AI Infrastructure · Reviewed August 28, 2026
Neon green logo mark on dark background

Neon

Serverless Postgres with instant branching and pgvector — with an official MCP server so AI agents can create databases and run queries in natural language.

Pricing
Freemium
Rating
4.9/ 5 · 195 reviews
Last reviewed
August 28, 2026
Neon homepage showing serverless Postgres database platform interface

Acquired Neon

Acquired · May 2025

Its acquisition by Databricks was announced on 14 May 2025 at a reported $1B, bringing serverless Postgres into the lakehouse. Still operating: Neon continues to ship under its own name and brand, now at neon.com, with the founding team inside Databricks and the majority of new databases created by AI agents rather than people.

Acquired by Databricks.

Is Neon shut down?

No — Neon is still operating. Its acquisition by Databricks was announced on May 14, 2025, and the product continues to ship. We list it in the ToolDirectory.AI graveyard's acquired-but-operating section and watch for post-acquisition changes.

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Overview

Neon

Neon is serverless Postgres — a managed database that separates storage and compute, adds instant branching like Git, scales to zero, and supports pgvector for embeddings, making it a common backing store for AI apps.

Neon ships an official MCP server (mcp-server-neon) that lets AI agents manage Neon through the Model Context Protocol — create databases and branches, run SQL, and manage projects in natural language. It is first-party and authenticates to your Neon account, so an agent can provision and query real infrastructure.

For teams building AI features on Postgres, Neon is both the database and something agents can operate.

Acquisition note (May 2025): Neon's acquisition by Databricks was announced on 14 May 2025 at a reported $1B. The product continues to ship under its own brand as Databricks' serverless Postgres offering, and the site has moved from neon.tech to neon.com.

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Why Use Neon

Rating
4.9
Across 195 verified reviews
Saved
390
By ToolDirectory readers
Pricing
Freemium
Publisher-listed pricing model
Listed
Since 2026
Continuously re-reviewed by editors
Category
AI Infrastructure
Primary listing
Verified by editors during the most recent review · ToolDirectory.AI
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User Reviews

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Out of 5 · 195 ratings
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