The Neon Data API is now live, a PostgREST-compatible way to query Neon directly over HTTPS. If you’ve used PostgREST before (or you have a platform built on it), you’ll feel right at home: the protocol for the Neon Data API is identical, and migration is as simple as pointing your client to a new […]
“Our system can’t afford any downtime. We manage field staff operations for thousands of workers through WhatsApp, and if a message fails to write, it’s lost. We’re leveraging all of Neon’s multi-region flexibility, autoscaling, and read replicas to optimize reliability at scale” (Ahsan Nabi Dar, CTO and co-founder of DAT) DAT is a Pakistan-based startup […]
Modern GPS datasets are notoriously noisy: satellites drift, buildings scatter signals, and consumer devices introduce frequent errors. When working with millions of position samples from vehicles, smartphones, or IoT devices, this noise makes analysis unreliable. Routes jump, tracks zigzag, and outliers distort aggregates. The Kalman Filter is the standard technique for smoothing such data. Traditionally, […]
Postgres 18 just shipped, and as always, it’s available in preview on Neon right away. You can try it right now on Neon’s Free plan, no credit card or setup required. New Features in Postgres 18 Postgres 18 comes with a ton of other exciting updates around performance, flexibility, and developer experience. Here are just […]
Elephantshark helps you monitor, understand and troubleshoot Postgres network traffic: that’s Postgres servers, clients, drivers and ORMs talking to Postgres servers, proxies and poolers. Elephantshark sits between the two parties in a Postgres-protocol exchange, forwarding messages in both directions while parsing and logging them. It is an open-source Ruby script published by Neon and works […]
You can now create Neon snapshots via API. This new capability isn’t just useful for backups or disaster recovery, but also serves as a powerful building block for one of the most requested features in agentic platforms: versioning (or checkpoints). Neon’s snapshots, built on our copy-on-write branching, make it simple and cost-effective to implement this […]
You’ve heard this many times before – in order to keep your Postgres database working smoothly, you need to have proper index planning. Too few indexes, and your query performance suffers. Misestimated row counts can also trick the planner into poor choices, and if you’re not using prepared statements, query planning can add overhead. The […]
“We recently shipped a big update and we probably couldn’t have done it without Neon branching. It lets us test big migrations safely with production data, and if something breaks, we just delete the branch and start fresh. That makes us a lot faster and more confident when shipping, even as a small team” (Dominik […]
OpenAI just launched support for MCP servers in ChatGPT, letting you connect external tools – including Neon! Via Neon’s MCP server, you can bring your Postgres projects into ChatGPT and ask questions about resource usage, database activity, branches, and more. ChatGPT Now Supports MCP Servers MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard that allows […]
You can mock database calls all day long, but when your code hits production, the real database doesn’t lie. Unique constraints fail, transactions don’t roll back as they should, and subtle behaviors that mocks can’t reproduce, causing bad code to go into production. Running integration tests against a real database should catch these issues, but […]
Most database providers follow the classic SaaS playbook: bundle features into tiered plans with progressively higher monthly fees. This looks neat on a pricing page. Almost nobody questions this model, but it creates a quagmire inside product teams. We know it from experience, and if you’ve worked in a database company, you know it too. […]
Note: This blog post was updated on October 31, 2025 to reflect changes in the Free Plan limits. Neon’s Free Plan is packed with everything you need to start building with Postgres – we’ve seen developers ship amazing things with it. If you’re new to Neon, let us share some tips to make sure you […]
Using AI coding assistants like Cursor to build your full-stack apps makes for a powerful workflow, but they don’t always know the specifics of every tool – including Neon – and can do a little help. To give your editor Neon-specific context and help it generate better code from the start, we’ve created a set […]
Postgres is one of the most versatile databases out there. You can store vectors, declare row-level security rules, run background jobs, and more. Its simplicity and extensibility make it a workhorse for everything from side projects to large-scale systems. But that flexibility comes with a trade-off: As your schema grows and more engineers touch it, […]
“I was surprised by how fast Neon was. It was faster than my self-hosted setup and Prisma Postgres. This plus the convenience of the Free Plan makes it a no-brainer for building your projects.” (Issa Nassar, founder of Databuddy) Databuddy is a new privacy-first web and product analytics platform that strikes the perfect balance between […]
LLMs are fantastic at code generation. They can produce hundreds of lines of code, entire functions and components, that compile perfectly, implement complex algorithms elegantly, and even follow best practices for style and structure. They suck at full-blown software generation, though. Production-ready software is more than a couple of files of code. It requires consistent […]
Postgres is loved not just for what it is, but for what it can become: its extension system lets you transform your database into a full-text search engine, a geospatial powerhouse, or a vector store for embeddings – all without switching tools. With many thousands of active databases running on our platform at any given […]
In Neon, we’re always trying to strike a balance between out-of-the-box configurations that work for most people and the flexibility to accommodate a wide range of use cases. By tweaking features like autoscaling, branching, and scale to zero, you can optimize Neon for many different scenarios – from low-cost development environments to production setups that […]
In the Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey, “84% of respondents are using or planning to use AI tools in their development process.” They don’t break this number down by developer language, but if they did, they would likely find a wide disparity between different languages. While TS/JS and Python coders are probably using AI every […]
We’ve just rolled out a major update to Neon’s pricing. Starting today, our paid plans are fully usage-based. That means you only pay for what you use, with no quotas to manage, no overages to worry about, and no need to guess how much capacity you’ll need upfront. We’re only enforcing a $5/month minimum spend […]