Alternatives to Neon

Powabase is a managed Postgres backend for AI apps with RAG, agents, and workflows built in.

Amazon SageMaker unifies data, analytics, and AI on AWS — build, train, and deploy ML models on fully managed infrastructure.

Open-source RAG engine with built-in ETL, hybrid vector/BM25 search and visual agent orchestration for enterprise AI agents.

Maxim AI evaluates, simulates and observes AI agents — with Bifrost, its open-source LLM gateway, handling routing, budgets and guardrails.

TablePlus is a native database GUI for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite with a one-time license.

Databricks runs your lakehouse data, analytics and production AI agents on one governed platform across AWS, Azure and GCP.

pgvector brings open-source vector similarity search to Postgres so embeddings live next to your relational data.

Zilliz Cloud: a fully managed vector database on Milvus for billion-scale AI search, RAG, and recommendations.

TiDB is a distributed SQL database for AI agents that unifies ACID transactions, HTAP analytics, and native vector search in one engine.

Apache Doris unifies OLAP analytics, full-text search, and vector search in one open-source SQL engine.

Zilliz Cloud Serverless is a managed serverless vector database on Milvus, with auto-scaling compute and tiered storage for GenAI apps.

Monid routes autonomous agents to a catalog of data and media APIs on one prepaid balance, metered per call from $0.0013.

Lance is an open lakehouse format for multimodal AI, pairing a file format, table format, and catalog spec with hybrid vector and full-text search on object

PlanetScale: managed Vitess and Neki for horizontal sharding plus Postgres with NVMe speed

DBHub is a minimal database MCP server that connects Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code to PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MariaDB, Oracle,

ArcBox gives each AI agent its own hypervisor-isolated virtual machine — a full OS with its own kernel, kept for months, thrown away in seconds, or handed to a

Dolt is a version-controlled SQL database: branch, diff, merge, and time-travel your data with Git-style commands over MySQL, Postgres, and

PgGraph turns existing PostgreSQL tables into a traversable graph so multi-hop queries run as index lookups instead of join chains.

Knowhere parses PDFs, spreadsheets, slides, and scans into source-linked structured JSON your agents can cite and verify.

Databend is an open-source, cloud-native data warehouse in Rust that runs BI analytics, vector search, full-text search and geospatial on

InterLock is a proxy that authorizes, redacts, and audits every request your AI agents make to production databases, files, and APIs.

Run LLM inference, embeddings, and ML training directly inside PostgreSQL using SQL functions, or use the Korvus SDK for RAG pipelines.

NodeDB is a universal database engine that unifies vector, graph, document, columnar, key-value, full-text, sparse arrays, and CRDT in one binary over plain

Self-hosted DKG node software that gives AI agents verifiable, shared memory across platforms and models.

Long-term memory for AI agents: one process_turn call stores each turn and returns the memories your next prompt needs.

Open-source context retrieval layer that syncs your apps and databases so AI agents query live business data in natural language.

RushDB: graph and vector persistent memory for AI agents, where you push JSON and query one connected graph.

Pinecone is a managed vector database and knowledge engine for RAG, semantic search, and agent retrieval.

Multimodal retrieval that indexes video, image, audio and PDF files straight from your S3, GCS or R2 bucket.

Automated deep learning model optimization for NVIDIA GPUs.