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Neon vs Rustable
Neon offers a managed serverless Postgres service, whereas Rustable is a local client.
Which to pick
Pick Neon if you want…
- Serverless Postgres with full backend suite
- Serverless Postgres hosting
Pick Rustable if you want…
- Native Rust-based DB client
- A free, open-source tool
Side by side
- What it is
- Neon:Neon provides a serverless Postgres database with built-in auth, object storage, functions and an AI gateway.
- Rustable:Rustable is an open-source, native database client built in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly.
- Best for
- Neon:Serverless Postgres with full backend suite
- Rustable:Native Rust-based DB client
- Who it’s for
- Neon:Developers building apps or agents that need instant, branchable backends.
- Rustable:Developers who need a fast, lightweight desktop client for SQL and Redis databases.
- Pricing
- Neon:Freemium
- Rustable:Open source
- Plans
- Neon:Free $0
- Rustable:—
- Open source
- Neon:—
- Rustable:Yes, 4 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Neon:Better Auth, Databricks, pgBouncer
- Rustable:—
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.
Rustable features
- Multi-DB support. Connect to PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB and Redis from one workspace.
- SSH tunnels. Built-in SSH tunneling for secure remote connections (macOS/Linux).
- GPU UI. egui-powered UI renders at monitor refresh rate for smooth scrolling and resizing.
- Virtualized rows. Rows are virtualized and work is off the UI thread for reduced latency.
- Saved queries. Create, edit and review queries before committing changes.
- Cross-platform binaries. Native executables for macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows x64 and Linux x64.
Neon vs Rustable FAQ
Is Neon or Rustable free?+
Neon has a free plan and paid plans. Rustable is free and open source.
Is Neon or Rustable open source?+
Rustable is open source (RustableApp/Rustable on GitHub, MIT license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Neon.
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