Neon
The DIY baseline: serverless Postgres, a typed SQL query builder, nothing else.
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Neon brand colours
Extracted from the artwork and ranked by how much of the mark each covers — not from a brand book, so treat them as observed rather than official.
What Neon is
The reference point for this comparison rather than a competitor: serverless Postgres with branching and scale-to-zero, plus a TypeScript query builder that generates SQL you can read. There is no reactivity, no auth, no storage and no scheduler — you assemble those. In exchange every query is SQL, every migration is a file, and moving to any other Postgres is a connection string change.
Recent changes
- 2025-05-14Databricks agrees to acquire Neon
Databricks announced an agreement to acquire Neon in a deal reported at roughly US$1bn, citing agent-driven database provisioning as the motivation. Neon's branching remains the best fit here for per-agent database environments — now under a very different owner.