2 categories · RankedNeon
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed relational databases | Data platform | 6% | 5 of 73 | 21% | 24 | accepted challenger |
| Data warehouses | Data platform | 0% | 32 of 41 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Snowflake at 47% |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“For the lowest cost, Neon or Railway Postgres are the best choices.” Mistral Small · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice
“My recommendation: Start with Neon if you just need a database” Kimi K2 · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice
“Best for Pure PostgreSQL: Neon ... It features "Scale to Zero."” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice
“The Modern Postgres Platforms (Neon, Supabase, Tembo): Pros: Incredible developer experience, serverless autoscaling, database branching” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · scale prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Niche vendors that have recently been acquired (e.g., Neon, Tabular) if you value long-term roadmap independence.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Data warehouses · negative prompt · soft negative
“But for a mid-sized B2B company, I'd still usually choose a mainstream managed Postgres service first” GPT-5.4 mini · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“usually better fits for smaller teams or product-led startups than a typical B2B ops environment” Perplexity Sonar · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Why be cautious: While innovative, Neon's usage-based pricing can be unpredictable” Mistral Small · Managed databases · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 46 of the 70 answers that named Neon and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
192 of the 192 domain citations in answers naming Neon came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Neon
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