Supported
Direct public IPv6Per-instance stable public IPv6 for raw TCP/UDP (beyond a managed HTTPS proxy) — e.g. mosh / raw sockets.
Not applicable
Egress controlsConfigurable OUTBOUND network policy — egress firewall / allowlist / egress proxy on traffic LEAVING a workload. Scoped to OUTBOUND only (v15): private-network REACHABILITY between a user's own services is private-networking, not this. Static-egress-IP belongs here (an outbound concept).
Partially supported
Private networkingA platform-internal private network between a user's OWN services — service-to-service connectivity, VPC, service mesh, and/or service discovery, not exposed to the public internet. DISTINCT from egress-controls (OUTBOUND firewall/allowlist), reverse-proxy (PUBLIC inbound ingress), and direct-ipv6 (per-instance PUBLIC addressing). Admitted v15.
Partially supported
Email send / receiveSend and/or receive email from the workload.
Not applicable
Edge KV storeA globally-replicated key-value store read from WITHIN an edge runtime at the PoP (low-latency, eventually-consistent) — Cloudflare Workers KV, Deno KV, Fastly KV Store, Akamai EdgeKV, Vercel Edge Config. Distinct from first-party-db (a managed DATABASE service you provision and connect to) and from http-query-api (HTTP access to an external store) — edge-kv is colocated with the edge compute and read at the edge.
Not supported

Developer access 5/5

Public APIDocumented programmatic API.
Supported
OpenAPI specMachine-readable OpenAPI / Swagger spec published.
Supported
CLIOfficial command-line tool.
Supported
SDKOfficial client library/libraries.
Supported
SSH accessDirect SSH into workloads.
Not applicable
Filesystem APIRemote file operations over the API (list/read/write/watch/copy/upload) without SSH.
Not applicable
Git deployDeploy from a Git repo / push-to-deploy.
Not applicable
Private container registryHosted private image registry.
Not applicable
E2B-compatible APIDrop-in compatibility with the E2B sandbox API/SDKs — existing E2B client code runs against this product by changing the endpoint/domain + key, with no business-code changes. E2B itself passes as the reference implementation. Distinct from public-api / sdk (the product has its own API — this key says it also speaks another vendor's) and from self-host-oss (a self-hosted E2B-compatible server is scored on both).
Not applicable
HTTP data APIQuery / read / write the stored DATA over plain HTTP/REST (or GraphQL) WITHOUT the native protocol driver (Postgres wire / Redis RESP) — agent- and edge-friendly data access via fetch(). The DATA plane; distinct from public-api (a control-plane / management API). Auto-generated-from-schema REST/GraphQL (PostgREST, pg_graphql) is a flavour of this.
Supported

AI & agents 4/8

Built-in coding agentShips a first-party AI coding agent in the product.
Not applicable
Agent skillsInstallable / declarable agent skills or tools.
Supported
AI app builderPrompt-to-app / vibe-coding generation surface.
Not applicable
MCP serverExposes a Model Context Protocol server for agents.
Supported
MCP clientActs as an MCP client / consumes MCP tools.
Not supported
MCP-server hostingRun/host MCP servers as a workload on the platform (distinct from exposing a first-party MCP control server — that is mcp-server).
Not applicable
LLM gatewayRoutes LLM API calls through the platform (multi-provider).
Supported
BYOK for LLMsBring-your-own LLM provider keys.
Not supported
Model inference API (first-party)A FIRST-PARTY hosted LLM/model inference API — the provider serves its OWN catalogue of (usually open-weight) models behind a (typically OpenAI-compatible) endpoint, billed per token. Distinct from llm-gateway (a multi-PROVIDER proxy/router for YOUR calls to external providers like OpenAI/Anthropic) and from byok-llm (bring your own provider keys) — here the platform IS the inference provider, serving its own models.
Supported
Autonomous QA agentA first-party AUTONOMOUS AI agent that QA-TESTS a running app / implementation — exercising it like a real user (clicking through flows, checking behaviour) and reporting bugs/defects (often back to a coding agent, or before a human review). Distinct from built-in-agent (a code-AUTHORING agent — this one VERIFIES the result, it does not write the feature; a product can ship both), from ai-guided-code-review (organises a diff for a HUMAN to review — not an autonomous tester), and from observability (runtime metrics/logs, not active testing).
Not supported
Credential-injection proxyThe platform holds real secrets OUTSIDE the workload and injects them on the wire (an egress / broker proxy swaps a placeholder or phantom token for the real credential on matching outbound requests), so code running in the sandbox — e.g. an untrusted agent — never sees or can exfiltrate the real key. Distinct from secrets-management (storage + injection INTO the workload as env vars/files — the workload holds the secret) and from egress-controls (outbound allow/deny POLICY; a product can have an allowlist without injecting credentials, and vice versa).
Not supported
Preinstalled coding agentThe platform installs and launches a THIRD-PARTY coding agent (a harnesses.yml entry — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi ...) inside a workspace/sandbox it provisions, with the agent's auth wired in (your own account or API key), so you start an agent session rather than an empty box. Distinct from built-in-agent (a FIRST-PARTY agent the vendor ships) and from harnesses[] (which records that a harness CAN target the product, not that the product runs it for you).
Not applicable

Data 4/4

First-party databasePlatform-provided managed database.
Supported
Database branchingCopy-on-write branch of a DATABASE (schema + data) as a dev-lifecycle primitive — branch your data like code, usually instant via a metadata operation. Distinct from snapshots-forks (forks a running compute INSTANCE / VM state) and from preview-environments (a full per-PR environment that may USE a DB branch). For a data product a CoW branch maps HERE, not to snapshots-forks.
Supported
Vector searchFirst-class storage, indexing, and similarity search of vector embeddings — a native vector type/index or a managed vector DB. The data-layer primitive for RAG / semantic retrieval.
Supported
Ephemeral instant DB (no-signup)Provision a working, usable instance via a single command / HTTP call with NO account, signup, or card — typically time-boxed (expires unless claimed). A zero-onboarding path an agent can hit directly.
Supported

Platform & operations 2/5

Scheduled tasksCron / scheduled job primitive.
Supported
Durable workflowsDurable execution / long-running workflow primitive.
Not supported
Preview environmentsA full EPHEMERAL environment spun up per PR / branch — compute + addons + (often) a DB branch — torn down on merge. More than preview-urls (which is just a shareable URL for one deploy).
Supported
Built-in observabilityFirst-party metrics / logs / tracing / APM / profiling included in the platform (no third-party stack required to see what a workload is doing).
Partially supported
Managed CI/CD runnersPlatform-hosted, drop-in CI/CD runner VMs (GitHub Actions / GitLab), typically faster and cheaper than the CI vendor's own hosted runners, billed per runner-minute; isolated + ephemeral per job. Distinct from git-deploy (push-to-deploy of an APP) and scheduled-tasks (cron) — this is managed CI COMPUTE you point your existing pipelines at.
Not applicable
Project template marketplaceA marketplace / gallery of prebuilt PROJECT STARTER templates (apps or websites) a user clones or launches a new project from and then customises — the "start from a template" surface of a builder / PaaS. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a COMPUTE base IMAGE you fork runtime INSTANCES from — Dockerfile / OCI), from app-builder (the prompt-to-app GENERATION surface — a product can have both), and from one-click OSS-app catalogues / helm-addon-marketplace (deploy a FINISHED app as-is, not a starter you build on).
Partially supported

Organisation & security 3/9

Built-in authPlatform-provided authentication / IAM for workloads.
Supported
SSO / SAMLEnterprise single sign-on.
Not supported
Secrets managementFirst-class secrets storage / injection.
Supported
TeamsMulti-user team accounts.
Supported
SharingShare a running workload/resource via link (optionally gated).
Partially supported
BYOCRuns inside the customer's own cloud account.
Not supported
Deploy into customers' VPCsA SaaS vendor uses the platform to deploy and operate ITS software inside ITS CUSTOMERS' cloud accounts / VPCs (nested or "customer BYOC"), managed from the vendor's control plane. Distinct from byoc (your own workloads in your own cloud account).
Not supported
Workload identityThe platform gives each workload its own verifiable identity (OIDC token, SPIFFE SVID, cloud IAM federation) that it exchanges for short-lived credentials, so no long-lived static secret is stored or injected. Distinct from secrets-management (stores / injects static secrets) and credential-injection-proxy (swaps real secrets in on the wire).
Not supported
Self-host / OSS coreOpen-source core that can be self-hosted.
Partially supported

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.txt
    Supported
  • llms-full.txt
    Supported
  • robots.txt AI policy
    Supported
  • JSON-LD
    Not supported
  • Sitemap
    Supported
  • Meta tags
    Supported
  • Markdown negotiation
    Supported
  • Content efficiency
    Partially supported
  • Docs discoverable
    Supported
  • Machine-readable pricing
    Supported
  • No anti-bot wall
    Supported

Can an agent drive it?

act-ability · APIs, SDKs, MCP, credentials, webhooks

11/11

11 full · 0 partial · 100% of applicable checks

  • Public API
    Supported
  • OpenAPI spec
    Supported
  • MCP server
    Supported
  • SDK packages
    Supported
  • Auth documented
    Supported
  • Self-serve credentials
    Supported
  • Webhooks
    Supported
  • CLI tool
    Supported
  • Error model
    Supported
  • Rate limits documented
    Supported
  • Agent config files
    Supported

06 Coding harnesses Which agents and IDEs are documented to run here

Advertised integrations 13

  • Claude Code Anthropic
    Supported
  • Cursor Anysphere
    Supported
  • Codex CLI OpenAI
    Supported
  • Gemini CLI Google
    Supported
  • GitHub Copilot GitHub
    Supported
  • Cline Cline
    Supported
  • Windsurf Codeium
    Supported
  • Zed Agent Zed
    Supported
  • OpenCode opencode
    Supported
  • Antigravity Google
    Supported
  • Goose Block
    Supported
  • Kilo Code Kilo
    Supported
  • Kiro 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 27001
    certifiedhosted
  • ISO/IEC 27701
    certifiedhosted
  • SOC 2 Type II
    certifiedhosted
  • HIPAA
    self-attestedhostedHIPAA is a regulatory framework, not a certification. Scale plan and BAA required; only hosted deployment covered.
  • SOC 2 Type I
    certifiedhosted
  • SOC 3
    certifiedhosted
  • CCPA
    self-attestedhosted
  • GDPR
    self-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

Activity

Last release
2026-10-09 neon.com
Last blog post
2026-10-07 neon.com

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
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