Alternatives

Neon alternatives

Neon is serverless Postgres that branches, autoscale, and backs apps and agents. It is a poor fit if you need a team plan, audit logs, or a phone number to call. Here are 4 tools on Toolora that do a similar job, 3 of them free or with a free tier, and what each one does differently.

Neon profileFree tier + paid compute; scale-to-zero
  1. 01

    PlanetScale

    PaidToolora score90

    Managed Vitess and Postgres in the cloud with branching, sharding, and NVMe-backed Metal

    Instead of Neon: Paid, where Neon has a free option.

    Postgres from $5/mo; Metal from $50/mo

  2. 02

    DBeaver

    FreeToolora score91

    A desktop SQL client for Postgres, MySQL, and dozens of other databases, with a free Community edition

    Instead of Neon: Also covers postgres and database.

    Free Community; paid Team and Enterprise

  3. 03

    TablePlus

    FreeToolora score90

    A native desktop SQL client for Postgres, MySQL, and other databases, with a clean GUI and a free trial

    Instead of Neon: Also covers postgres and database.

    Free trial; paid license for continued use

  4. 04

    pgAdmin

    Open sourceToolora score90

    A free desktop and web GUI for PostgreSQL: browse databases, run SQL, and manage roles

    Instead of Neon: Also covers postgres and database.

    Free / open source

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