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Convex vs Neon

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Convex compared with Neon
DetailConvexNeon
What it doesAll gas, no breakages The backend for apps and agents, built to scale on Lakebase Postgres.
StageGrowing Established
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inUS US
Pricing modelNot given freemium
PricingFree & Starter plan with pay-as-you-go pricing. Professional plan at $25 per developer per month. Business & Enterprise plan with $2,500 monthly minimum. Free plan includes 0.5 GB database storage, 1 GB file storage, 1M function calls. Professional plan includes 50 GB database storage, 100 GB file s Free plan with 100 projects, 100 CU-hours monthly per project, 1 GB storage per project. Launch plan starts at $0.106 per CU-hour and $0.35 per GB-month. Scale plan at $0.222 per CU-hour and $0.35 per GB-month. No monthly minimum fees.
Key features
  • File storage
  • Serverless Postgres database that scales and branches
  • Fully-managed authentication built on Better Auth
  • S3-compatible object storage that branches
  • Serverless functions without timeouts
  • AI Gateway for frontier and open-source models
  • Automatic autoscaling of compute
  • Instant restore for point-in-time recovery
  • Vector, keyword, and hybrid search
  • Connection pooling with pgBouncer
  • Read replicas for query offloading
What makes it different
  • ACID transactions preventing concurrent write corruption
  • End-to-end type safety in TypeScript
  • Automatic scaling that handles viral growth
  • Built-in real-time sync across all data
  • Zero glue code architecture
  • Storage-compute separation for instant operations and scale without compromise
  • Branch environments like pull requests for faster development workflows
  • Scales to zero when idle, paying only for resources actually used
  • Complete backend platform with database, auth, storage, functions and AI gateway integrated
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)79 no change since last check84 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)3437
Citation Flow (Majestic)5456
Referring domains (Majestic)423510455

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