Neon alternatives
Excellent serverless Postgres for agent apps that want branching + pgvector without Supabase's full BaaS.
Overall 8.59 (curated_estimate, high) · score asOf 2026-09-14 · last reviewed 2026-09-14. This is not an Elo and not a live price board. Provider · JSON
Jobs: postgres-vector, serverless-db, app-backend, edge-sqlite-agent-db, serverless-edge-redis, spreadsheet-sql-agents
| Provider | Why listed | Overall | Δ vs subject | asOf |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supabase (pgvector) Depot default for most agent apps under ~25–50M vectors. Don't add Pinecone until Postgres actually hurts. | same_jtbd_pick, same_jtbd_runner · postgres-vector, serverless-db, app-backend | 8.64high | +0.05 | 2026-09-14 |
| Upstash Redis Default serverless-edge-redis. Use classic Redis Cloud when you need always-on fat memory / Redis modules… | same_jtbd_pick · serverless-edge-redis | 8.49high | -0.1 | 2026-09-14 |
| MotherDuck Depot pick when the agent needs SQL warehouse context (analytics, DuckLake/Iceberg, shared Guides). Snowflake… | same_jtbd_pick · spreadsheet-sql-agents | 8.44high | -0.15 | 2026-10-19 |
| Turso Depot pick for edge/per-tenant SQLite agent state. Serverless Postgres pick stays Neon; hot KV stays Redis… | same_jtbd_pick · edge-sqlite-agent-db | 8.22high | -0.37 | 2026-09-14 |
| Cloudflare Workers Best edge runtime for lightweight agent gateways and tools. Heavy LLM loops still belong on Modal/Fly/GPU… | same_jtbd_runner · edge-sqlite-agent-db, serverless-edge-redis | 8.53high | -0.06 | 2026-09-14 |
| PlanetScale Serverless DB peer when branching DX matters. Prefer Neon/Supabase for default Postgres+pgvector agents… | same_jtbd_runner · serverless-db, app-backend | 8.23high | -0.36 | 2026-09-14 |
| Clerk Depot default auth for agent products with users. WorkOS when enterprise SSO is the main job. | same_jtbd_runner · app-backend | 8.43high | -0.16 | 2026-10-19 |
| Railway Depot favorite for shipping agent APIs quickly. When bills climb, move steady-state to Fly/Hetzner/DO. | same_jtbd_runner · app-backend | 8.08high | -0.51 | 2026-09-14 |
| Redis Use as agent hot memory/cache, not as your only 100M-vector archive. | same_jtbd_runner · serverless-edge-redis | 8.07high | -0.52 | 2026-09-14 |
| AWS EC2 Default enterprise VM substrate. Agents should wrap it — humans shouldn't live in the console. | same_jtbd_runner · postgres-vector | 8.01high | -0.58 | 2026-09-14 |
| DuckDB (vector/extensions) Use for local analytics + light vector experiments. Production agent memory → pgvector/Qdrant/Mem0. | same_jtbd_runner · spreadsheet-sql-agents | 8high | -0.59 | 2026-09-14 |
| Composio Depot pick for tool/MCP router with managed OAuth across 1500+ apps. Official rate card is now public — Hobby… | same_jtbd_runner · spreadsheet-sql-agents | 7.62high | -0.97 | 2026-10-19 |
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