
Alternatives to Neon
20 listed candidates
Serverless Postgres with database branching, scale-to-zero compute, and a generous free tier.
MongoDB Atlas
FreemiumThe fully-managed cloud version of MongoDB with built-in search, vector search, time series, and serverless tiers.

Turso
FreemiumDistributed SQLite at the edge. Replicate a libSQL database to dozens of regions for sub-10ms reads.
PlanetScale
FreemiumServerless MySQL platform with branching and zero-downtime migrations

Upstash
FreemiumServerless Redis, Kafka, and QStash for modern applications

Enclave
PaidSelf-serve confidential GPU compute with hardware-enforced isolation and cryptographic attestation

Spice.ai
Open SourceReal-time analytical query on operational data, without ETL

Railway
FreemiumDeploy apps to production infrastructure in seconds

DataExpert.io Academy
PaidLive and self-paced academy that trains you for real data engineering and AI jobs
Polygres
Open SourcePostgres for the agent era with native graph and vector search in one instance
o3k
Open SourceLightweight OpenStack-compatible control plane in a single Go binary for labs and tests

Computable
PaidBuy and sell GPU compute hours by the week through sealed-bid auctions
Rilavek
FreemiumStream FTP, SFTP, and TUS uploads straight to S3 with no disk buffer
Leenar
FreeDescribe your stack in plain English and Leenar provisions your cloud infrastructure automatically

NS6
PaidDomain registrar with free WHOIS privacy, DNS hosting, SSL, and email forwarding included

Mini DBA
FreemiumMulti-platform database monitoring with AI-assisted performance investigation from one console
drawDB
FreemiumOpen-source ER diagram editor with Pro cloud sync, live collaboration, and an MCP server for agents

Compute Cheap
PaidReserved and interruptible H100 and H200 GPU blocks from $1.15 an hour, billed per GPU-hour

Widen
Open SourceNative Mac Postgres GUI with text-to-SQL that verifies queries before running them
Portus
Open SourceRun Kubernetes, LLM, and MCP traffic through one Rust gateway
Jylus
FreemiumGive AI models compact, source-backed evidence from changing data