# Neon alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 203 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Neon holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/neon/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Amazon RDS: 61
- Amazon Aurora: 34
- Azure SQL Database: 16
- Google Cloud SQL: 13
- Supabase: 6
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases: 5

## Managed relational databases

**Small business**: 49 of 84 answers did not name Neon (Neon is #4 of 8 at 7%).

- Amazon RDS: first choice in 11 of those 49
- Supabase: first choice in 6 of those 49
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases: first choice in 4 of those 49
- Google Cloud SQL: first choice in 4 of those 49
- Amazon Aurora: first choice in 3 of those 49
- Azure SQL Database: first choice in 2 of those 49
- Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) from AWS: first choice in 1 of those 49
- Amazon RDS with PostgreSQL: first choice in 1 of those 49

**Mid-market**: 70 of 84 answers did not name Neon (Neon is #7 of 11 at 4%).

- Amazon RDS: first choice in 34 of those 70
- Amazon Aurora: first choice in 6 of those 70
- Azure SQL Database: first choice in 6 of those 70
- Google Cloud SQL: first choice in 4 of those 70
- AWS Amazon RDS: first choice in 1 of those 70
- Aiven Developer Tier for PostgreSQL / MySQL: first choice in 1 of those 70
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or MySQL: first choice in 1 of those 70
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases: first choice in 1 of those 70

**Enterprise**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Neon.

- Amazon Aurora: first choice in 25 of those 84
- Amazon RDS: first choice in 16 of those 84
- Azure SQL Database: first choice in 8 of those 84
- Google Cloud SQL: first choice in 5 of those 84
- Azure SQL Managed Instance: first choice in 2 of those 84
- AWS: first choice in 1 of those 84
- Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized: first choice in 1 of those 84
- Azure SQL Database / Managed Instance: first choice in 1 of those 84

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