What is Neon Serverless Postgres?

Managing traditional database infrastructure often involves complexities that slow down development – manual scaling, tedious provisioning, and constant upkeep. Neon reimagines Postgres for the cloud, offering a serverless platform designed to eliminate these hurdles. We empower you to focus on building reliable and scalable applications, shipping features faster while optimizing costs.

Neon combines the familiarity and power of Postgres with a modern, serverless architecture. This means you get the database you trust, enhanced with capabilities purpose-built for today's development workflows and cloud environments.

Key Features Driving Your Development Velocity

🔄 Effortless Autoscaling & Scale-to-Zero: Neon automatically adjusts compute resources based on your application's real-time load. When idle, it can scale down to zero, ensuring you only pay for what you actively use. This eliminates manual scaling guesswork and significantly reduces costs for variable workloads.
🌿 Instant Database Branching: Create complete, isolated copies of your database schema and data in seconds, not hours. Powered by copy-on-write storage, branching allows you to develop, test features, run CI/CD pipelines, or perform schema migrations without impacting production or incurring massive storage overhead.
⚡ Instant Provisioning: Spin up a fully functional Postgres database in approximately 300 milliseconds. No waiting, no complex configuration – just grab your connection string and start coding immediately.
🐘 True Postgres Compatibility:Neon is Postgres. It's not a fork or emulation. Your existing Postgres applications, tools, drivers, and expertise work seamlessly. Migrate existing workloads easily and leverage the rich Postgres ecosystem, including popular extensions like pgvector for AI applications, without fear of vendor lock-in.
🛠️ Managed Database Operations: Forget about the operational burdens of database administration. Neon handles high availability, backups (with Point-in-Time Recovery up to 30 days), maintenance, and scaling, freeing up your team to concentrate on application logic and feature development.
💡 Optimized for AI & Modern Workflows: Build next-generation applications with built-in support for pgvector and efficient HNSW indexing for high-dimensional vector search. Neon's API and CLI enable programmatic management, ideal for database-per-tenant architectures and automation.

How Developers Leverage Neon

Accelerated Development & Testing Cycles: Imagine you need to implement a significant new feature requiring schema changes. With Neon, you instantly branch your main database. Your team develops and tests against this isolated branch, using real data structures without affecting production users. Once validated, changes are merged, and the branch is deleted – drastically reducing risk and speeding up iteration.
Cost-Effective Handling of Variable Loads: Consider an e-commerce site experiencing sharp traffic peaks during sales events but low activity overnight. Neon automatically scales compute resources up to handle the surge, ensuring smooth performance. During quiet periods, it scales down, potentially to zero, minimizing infrastructure costs without requiring manual intervention or capacity planning.
Streamlined AI Application Development: You're building an AI-powered semantic search feature using vector embeddings. Neon allows you to store and query these embeddings directly within your Postgres database using pgvector. The platform's efficient indexing and serverless nature mean you can scale your AI capabilities easily alongside your core application data, simplifying your stack.

Ship Confidently with Serverless Postgres

Neon Serverless Postgres fundamentally changes how you interact with your database. By separating storage and compute, we provide unparalleled elasticity, cost-efficiency, and developer productivity. You get instant access to Postgres resources when you need them, automatic scaling that adapts to your load, and powerful development tools like branching – all without the traditional overhead. It's Postgres, enhanced for the speed and demands of modern application development.