Best Neon alternatives
Serverless Postgres platform with integrated support for vector embeddings and similarity search.
Last updated November 13, 2026
Top Neon alternatives on usedby: Qdrant, Pinecone, and Weaviate. Neon has 33 public customers on usedby. 13 other tools of the same or a competing category, from other vendors, have public customers.Latest check Nov 13, 2026: 400 of 401 public lines checked. Every public proof counts as a customer, from case studies to job posts. The proof level stays visible: confirmed (a case study, a press release), observed (the vendor’s customer page), signal (a job post, the weakest proof).
Ranked by public customers
Tools of the same or a competing category, from another vendor. Open a row for its customers, sources and facts; shared customers never set the order.
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QdrantHigh-performance vector search at scale62customers62 customers: 1 confirmed, 61 observed.
Customers include HubSpot, Disney, and Microsoft.
Largest industry on usedby: Artificial Intelligence, 21 customers.
No company is listed on both Qdrant and Neon yet.
Free trial or free plan available. Source
Source: qdrant.tech, latest capture Nov 10, 2026.
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PineconeVector database for AI applications59customers59 customers: 16 confirmed, 38 observed, 2 job-post signals.
Customers include Gong, ZoomInfo, and TaskUs.
Largest industry on usedby: Artificial Intelligence, 16 customers.
1 company is listed on both Pinecone and Neon.
Pricing: free plan and paid tiers. Source Free trial or free plan available. Source
Source: pinecone.io, latest capture Nov 11, 2026.
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WeaviateVector database for AI-native apps with semantic search49customers49 customers: 11 confirmed, 37 observed, 1 job-post signal.
Customers include Booking.com, Morningstar, and Delegance.
No company is listed on both Weaviate and Neon yet.
Pricing: free plan and paid tiers. Source Free trial or free plan available. Source
Source: weaviate.io, latest capture Nov 10, 2026.
Simply put, the more internet we scan, the better we can protect our customers
Dr. Hirak Chhatbar, Co-founder and CTO, Loti AI. Source 4
CoveoAI-powered search & relevance to turn data into profitable experiences.47customers47 customers: 39 confirmed, 8 observed.
Customers include Dell, SAP, and Zoom.
No company is listed on both Coveo and Neon yet.
Source: coveo.com, latest capture Nov 12, 2026.
When we piloted Relevance Generative Answering in Concur, it went so well it was shocking
Michelle Lewis-Miller, Head of Digital Experiences and Voice of Customer for SAP Customer Support, SAP. Source 5
AlgoliaAI search and retrieval platform for product discovery, site search and grounded generative AI experiences.23customers23 customers: 21 confirmed, 2 observed.
Customers include Orange, Walgreens, and Ananas Ecommerce.
Largest industry on usedby: Retail, 5 customers.
No company is listed on both Algolia and Neon yet.
Free trial or free plan available. Source
Source: algolia.com, latest capture Nov 7, 2026.
Algolia alleviates a lot of work that we’d have to do manually, and configuring search that otherwise would require a lot of maintenance or the hiring of an engineer
Turk Anwar, Lead Product Manager, Gametime. Source 6
ZillizManaged vector database and Vector Lakebase built on open-source Milvus, from serverless to dedicated clusters.22customers22 customers: 12 confirmed, 10 observed.
Customers include Bosch, Airtable, and Consensus.
Largest industry on usedby: Artificial Intelligence, 7 customers.
1 company is listed on both Zilliz and Neon.
Free trial or free plan available. Source
Source: zilliz.com, latest capture Nov 7, 2026.
Milvus and Zilliz make it practical to power fast semantic retrieval across meeting intelligence workflows.
Rob Williams, Co-Founder & CTO, Plaud. Source 7
turbopuffer21customers21 customers: 10 confirmed, 9 observed.
Customers include Atlassian, fal, and Kepler.
Largest industry on usedby: Artificial Intelligence, 5 customers.
No company is listed on both turbopuffer and Neon yet.
Latest capture across its sources: Nov 12, 2026.
We went from generating insights in 3 minutes to less than 10 seconds, with much better recall.
Maria Vinokurskaya, Founding Engineer, PlayerZero. Source 8
VespaAI search platform combining vector, text and structured search with machine-learned ranking at large scale.20customers20 customers: 4 confirmed, 16 observed.
Customers include Perplexity, DeviantArt, and Gem.
Largest industry on usedby: Artificial Intelligence, 5 customers.
No company is listed on both Vespa and Neon yet.
Latest capture across its sources: Nov 9, 2026.
The ability for users to save image searches is something that would not exist at all if we hadn’t started with Vespa.
Sampo Karjalainen, Co-founder, GEM, Gem. Source 9
LanceDBMultimodal lakehouse and vector database for search, feature engineering and training on AI data.20customers20 customers: 0 confirmed, 20 observed.
Customers include Amazon, Nvidia, and Netflix.
Largest industry on usedby: Artificial Intelligence, 9 customers.
1 company is listed on both LanceDB and Neon.
Source: lancedb.com, latest capture Nov 8, 2026.
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Convex19customers19 customers: 0 confirmed, 18 observed.
Customers include SiteGPT, OpenAI, and Tripadvisor.
Largest industry on usedby: Artificial Intelligence, 4 customers.
No company is listed on both Convex and Neon yet.
Latest capture across its sources: Nov 12, 2026.
Convex was a no brainer for us. We needed a backend that could scale to millions quickly and could enable real-time experiences between two people. This helped Candle create many magic moments and connect people all across the world.
Parth Chopra, Co-Founder and CTO, Candle (YC F24), Candle. Source
More Vector databases & search engines tools on usedby
Same or competing category, from another vendor, after the ranking above: fewer public customers.
Elastic Cloud13 customers
Chroma9 customers
MongoDB Atlas4 customers
For an agent platform, the quality of the knowledge layer determines whether users stay or leave. Pinecone is what lets us store everything a user has ever worked on and retrieve exactly the right piece of it in milliseconds. That's the foundation our entire product is built on.Neon and its top alternatives, side by side
Public customers at every proof level, and what each vendor states on its own pages. “Not checked yet” means usedby has no verified value; the vendor may publish it.
| Tool | Customers | Largest industry | Pricing | Free trial | Security |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neon | 33 | DevTools & Infrastructure | free plan and paid tiers Source | Yes Source | SOC 2 Type II Source |
| Qdrant | 62 | Artificial Intelligence | Not checked yet | Yes Source | SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA Source |
| Pinecone | 59 | Artificial Intelligence | free plan and paid tiers Source | Yes Source | ISO 27001, SOC 2 (type not stated) Source |
| Weaviate | 49 | No clear lead | free plan and paid tiers Source | Yes Source | Weaviate Cloud · SOC 2 Type II Source |
| Coveo | 47 | No clear lead | Not checked yet | Not checked yet | SOC 2 (type not stated), ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and 3 more Source |
| Algolia | 23 | Retail | Not checked yet | Yes Source | SOC 2 Type II, C5 Source |
Best Neon alternative by industry
In the industries where Neon has the most customers, the alternative with the most customers of its own there (at least three).
- DevTools & InfrastructureQdrant4 customersNeon: 8
- Artificial IntelligenceQdrant21 customersNeon: 4
Often used with Neon
Tools of other categories that Neon customers also use. They do another job: they are not alternatives.
ClaudeAI assistants5 shared customers
ResendEmail delivery & templates4 shared customers
AWS BedrockAI inference & GPU cloud3 shared customers
BasetenAI inference & GPU cloud3 shared customers
BraintrustLLM observability & evals3 shared customers
Common RoomProspecting data & signals3 shared customers
Questions about Neon alternatives
What are the best Neon alternatives?
Ranked by their public customers on usedby: Qdrant (62 customers), Pinecone (59 customers), and Weaviate (49 customers). See who uses Qdrant.
Which Neon alternatives offer a free trial?
Qdrant, Pinecone, and Weaviate offer a free trial or a free plan, according to their own pricing pages.
What is the best Neon alternative for DevTools & Infrastructure companies?
Qdrant, with 4 customers in DevTools & Infrastructure on usedby. Neon has 8 there. DevTools & Infrastructure companies on usedby.
What is the best Neon alternative for Artificial Intelligence companies?
Qdrant, with 21 customers in Artificial Intelligence on usedby. Neon has 4 there. Artificial Intelligence companies on usedby.
Which tools are used with Neon?
Companies that use Neon also use Claude (5 shared), Resend (4 shared), AWS Bedrock (3 shared), Baseten (3 shared), Braintrust (3 shared), and Common Room (3 shared). These tools do another job: they are not alternatives.
How does usedby rank Neon alternatives?
Only tools of the same or a competing category, from another vendor, count. They are ranked by their public customers at every proof level, job posts included; a tie goes to the stronger proofs (more confirmed, then more observed). Each tool shows its mix: confirmed (a case study, a press release), observed (the vendor’s customer page), signal (a job post, the weakest proof). Shared customers are shown for information and never set the order. Tools of other categories that the same companies use are listed apart, as tools used with Neon. usedby does not publish departures, so no company is shown switching from Neon to another tool.