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Neon

Serverless Postgres with branching, autoscaling, and an AI-optimized architecture

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Company research

Research as of
Metric
+33.7%npm dependents
Measured values
377 vs 282Jul 12 vs Apr 13
Sources
2 sourcesLibraries.io API + The New York Times · as of July 13, 2026
Cited source
The New York TimesNeon Buys ‘Artificial,’ a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It · Jun 30

With The New York Times reporting "Neon Buys ‘Artificial,’ a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It" as background, Neon's npm dependents increased 33.7% over the last 90 days, with Libraries.io data through Jul 12.

What this does not prove: Does not show install volume, runtime use, paid use, customer count, revenue, market share, product quality, or code that consumes the package without declaring it in npm metadata.

Metric receipt (2 sources)

Measured public metric

  • Libraries.io API: Neon npm dependents · July 12, 2026

Cited source

  • The New York Times: Neon Buys ‘Artificial,’ a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It · June 30, 2026
Metric
npm dependents
Observed window
Last 90 days (2026-04-13 to 2026-07-12)
Comparison
Compared with the prior reading
Start value
282 on 2026-04-13
End value
377 on 2026-07-12
Calculation
((377 - 282) / 282) * 100 = +33.7%
Metric receipt
Retained AI-Buzz metric receipt; not externally reproducible from a single public URL.
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Company profile

What is Neon?

Neon is an open-source serverless Postgres platform that separates storage and compute, enabling features like database branching, autoscaling to zero, and instant provisioning. It is widely adopted in AI applications for its serverless driver and is the default database for Vercel Postgres.

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Key metric

Package downloads (30d)

10.8M/30d

Tracked package: npm @neondatabase/serverless

▲ +8%

Additional metrics

3 metrics

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Dependent projects

377

Projects depending on tracked package: npm @neondatabase/serverless

Metric

GitHub stars

22.5K

Main repository stars

Metric

Hacker News

61/30d

Position #5 in category discussion

Repository health

Maintenance data from the main open-source repository.

Releases (30d)
0

Repository usage

Public repositories and source files importing packages tied to Neon.

Repos importing
1950%

About Neon

Neon is an open-source serverless Postgres platform that separates storage and compute, enabling features like database branching, autoscaling to zero, and instant provisioning. It is widely adopted in AI applications for its serverless driver and is the default database for Vercel Postgres.

FoundersStas Kelvich, Konstantin Osipov, Heikki Linnakangas

Tracked packages (1)

1 npm

@neondatabase/serverless

npmMain npm package

@neondatabase/serverless

Serverless Postgres with branching, autoscaling, and an AI-optimized architecture