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.
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.