Neon
Fast Postgres Databases for Teams and Agents
Neon is a serverless Postgres platform built for developers and AI agents, offering autoscaling, instant database branching, and built-in authentication. It was founded by Postgres committers and became a Databricks company in 2025. Neon handles infrastructure automatically so teams can focus on building and shipping applications faster.
Neon provides a serverless Postgres platform with automatic scaling, instant database branching for safe testing, and usage-based pricing so developers never pay for idle resources.
Software developers and engineering teams building scalable applications
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- Neon (a Databricks company)
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