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Neon vs Temporal

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Neon compared with Temporal
DetailNeonTemporal
What it doesThe backend for apps and agents, built to scale on Lakebase Postgres. Durable Execution Solutions
StageEstablished Not given
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inUS Not given
Pricing modelfreemium freemium
PricingFree 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. Free: $150 credits over 90 days for Temporal Cloud. Pay-as-you-go at $50 per million Actions, with storage at $0.042/GBhr active and $0.00105/GBhr retained. Volume discounts down to $25 per million Actions. Business plan starts at $500/month with 2.5M actions included.
Key features
  • 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
  • Workflow orchestration with durable state capture
What makes it different
  • 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
  • Eliminates boilerplate recovery and reconciliation logic
  • Built on 20+ years of distributed systems expertise from AWS, Microsoft, and Uber
  • Durable by default without manual checkpoint code
  • Workflow execution with visibility and replay
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)84 no change since last check79 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)3737
Citation Flow (Majestic)5654
Referring domains (Majestic)104555437

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