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Comparison

CockroachDB Cloud vs Neon

Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.

Comparison space

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Platform

Delivery
Managed
Managed
Database compatibility
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Services
Authentication
Authentication
Functions
Functions
Managed Databases
Managed Databases
Object Storage
Object Storage
Database capabilities
Automated Backups
Automated Backups
Automatic Failover
Automatic Failover
Compute Autoscaling
Compute Autoscaling
Database Branching
Database Branching
Point-in-Time Recovery
Point-in-Time Recovery
Read Replicas
Read Replicas
Scale to Zero
Scale to Zero
Storage Autoscaling
Storage Autoscaling

Pricing

Compute billing
Plan based CockroachDB Cloud Plans
Plan based Neon Plans
Storage
  • Storage — $0.50 · per GiB-month beyond the included allowance
  • Storage — $0.35 · per GB-month
I/O / requests
  • Request Units — ~$0.20 · per additional million RUs
Unknown
Free entry / commitment
Recurring free allowances No card required
Recurring free allowances No card required

Infrastructure & Availability

Infrastructure provider
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Amazon Web Services
Execution & placement
  • Scope: Regional
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Scope: Regional

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Access Control
Organization and cluster roles CockroachDB Cloud organizations
Organization and project roles
Single Sign-On
SAML, OIDC, and SCIM provisioning Cloud Organization SSO
Unknown
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Unknown
Account 2FA and organization-wide enforcement
Encryption & secrets
Encryption at Rest
Cloud disk encryption; customer-managed keys available CMEK on Advanced; supported clouds and regions only
Unknown
Encryption in Transit
TLS 1.2+ at the perimeter; TLS 1.3 for client and inter-node traffic
Unknown
Encryption
Unknown
TLS 1.2+ in transit; AES-256 at rest
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
PrivateLink or VPC peering Standard and Advanced plans
AWS PrivateLink Scale plan
IP Allow List
Basic and higher plans
Unknown
Network Isolation
Unknown
Logical customer-data segregation
Assurances & programs
HIPAA
HIPAA-ready Advanced plan; annual assessment and signed BAA required
HIPAA capability Scale plan; BAA required
SOC Reports
SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 CockroachDB Cloud managed services
SOC 2 Type II