Neon

Complete Backend Platform Built on Lakebase Postgres

Neon is a serverless Postgres backend platform designed for modern full-stack applications and AI agents. Built around Lakebase Postgres architecture and now part of the Databricks Platform, Neon decouples storage and compute to deliver instant operations, seamless scalability, and powerful developer workflows. It's trusted by over 3 million developers worldwide and used by 70% of Fortune 500 companies building on the Databricks ecosystem.

What It Does

Neon provides a complete backend infrastructure that goes beyond traditional databases. It includes:

• Lakebase Postgres – Serverless Postgres database that scales and branches with your application • Authentication – Fully-managed user auth built on Better Auth, included in every database for free • Object Storage – S3-compatible storage that branches with your projects • Functions – Serverless compute running close to your database without timeouts • AI Gateway – One API for all frontier and open-source models, powered by Databricks • Realtime – Live SQL queries with full reactivity (in beta)

Who It's For

Neon serves three primary audiences: startups shipping fast and iterating frequently, enterprises running critical workloads at scale, and AI agent platforms (like Replit and v0) that need to deploy isolated backends for their end users. The platform supports both manual developer workflows and agent-driven automation through MCP, CLI, and SDK access.

Key Features & Workflows

The platform's signature branching capability allows developers to create instant, isolated copies of their entire backend—database, storage, and configuration—making it ideal for preview environments, testing, and safe experimentation. Autoscaling monitors database load ten times per second and scales CPU and memory in real-time to match workload demands, preventing outages while optimizing costs. The Lakebase architecture enables instant restore and replication of large databases in seconds, and scale-to-zero keeps non-production costs minimal.

Developers can operate Neon through traditional interfaces or let AI agents handle infrastructure provisioning, branching, and environment management. Every change can be isolated, tested, and rolled back, enabling fast development with built-in safety.

Pricing & Scale

Neon offers a powerful free tier with 100 projects including database, storage, functions, and auth. Usage-based pricing means you pay only for resources actually consumed, with no fixed fees for security and compliance features. The AI Gateway provides at-cost rates for frontier models with no add-on fees. The platform scales seamlessly from bootstrapped startups to Fortune 500 production workloads, with over 100,000 projects built and launched to date.