Neon alternatives
Every managed databases provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Neon's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Neon's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- Supabasevs NeonEntry paid plan: $25/month for Pro, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits — enough to…
- Aivenvs NeonKind of free offer: Always free vs Free tier
- TigerDatavs NeonEntry paid plan: Compute starts at $30/month on Performance, billed hourly, with storage charged separatel…
- Tursovs NeonEntry paid plan: $4.99/month for Developer, the cheapest paid plan. Scaler is $24.92 and Pro $416.58.
- Prisma Postgresvs NeonKind of free offer: Always free vs Free tier · Engine: PostgreSQL. vs PostgreSQL
- FirebaseEntry paid plan: No plan fee and no stated minimum: Blaze is pay-as-you-go, billed to a linked Cloud Billi…
- Amazon Auroravs NeonKind of free offer: Introductory free tier vs Free tier
- Amazon RDSKind of free offer: Introductory free tier vs Free tier
- Nilevs NeonEntry paid plan: $15/month for Pro, which carries a production SLA. Scale is $350/month.
- PlanetScalevs NeonEntry paid plan: $5/month for a single-node Postgres database on network-attached storage; PlanetScale Met…
- Crunchy Bridgevs NeonEntry paid plan: $9 a month for Hobby-0 — 2 cores, 512 MB, AWS only. Crunchy says the Hobby tier runs on l…
- ScaleGridvs NeonFree tier: No vs Yes · Kind of free offer: Free trial vs Free tier
- Neo4jvs NeonEntry paid plan: $65/GB/month (minimum 1GB cluster) on AuraDB Professional, or $0.09/hour ($65.70/month fo…
Where Neon stands against these 13
Neon's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- Yes. 8 of the 12 alternatives that document it have one: Aiven, Firebase, Neo4j, Nile, Prisma Postgres, Supabase and 2 more.
- Egress over allowance
- 5 GB per project included on Free; 500 GB per project included on Launch and Scale, then $0.10/GB3rd cheapest of the 4 that document it. Cheapest: PlanetScale — 100 GB of egress included, then $0.06/GB.
- Regions
- 8 AWS regions: N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Sydney, São Paulo7th highest of the 9 that document it. Highest: Firebase — 43 regional locations across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and…
- Connection limit
- Scales with compute size: 104 direct connections at 0.25 CU (1 GB RAM), 419 at 1 CU, 2517 at 6 CU; up to…2nd highest of the 5 that document it. Highest: Nile — 10,000 connections on Pro, with connection pooling included.
- Point-in-time recovery
- History window of 6 hours up to 1 GB-month on Free, up to 7 days on Launch, up to 30 days on ScaleJoint 2nd highest of the 5 that document it. Highest: Turso — 10 days on Developer. 1 day on the free plan, 30 days on Scaler and 90 days on Pro.
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.