No-code apps and databases
Neon alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
neondatabase/neonthe vendor’s own source★22,767 GitHub starsApache-2.0 licenceNeon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.Open on GitHub ↗nhost/nhost★9,270 GitHub starsMIT licenceOpen-source backend providing Postgres, Auth, Storage, GraphQL, and serverless functions.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Neon's production autoscaling and CU-hour billing plumbing
- Copy-on-write branching and instant restore storage optimizations
- Integrated Managed Better Auth maintained and one-click install
- Multi-AZ storage, HA, and SLA guarantees
- Built-in AI Gateway, Functions, and S3-compatible branching storage as managed services
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Neon, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.