The latest product updates from Neon
Recently, everyone has been talking about throwing it all away and building entirely new magic sci-fi cloud infrastructure for agents. Building real infrastructure is hard enough as it is. AI has onl…
In the last year, agents have strained the limits of cloud infrastructure with new usage patterns: higher throughput of control-plane operations, more demand for on-demand infrastructure, and capacit…
We've been working on neon-for-agent-platforms, a companion skill that complements our existing neon-postgres skill. The existing skill covers auth, drivers, branching, the Data API, MCP, and core Po…
We've managed to give customers up to 5x performance increase on write-heavy workloads by disabling full-page writes, a Postgres durability safety feature that is made redundant by Neon's own storage…
Your team ships a new feature, traffic spikes, and autoscaling does its job. Great — until the bill arrives and it’s three times what anyone expected. By then it’s too late to do anything about it. M…
A year ago, if you asked an agent about Neon, you got whatever it half-remembered from training. Now it goes looking and reads what it finds. Our docs were written for humans who scroll, not machines…
An official Neon plugin is now available in the OpenAI Codex marketplace. It connects Codex directly to your Neon databases through MCP, so you can provision and manage Postgres databases without lea…
Ensuring customer databases are always available is one of the most important things we do in Neon and Lakebase. We’ve designed the system with redundancy at every level, automatically failing over a…
For most of 2025, AI coding agents got good at a specific thing: writing code. Give an agent a prompt, and it could scaffold an app, wire up an API, write migrations. But when the code was done, the…
“I’m genuinely surprised by how well it handles that scale. You can create tons of databases and they’re available immediately. You can branch out immediately. All of those things make it really nice…
There are a few different reasons to hit the brakes on a Postgres query. Maybe it’s taking too long to finish. Maybe you realised you forgot to create an index that will make it orders of magnitude q…
“The biggest strength of Neon is how it decouples storage and compute and makes them independently scalable. When an app isn’t being used, the compute node can be put in idle mode at extremely low co…
From the start, the team at Encore has been focused on solving a simple problem: shipping production infrastructure shouldn’t require a dedicated platform engineering team. They set out to make deplo…
Every AI lab is shipping research agents. OpenAI’s Deep Research, Perplexity, and Gemini’s research mode. These products are not simple RAG pipelines. Recent papers like DeepResearcher and Step-DeepR…
Cursor just launched plugins, making it easier than ever to give Cursor structured access to external tools and infrastructure. Neon is part of the initial launch set: you can install the Neon plugin…
View the Autoscaling Report here.
A few weeks ago, Vercel released add-skill (now npx skills), a CLI for installing agent skills across different coding agents and editors like Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code. It solves a very real…
“We were getting ready to hire dedicated engineers just to manage and scale Zite Database. With Neon, we didn’t need to do that – we were able to give every end user their own database, including on…
v0 just went through a big rebuild. What started as a fast way to explore ideas has now evolved into a platform designed to ship real, production-ready software, not just quick demos or one-off proto…
“Agents don’t want heavyweight infrastructure that lives forever, they want primitives they can spin up, use, and discard as part of their work. Neon fits that model perfectly: it behaves the way age…
“Neon branching fundamentally accelerates our developer experience. It’s a huge reason we’re able to ship faster without worrying about breaking things” (Ben Vinegar, Co-founder at Modem) If you’re a…
If you’ve a VS Code user, you might remember the Neon extension under its earlier name, Neon Local Connect. We recently shipped an update for the extension with much more complete functionality: it n…
2026 is starting off hot, and skills are suddenly everywhere. The Agent Skills spec is now supported across all major coding agents and increasingly adopted by developer tools, including Neon. But le…
“Fimo lets teams experiment without fear because you can always roll back. Neon’s branches and snapshots are what make that possible” Pierre Burgy, CEO at Strapi The good folks at Strapi just launche…
“Neon was so easy to get started, and it worked flawlessly with TanStack Start and TanStack Query. When you start a new project with TanStack Start and select Neon in the CLI, you get a working datab…
If you’re integrating your Vercel preview deployments with Neon, you’re already getting an isolated Postgres branch per preview. We just extended the same automation to authentication. When you use N…
The logo is refreshed, but it’s still recognizably true to the elephant and N that we founded the company with. Did you know there has always been an elephant hiding in it? This update helps bring ou…
“We chose Neon as our backend because of scale, cost-efficiency, and superior developer and user experience, all critical for Atoms’ multi-tenant architecture. Each user app needs its own dedicated d…
Neon is made by Postgres people. Since Neon became part of Databricks, we Postgres people also find ourselves part of a larger organisation of enterprise data people. This post is about what I’ve lea…
You just opened a PR that adds a new user role to your app. Your staging database has the schema changes. Your preview deploy is live. But when QA tries to test it, they hit a wall: the test users in…
Looking back at 2025, AI changed coding for good. Early in the year, skepticism around AI-assisted coding was still high and capabilities were limited. Now it’s clear that vibe coding has gone mainst…
“Neon’s branching gave us the last missing piece in our RISE (Robust Isolated Staging Environment): true database isolation. The services that touched schema changes or write-heavy paths could never…
If your application has user accounts, authentication touches everything: who can access what, what data belongs to whom, and how your system behaves when sessions expire or credentials are invalid.…
Staging environments drift. The fix is obvious: refresh staging from production regularly. The problem is that “regularly” and “multi-hour database copy” don’t mix well. Three traditional approaches…
Something fairly big happened at Neon recently, but nobody noticed – and that’s a good thing. We silently migrated many thousands of user accounts to organizations (team-owned accounts), moving more…
We just launched Neon Auth and of course the immediate follow-up task I had was “let’s teach my AI tools to use it for me”. So we’ve been wiring Neon Auth into our MCP so you can open Cursor, Claude,…
Back when hashtags were a thing, you could search Twitter and find #NoStaging, a community dedicated to banishing the concept of staging from the development world. In the eyes of the #NoStagers, sta…
“I’ve worked with Postgres, Snowflake, and AWS in my professional environment, but for building a side project, I wanted something easier to set up. It hardly took me 10 minutes to understand how to…
Identity is one of those things that sits quietly at the center of most applications. You notice it more as your system grows. It affects permissions, data ownership, multi-tenancy, audit logs, and a…
Today we’re launching a major overhaul of Neon Auth, using Better Auth as the foundation and integrated deeply into the Neon platform. All authentication data is now stored directly in your Neon data…
Branching is one of the most loved features by Neon users (they create ≈500k branches per day on our platform). But because branching is still a relatively new concept for databases, it can take a mo…
Kiro just announced powers at re:Invent, a new way for developers to access a curated set of tools (each packaged with domain knowledge and best practices) directly from the IDE. Neon is one of the f…
At Neon, we run hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases as ephemeral Kubernetes pods. Because of our scale-to-zero feature, every time a user connects to their database, there’s a chance that we…
Over the past few weeks, you might’ve noticed something in our changelog: we’ve been steadily increasing the number of projects included in Neon’s Free Plan. Why are we doing this? Why now? We’ve rea…
Every developer has their own workflow for promoting database changes from development to production, but this becomes an especially tricky problem in certain applications – for example, codegen plat…
“We didn’t want to spend unnecessary time writing CRUD logic or maintaining a backend. We just connected Better Auth and the Data API and started building. The best part: every Neon branch gets its o…
MCPs are powerful abstractions, but that power also means risk. A misconfigured or overly permissive MCP server can expose sensitive data, execute unintended actions, and simply ruin your day. We mai…
“Using Neon with Neon Auth just made everything simpler. Our database and auth live in the same place, and it’s the kind of backend you forget it exists. That’s exactly how it should be” Gabriel Tuml…
Good news for Neon users on Vercel. We’ve shipped a few highly requested updates to the integration, plus a round of behind-the-scenes reliability and observability upgrades. Automatic Branch Cleanup…
If you’ve got real data, you’ve got a real problem. And that problem has a name – PII. Suppose your production database contains names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers. In fintech, you might als…