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Drizzle ORM vs Neon
Neon provides a serverless Postgres service; Drizzle is the query builder that can run on it.
Which to pick
Pick Drizzle ORM if you want…
- Type-safe, multi-dialect ORM
- A free, open-source tool
- Integrations with TypeScript, JavaScript or PostgreSQL (on Drizzle ORM's list, not Neon's)
Pick Neon if you want…
- Serverless Postgres with full backend suite
- ORM for serverless Postgres
- Integrations with Better Auth, Databricks or pgBouncer (on Neon's list, not Drizzle ORM's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Drizzle ORM:Drizzle ORM is a lightweight, headless TypeScript ORM for SQL databases.
- Neon:Neon provides a serverless Postgres database with built-in auth, object storage, functions and an AI gateway.
- Best for
- Drizzle ORM:Type-safe, multi-dialect ORM
- Neon:Serverless Postgres with full backend suite
- Who it’s for
- Drizzle ORM:TypeScript/JavaScript developers building server-side apps with SQL databases.
- Neon:Developers building apps or agents that need instant, branchable backends.
- Pricing
- Drizzle ORM:Open source
- Neon:Freemium
- Plans
- Drizzle ORM:—
- Neon:Free $0
- Open source
- Drizzle ORM:Yes, 35,923 GitHub stars
- Neon:—
- Works with
- Drizzle ORM:TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Turso, Neon, Supabase
- Neon:Better Auth, Databricks, pgBouncer
Drizzle ORM features
- Typed query builder. Provides full TypeScript typings for building SQL queries.
- Multi-dialect support. Works with PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Turso, Neon, Supabase and more.
- Migrations kit. CLI tool for generating, pushing and exporting schema migrations.
- Row-Level Security. Built-in APIs to manage RLS roles and policies for PostgreSQL.
- Schema visualizer. Drizzle.run visualizes database schemas directly from code.
- Seed package. drizzle-seed generates deterministic seed data respecting relations.
- Raw SQL execution. Allows running raw SQL strings alongside typed queries.
- Monodriver. Simplified driver setup for quick project start-up.
Neon features
- Serverless Postgres. Lakebase Postgres scales compute and storage independently and auto-scales in real time.
- Managed Auth. Fully-managed Better Auth integration provides free user authentication per database.
- Branchable Storage. S3-compatible object storage and database branches copy-on-write for isolated environments.
- Functions. Serverless functions run close to the database without timeouts.
- AI Gateway. Single API to access frontier and open-source models at cost-based rates.
- Autoscaling & Scale-to-Zero. Compute auto-adjusts to demand and scales to zero when idle, billed per CU-hour.
- High Availability & Read Replicas. Multi-AZ storage and read replicas are included on all plans.
- Extensions Library. Supports Postgres extensions such as pg_vector, PostGIS, TimescaleDB, etc.
Drizzle ORM vs Neon FAQ
Is Drizzle ORM or Neon free?+
Drizzle ORM is free and open source. Neon has a free plan and paid plans.
Is Drizzle ORM or Neon open source?+
Drizzle ORM is open source (drizzle-team/drizzle-orm on GitHub, Apache-2.0 license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Neon.
Do Drizzle ORM and Neon integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Drizzle ORM lists TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, MySQL and 5 more; Neon lists Better Auth, Databricks and pgBouncer.
On DevHunt
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.