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Neon vs PlanetScale
Side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, and ratings
Pricing
Freemium
Paid
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Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
API Available
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Categories
📊 Data & Analytics⚙️ Developer Infrastructure
📊 Data & Analytics⚙️ Developer Infrastructure
Features
Serverless Postgres with compute-storage separation
Autoscaling CPU, memory and storage
Instant database branching with copy-on-write
Built-in user authentication and sessions
Data API via REST HTTP
Connection pooling
Instant point-in-time recovery
Read replicas (autoscaling)
Database anonymization for safe testing
Ephemeral branches with auto-delete
Private networking via PrivateLink
Logs and metrics export to Datadog/OTel
Single sign-on (SSO)
Uptime SLA (99.95% on Scale plan)
AI Gateway for multiple models
Vitess horizontal sharding for MySQL
Postgres managed clusters starting at $5/month
PlanetScale Metal NVMe with unlimited IOPS
Database Traffic Control for query budgets
Branch-per-environment with prorated pricing
Online schema migrations with zero data loss
Revertable schema changes
High availability across 3 AZs with auto-failover
Connection pooling with PgBouncer
Automated backups
Read replicas for scaling reads
99.999% multi-region uptime SLA
Bring your own cloud (PlanetScale Managed)
AWS and GCP marketplace availability
Neki Postgres sharding (early access)
Integrations
Datadog
OpenTelemetry
GitHub
Discord
X (Twitter)
LinkedIn
YouTube
AWS
GCP
PgBouncer
AWS Marketplace
GCP Marketplace