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Neon vs TiDB Serverless
Neon offers serverless Postgres, while TiDB provides MySQL compatibility and HTAP analytics.
NeonServerless Postgres
TiDB Serverless🔥🔥🔥 A MySQL compatible serverless database with auto scaling and real-time analysis.Which to pick
Pick Neon if you want…
- Serverless Postgres with full backend suite
- Serverless Postgres
- Integrations with Better Auth, Databricks or pgBouncer (on Neon's list, not TiDB Serverless')
Pick TiDB Serverless if you want…
- Serverless MySQL-compatible analytics
- Open-source code (pingcap/tidb on GitHub, Apache-2.0 license)
- Integrations with MySQL, AWS or Google Cloud (on TiDB Serverless' list, not Neon's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Neon:Neon provides a serverless Postgres database with built-in auth, object storage, functions and an AI gateway.
- TiDB Serverless:TiDB Cloud is a fully managed, MySQL-compatible serverless database with auto-scaling, real-time analytics and pay-as-you-go pricing.
- Best for
- Neon:Serverless Postgres with full backend suite
- TiDB Serverless:Serverless MySQL-compatible analytics
- Who it’s for
- Neon:Developers building apps or agents that need instant, branchable backends.
- TiDB Serverless:Developers and teams building data-intensive apps that need MySQL compatibility and elastic scaling.
- Pricing
- Neon:Freemium
- TiDB Serverless:Freemium
- Plans
- Neon:Free $0
- TiDB Serverless:TiDB Cloud Starter $0/month · TiDB Cloud Essential Preview ≈$20 / day per day · TiDB Cloud Premium Preview $1800 / month per month · TiDB Cloud Dedicated $0.22/hr per hour
- Open source
- Neon:—
- TiDB Serverless:Yes, 40,624 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Neon:Better Auth, Databricks, pgBouncer
- TiDB Serverless:MySQL, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Kubernetes, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka
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.
TiDB Serverless features
- Serverless autoscaling. On-demand compute scales to zero when idle and automatically expands with workload.
- MySQL compatibility. Drop-in compatible with MySQL, enabling easy migration of existing applications.
- Real-time HTAP analytics. Run low-latency analytical queries on billions of rows alongside transactional workloads.
- Multi-cloud deployment. Available in over 30 regions on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and Alibaba Cloud.
- Built-in security. Encryption at rest and in transit, IAM, VPC peering and optional CMEK for enterprise plans.
- Fully managed operations. Automated upgrades, health monitoring, backups and failover handled by PingCAP.
- Free tier storage. Permanent 5 GB storage (25 GiB row + 25 GiB column) and 250 M request units per month at no cost.
- Enterprise resilience. 99.99% availability, multi-zone protection and PCI-DSS/SOC 2 compliance for dedicated clusters.
Neon vs TiDB Serverless FAQ
Is Neon or TiDB Serverless free?+
Neon has a free plan and paid plans. TiDB Serverless has a free plan (TiDB Cloud Starter) and paid plans.
Is Neon or TiDB Serverless open source?+
TiDB Serverless is open source (pingcap/tidb on GitHub, Apache-2.0 license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Neon.
Do Neon and TiDB Serverless integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Neon lists Better Auth, Databricks and pgBouncer; TiDB Serverless lists MySQL, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and 5 more.
On DevHunt
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