NeonvsPlanetScale
Neon against PlanetScale, side by side on what each one states publicly about pricing, funding and features. Both compete in Devtools.
Neon
Neon provides a Postgres-based backend platform with authentication, object storage, functions, and an AI Gateway for apps and agents.
PlanetScale
PlanetScale provides managed cloud databases for MySQL/Vitess, sharded Postgres, and Postgres workloads.
| Neon | Stat | PlanetScale |
|---|---|---|
| Not stated | Starting price | From $5/mo |
| Free plan, paid upgrades | Pricing | Paid |
| Not stated | Last round | Not stated |
| Not stated | Funding disclosed | Not stated |
| 12 | Features listed | 12 |
| Not stated | Founded | 2018 |
| Not stated | HQ country | Not stated |
Only Neon lists
- Serverless Postgres
- Autoscaling compute
- Scale to zero
- Managed authentication
- Object storage
- Serverless functions
- AI Gateway
- Realtime beta
- Managed Data API
Only PlanetScale lists
- Horizontal sharding
- Online schema changes
- Automated backups
- Query insights
- Automated failover
- Multi-region support
- Point-in-time recovery
- Database traffic control
- AI agent optimization
Both list: Database branching, Connection pooling, Read replicas.