Best Neon Alternatives
Looking for a Neon alternative? Neon is postgres that branches like Git and scales to zero, so preview environments stop costing you real money. That's a good fit for plenty of teams, but not everyone — here are 6 real database tools worth comparing it against, each with an honest take on what it does differently. Supabase is the one people mention most: a hosted Postgres with auth, storage, and realtime already wired up — the default pick if you don't want to think about infra. PlanetScale is another solid option — vitess-grade MySQL scaling with schema branching, for when you'd rather not fear your next migration. None of these are ranked by who pays the most to be listed first; they're ordered the same way the rest of this directory is, sponsors aside.
A hosted Postgres with auth, storage, and realtime already wired up — the default pick if you don't want to think about infra.
Vitess-grade MySQL scaling with schema branching, for when you'd rather not fear your next migration.
SQLite pushed to the edge and multiplied by thousands — built for per-tenant databases, not one big cluster.
The managed way to run MongoDB when you actually need documents, not rows, and don't want to run the cluster yourself.
Postgres-compatible distributed SQL that keeps writing when a whole region drops — overkill until it isn't.
Redis and vector storage billed per request instead of per idling server — built for functions that sleep most of the day.