Head to head
Neon vs Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
54/100Higher score | 50/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #6 | #4 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 78 | 72 |
| AI Authority | 42 | 25 |
| Web Authority | 25 | 35 |
| Expert Assessment | 64 | 67 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Launch: no monthly minimum — compute $0.106/CU-hour, storage $0.35/GB-month · free tier: Free plan is permanent, no credit card: 100 projects, 10 branches/project, 100 CU-hours/project, autoscaling to 2 CU (8 GB RAM), scale to zero after 5 min, 0.5 GB storage/project, 6-hour history window, 1 manual snapshot, 5 GB egress, up to 60k Auth MAU, community support; hitting any monthly limit suspends compute until next billing month | Not published — vCore price cells render client-side per region/currency and resolved to placeholders when retrieved · free tier: With an Azure free account: up to 750 hours of Burstable compute and 32 GB of storage per month for 12 months at no cost |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (pay-as-you-go, metered hourly) with a permanent free tier | Usage-based (per compute SKU plus storage; pay-as-you-go, savings plan, or 1/3-year reservations) |
| Best for | Teams running many short-lived, mostly-idle Postgres databases — preview environments, per-PR branches, per-customer sandboxes — and startups or AI/agent builders with spiky load who want Postgres plus pgvector with no seat costs and no monthly minimum. | Organisations already standardised on Azure identity, networking and enterprise agreements that need managed PostgreSQL with zone-redundant HA, in-database vector search, or Azure Government regions, and that can commit to reservations or a savings plan for predictable workloads. |
| Avoid if | You run latency-critical low-traffic production apps (cold starts), steady-state high-utilisation workloads where there is no idle to reclaim at $0.222/CU-hour, need compliance or an SLA below the Scale tier, need more than 56 CU / 224 GB RAM, or must commit to a hard fixed monthly budget. | You need a firm published monthly price before procurement, may need to shrink storage after right-sizing, cannot tolerate platform-initiated maintenance windows, or are not otherwise on Azure — outside the ecosystem the differentiators shrink. |
| Markets | Startups, SMB, Developers, Agencies, Enterprise (Scale plan), AI/agent platforms | SMB, Enterprise, Public Sector, Startups |
| Founded | 2021 | — |
| Headquarters | Menlo Park, California, United States | Redmond, Washington, USA |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.