Neon vs ScreenplayIQ

Neon's feature set is infrastructure: Lakebase Postgres with storage-compute separation, CPU/memory/storage autoscaling even on the Free plan, copy-on-write database branching, ephemeral self-deleting branches, point-in-time restore, managed Better Auth, PgBouncer pooling up to 10,000 connections, Lakebase Search (vector, keyword, hybrid), a Data API for HTTP SQL queries, S3-compatible Object Storage, Functions with cron and object-created triggers, and an AI Gateway serving frontier and open-weight models at provider prices with no markup. Integrations are developer-stack staples: Prisma, Drizzle, Kysely, Next.js, Vercel, Netlify, Railway, Cloudflare Workers, Datadog, SigNoz, Docker, GitHub Actions.

ScreenplayIQ's feature set is editorial: AI screenplay analysis with logline and synopsis generation, similar films and TV comparisons, character emotional journey charts, visual representations of characters, story-point breakdowns per script, assessment and theme analysis, and a proofread add-on with inline issue highlighting. It handles WGA-compliant scripts, stores them in siloed secure storage, and states analyzed stories are not used to train LLM models. There are no listed integrations.

The only conceptual bridge is that Neon's AI Gateway could host a model, but Neon is not a screenplay analyzer and ScreenplayIQ has zero database features — a buyer never weighs them side by side.

Neon uses a freemium model: a Free plan that still includes autoscaling, plus paid tiers that unlock higher usage, with HIPAA and SOC2 gated behind the Scale plan. Its new backend primitives — AI Gateway and Data API — are sold via prepaid credits, with the Gateway explicitly priced at provider rates with no markup. There is no per-unit public price list in the data beyond that.

ScreenplayIQ is the opposite model: paid, per script, with page-length-based pricing for TV and feature scripts, and customizable analysis packages that scale from Story Analysis up through Story + Character to Full Evaluation. There's a Proofread add-on. Crucially, there's no monthly subscription and no free full-featured tier — you pay each time you submit a script, which suits occasional users who would otherwise pay for idle months.

Comparing them on price is meaningless: Neon's cost scales with compute, storage, and credits consumed by your app; ScreenplayIQ's cost scales with how many pages and how many scripts you analyze. Budget them in totally different line items.