SERVERLESS

Neon's branching model, serverless driver, and scale-to-zero autoscaling make it one of the most practical Postgres hosts for teams building AI agents and preview-heavy apps. Here is what you need to know before committing.

Serverless Postgres with branching. Free tier, instant database branches per PR, autoscaling compute, and scale-to-zero. Acquired by Databricks in 2025.

Durable workflows and background jobs for serverless. Step-level retries, scheduling, and event-driven functions.

Type-safe SQL builder and ORM for TypeScript. Zero runtime overhead, honest schema migrations, bring-your-own-DB.

Serverless cloud for AI/ML workloads. Write Python with decorators, Modal handles GPU provisioning and scaling. 2-4s cold starts. Scales to zero. $30/mo free compute.

Deployment platform behind Next.js. Git push to deploy. Edge functions, image optimization, analytics. Free tier is generous.