Small business▼−3Since September 2026: 15% → 12%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
12%from 15% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 3 → 5 of 70
2 categories · RankedNeon
78Judge labels
13First choices
7Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
10% in Managed databases for small business buyers
Rank 4 of 82 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 23 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Neon →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 74
10%42 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market4 of 82
10%23 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise85 of 92
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
In managed databases · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Neon for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed relational databases | Data platform | 10% | 4 of 82 | 0% | 23 | accepted challenger | ▲+4Since September 2026: 6% → 10%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| NoSQL databases | Data platform | 0% | 44 of 73 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by MongoDB at 74% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Neon held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Managed databases · by segment
Mid-market▲+4Since September 2026: 6% → 10%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
10%from 6% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 5 → 4 of 72
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 70 → 74 of 81
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed databases | 6% | 10% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 6% → 10%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 4 of 82 |
| NoSQL | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 44 of 73, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Neon across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Neon across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct12 labelsNone
Paraphrase8 labels2
Comparative13 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained28 labels10
Scale-constrained9 labels1
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative78 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 16 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Supabase or Neon (both serverless PostgreSQL) stand out as the best managed relational database services” Grok 4.20 · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice
“or Neon if you have very sporadic usage patterns and want to minimize costs” Kimi K2 · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice
“For a budget-conscious company using PostgreSQL, I'd start with Neon” GPT-6 Luna · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice
“starting with Neon is excellent for development and early scale” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · first choice
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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Neon, over the 78 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Neon was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Neon, over the 78 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Neon was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Neon. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 68 of the 78 answers that named Neon and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
g2.com36
digitalocean.com35
it-ai-index.com35
aws.amazon.com25
northflank.com22
sourceforge.net20
tech-insider.org19
cloud.google.com16
dev.to14
makerkit.dev13
235 of the 235 domain citations in answers naming Neon came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
neon.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Neon takes 10% of first choices and Amazon RDS takes 45%.ShowHide
Search and answers
neon.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Neon takes 10% of first choices and Amazon RDS takes 45%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “managed relational database service”
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not in the top ten
Position for “managed relational database services”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 135,000 a month (“neon”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 66,147 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 73,379 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 9,225 · 2,003 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 6,612
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess1 ads · 1 text · 1 shown in the last 30 days
First shown May 2024, as NEON INC., verified.
On Google's pages: 1
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
10%
rank 4 of 82 in managed databases
Segment leader
45%
Amazon RDS
- First choices
- 13 across its categories
- Named in
- 78 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 68 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on neon.com
2,459
subdomains included
Content
870
counted in the table below
Documentation
1,012
Product · Integration
17 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 486 | 36 | 2026-09-28 | Object storage, ETL | |
| Report or ebook | 366 | undated | Feature flags, Object storage | ||
| Comparison | 12 | 0 | 2026-01-23 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 0 | 2023-11-22 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | 0 | 2025-01-29 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Inside branch based restores in lakebase postgres blog
- 2026-09-24Electrifying Neon: building the realtime backend - Neon blog
- 2026-09-22When a file is uploaded, run the job on Neon - Neon blog
- 2026-09-21Custom domains for neon functions blog
- 2026-09-21Your Neon Functions can now run on a schedule - Neon blog
- 2026-09-17The Neon backend is GA: a complete set of primitives so agents can build - Neon blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page neon.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Neon
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Neon; a claim can dispute any of them.
Neon (Serverless PostgreSQL) 2
Follow Neon
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Neon is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Neon is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The backend for apps and agents. Build with Lakebase Postgres, Auth, Functions, Storage, and an AI Gateway: instant, branchable, serverless.
- For
- developers, agents
- Price stated
- Usage-based pricing neon.com
- Starting price
- 0 neon.com
- Free plan or trial
- Powerful Free Tier neon.com
- Certifications
- CCPAGDPRISO 27001ISO 27701SOC 2HIPAAISO/IEC 27001ISO/IEC 27701
- Customers named
- EncoreAirplaneSnapletHasuraVercelWunderGraphDynaboardBunnyshell
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What Neon's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: neon.com, neon.com/pricing, trust.neon.com, neon.com/platforms, neon.com/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Neon's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Neon, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Neon by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Neon is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Neon, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.