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Neon vs YugabyteDB

On the evidence we track, Neon leads this comparison with a composite score of 72/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Neon72
YugabyteDB53
Score
vioscaleAI score
Neon72 / 100medium · 70%
YugabyteDB53 / 100low · 18%
Pricing
Free tier
Neon✓
YugabyteDB✓
Model
Neonfreemium
YugabyteDBopen_source
Price level
Neonlow
YugabyteDBfree
Transparent
Neon✗
YugabyteDB✓
Integrations
Count
Neon2
YugabyteDB4
Security
Disclosure policy
Neon–
YugabyteDB✓
Fedramp
Neon✓
YugabyteDB–
Gdpr
Neon✓
YugabyteDB✓
Hipaa
Neon✓
YugabyteDB–
Iso27001
Neon✓
YugabyteDB✓
Pci
Neon✓
YugabyteDB–
Soc2
Neon✓
YugabyteDB✓
Reliability
Sla pct
Neon99.95
YugabyteDB–
Status page
Neon✓
YugabyteDB✓
Content
Faq
Neon5 items
YugabyteDB4 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for relational databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
SQL model
NeonFull SQL
YugabyteDBFull SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
NeonFull
YugabyteDBFull
Highest isolation level
NeonSerializable
YugabyteDBSerializable
Consistency
Consistency
NeonStrong
YugabyteDBStrong
Scale
Horizontal scale
NeonRead replicas
YugabyteDBNatively distributed
Replication
Replication
NeonAsync
YugabyteDBConsensus (Raft/Paxos)
Availability
Automatic failover / HA
Neon✓
YugabyteDB✓
Deployment
Deployment
NeonManaged
YugabyteDBSelf-hosted
Serverless / scale-to-zero
Neon✓
YugabyteDB-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility
NeonPostgres protocol
YugabyteDBPostgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs
Neon-
YugabyteDB✓
Licensing
Licence class
NeonProprietary
YugabyteDBPermissive OSS
Data types
JSON / document support
Neon-
YugabyteDB✓
Geo / spatial
Neon-
YugabyteDB-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Neon

Leader

A fully-managed PostgreSQL database that automatically scales compute resources, supports Git-like environment branching, and includes built-in user authentication without additional licensing.

Independently observed

YugabyteDB

An open-source distributed SQL database designed for cloud-native deployments that provides PostgreSQL compatibility with high performance and horizontal scalability.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Neon

Leader
from $0.00/moUsage-basedFree tier

Free tier with 100 CU-hours/mo. Usage-based: Launch plan $0.106/CU-hr + $0.35/GB-mo, Scale plan $0.222/CU-hr + $0.35/GB-mo. Typical $15–$701/mo.

  • FreeFree
    • 100 projects
    • 100 CU-hours monthly per project
    • 0.5 GB storage per project
    • Compute up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM)
    • Unlimited team members
    • +4 more
  • LaunchUsage-based, typical $15/mo (intermittent load, 1 GB)
    • Compute autoscaling up to 16 CU
    • Scale to zero when inactive
    • Database storage with 7-day instant restore history
    • 100 snapshots
    • Monitoring with 3-day retention
    • +4 more
  • ScaleUsage-based, typical $701/mo (high load, 100 GB)
    • Compute autoscaling up to 56 CU
    • Configurable scale-to-zero
    • Database storage with up to 30-day instant restore history
    • 100 snapshots
    • SLAs included
    • +8 more
as of verify ↗

YugabyteDB

from $125/moHybridFree tier

From $125/vCPU/month. Free tier available. Storage and data transfer costs additional.

  • Standard$125/vCPU/month
    • PostgreSQL API (YSQL)
    • Cassandra API (YCQL)
    • Change Data Capture
    • Single-region fault tolerance
    • PostgreSQL extensions
    • +7 more
  • Professional$167/vCPU/month
    • All Standard features
    • Multi-region stretched clusters
    • Read Replicas
    • Row-level geo-partitioning for data residency
    • Performance Advisor
    • +3 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Professional features
    • Customer Managed Keys (CMK) encryption at rest
    • Single Sign On via OpenID Connect (OIDC)
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
CLI
Neon✓
YugabyteDB–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Neon✓
YugabyteDB✓
Self-hosted
Neon✗
YugabyteDB✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Neon

Leader
2 total
  • Datadog
  • OpenTelemetry
Independently observed

YugabyteDB

5 total
  • Arctype SQL Client
  • Debezium
  • Terraform
  • Helm
  • PostgreSQL
Independently observed
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