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Neon

Neon is a serverless Postgres platform that provides fully managed, scalable PostgreSQL databases optimized for modern cloud and edge application development. Their developer platform offers management APIs, data APIs, authentication services, and serverless drivers for building and automating database-driven workflows.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Neon the way a machine reads it — 82 machine-readable artifacts across 13 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Neon scores 63.0/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 59/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 63.0/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 18.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 59/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Neon

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Neon. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 13

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Neon Data API

The Neon Data API provides a secure, stateless HTTP interface to Neon Postgres databases, allowing developers to access and manage data directly from web browsers, serverless fu...

Neon Serverless Driver

The Neon Serverless Driver is a low-latency JavaScript and TypeScript driver that enables querying Neon Postgres databases from serverless and edge environments over HTTP or Web...

Neon Auth

Neon Auth is a managed authentication service built on Better Auth that connects directly to a Neon Postgres database. It stores authentication data including users, sessions, a...

Neon API Keys API

Manage API keys for authentication. API keys are used to authenticate requests to the Neon API via Bearer token.

Neon Auth API

Manage Neon Auth configuration for branches, including OAuth providers, webhooks, and authentication settings.

Neon Branches API

Manage branches within a project. Branches are copies of your data created using copy-on-write technology for development, testing, and preview environments.

Neon Consumption API

Query consumption metrics for projects and accounts. Available for Scale, Business, and Enterprise plan accounts.

Neon Data API API

Manage Data API configuration for branches, including enabling and disabling the PostgREST-compatible HTTP interface.

Neon Databases API

Manage databases within a branch. A branch can contain multiple databases.

Neon Endpoints API

Manage compute endpoints for branches. Compute endpoints provide the processing resources for database queries. A branch can have one read-write and multiple read-only endpoints.

Neon Operations API

View and manage operations for a project. Operations track the progress and status of actions performed on project resources.

Neon Projects API

Manage Neon projects. A project is the top-level object in the Neon hierarchy containing branches, databases, roles, and compute endpoints.

Neon Roles API

Manage Postgres roles within a branch. Roles control database access and permissions.

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Neon Management API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 9

An agent skill packages the how-to for driving these APIs from an assistant — the prompts, the sequence, the guardrails — so the knowledge to use the API travels with it.

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

claimable-postgres

AGENT SKILL

neon-ai-gateway

AGENT SKILL

neon-functions

AGENT SKILL

neon-object-storage

AGENT SKILL

neon-postgres

AGENT SKILL

neon

AGENT SKILL

score-eval

AGENT SKILL

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Neon Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Neon Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Neon Finops

FINOPS

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Free: 100 CU-hours/project, 0.5 GB storage, 60K MAU
Launch: $0.106/CU-hour, $0.35/GB-month, up to 16 CU autoscale
Scale: $0.222/CU-hour, up to 56 CU fixed, HIPAA/SOC 2
Postgres-compatible (latest versions supported)
Branching for safe schema changes
Bottomless storage (S3-backed)
Compute autoscale to zero
Read replicas
pgvector for embeddings
Neon Auth (Stack Auth integration)
Management API: 700 req/hour/org
Connection pooling built-in (PgBouncer)
Time travel (restore to any point in window)
Private networking (VPC peering) on Scale
IP allow rules on Scale
Acquired by Databricks (Q4 2025)

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Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Neon Auth Webhook Events

Neon Auth webhooks deliver HTTP POST requests when authentication events occur, including OTP delivery, magic link delivery, and user creation. Webhooks can be used to replace b...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Neon Context

0 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Neon API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

Neon API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 30

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

ApiKey

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiKeyCreateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiKeyCreateResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AuthConfig

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AuthConfigUpdate

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Neon Branch

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BranchCreateRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BranchUpdateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConnectionUri

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConsumptionHistoryPerAccount

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConsumptionHistoryPerProject

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConsumptionMetric

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DataApiConfig

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DataApiConfigUpdate

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Database

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DatabaseCreateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DatabaseUpdateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Neon Compute Endpoint

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EndpointCreateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EndpointUpdateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OAuthProvider

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OAuthProviderCreateRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OAuthProviderUpdateRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Neon Operation

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pagination

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Neon Project

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProjectCreateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProjectUpdateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Role

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RoleCreateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Neon Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Neon Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Neon Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Neon Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Neon Agentic Access

46 operations · 26 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

46 operations · 26 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Neon — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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