Managed relational databases · RankedNeon
Neon is a serverless Postgres backend for apps and agents, offering Lakebase Postgres, Auth, Functions, Storage and an AI Gateway with instant, branchable databases · neon.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Supabase is first at 29%.
Amazon RDS is first at 51%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Amazon Aurora is first at 43%.
Why models recommend it
“If you're just starting out: Use Neon (free tier) or Supabase (free tier).”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Go with Supabase or Neon if you are building a new web app”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“consider Neon instead: its Postgres pricing is usage-based with no monthly minimum, and it has a free tier”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Use managed databases with built-in HTTP/Websocket proxies or transaction poolers (e.g., Neon”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“can be attractive depending on your architecture, but I'd be more cautious for core production systems”GPT-5.4 mini · Paraphrase question · warning
“These are rising for mid-sized B2B but less "enterprise battle-tested" than the big three.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Neon, over the 71 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 19 | Compare → | |
| 57 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 53 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 37 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 36 | 2 | View → | |
| 32 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 30 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Neon →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Neon's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- developers, agents
- Price stated
- Usage-based pricing
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Powerful Free Tier
- Certifications
- CCPA, GDPR, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2, HIPAA
- Customers named
- Encore, Snaplet, Hasura, Vercel, WunderGraph, Dynaboard, Bunnyshell
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 47 of the 71 answers that named Neon and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
131 of the 153 domain citations in answers naming Neon came from a third party's page. Twenty-two were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 486 | 36 | 2026-09-28 | Object storage, ETL | |
| Report or ebook | 366 | undated | Feature flags, Object storage | ||
| Comparison | 12 | 0 | 2026-01-23 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 0 | 2023-11-22 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | 0 | 2025-01-29 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Inside branch based restores in lakebase postgres blog
- 2026-09-24Electrifying Neon: building the realtime backend - Neon blog
- 2026-09-22When a file is uploaded, run the job on Neon - Neon blog
- 2026-09-21Custom domains for neon functions blog
- 2026-09-21Your Neon Functions can now run on a schedule - Neon blog
- 2026-09-17The Neon backend is GA: a complete set of primitives so agents can build - Neon blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page neon.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.