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Neon
Named in 48 of 100 AI answers across 2 categories in September 2026. Best position: Databases for startups, 90% answer share, ranked #3, named first in 22%.
90%
Best share Databases for startups
What Neon is
Neon provides Postgres with pgvector already installed. It is for teams and developers that want to store vectors and run vector search within a Postgres database.
Users enable pgvector with a SQL extension command, then store vectors in Postgres for search. Neon supports nearest-neighbour search through HNSW indexes, allowing searches across stored vectors without moving them to a separate vector database.
By category
First edition
| Category | Rank | Answer share | Named first | Models | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Databases for startupsStartup stack | #3 of 17 | 22% | GPT-5.6 Sol, ChatGPT, GPT-5.6 Luna, Claude Opus 5, Claude, Claude Fable 5, Gemini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity, Sonar Reasoning Pro | new | |
| Vector databasesAI infra | #14 of 16 | 0% | GPT-5.6 Luna, Gemini | new |
What the models said
“Choose Neon if you want PostgreSQL with a strong serverless/free-tier style setup and cost-sensitive early experimentation.”
“Neon's branching is great for CI but connection limits and per-branch costs get awkward with thousands of tenant databases.”
“If you only want a database without bundled auth/storage and care about serverless scaling and branching, Neon is the leading alternative.”
“Choose Neon if you have a custom backend and want the absolute best developer experience on Postgres.”
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