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Comparison

Neon vs PlanetScale

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

Comparison space

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Platform

Delivery
BYOC
BYOC
Managed
Managed
Database compatibility
MySQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Vitess
Vitess
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 Neon Plans
Instance based Cluster SKUs
Storage
  • Storage — $0.35 · per GB-month
  • Included storage — $0 · first 10 GB storage per cluster
  • Storage overage — $0.50 · per GB-month
Free entry / commitment
Recurring free allowances No card required
Self-service No sales interaction required.

Infrastructure & Availability

Infrastructure provider
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud Platform
Execution & placement
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Scope: Regional
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Scope: Regional
Availability footprint
Unknown
  • Managed cloud: 19 Regions

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Account 2FA and organization-wide enforcement
TOTP PlanetScale accounts
Access Control
Organization and project roles
Unknown
Single Sign-On
Unknown
SAML Base add-on; included with Enterprise
Encryption & secrets
Encryption
TLS 1.2+ in transit; AES-256 at rest
Unknown
Encryption at Rest
Unknown
All plans
Encryption in Transit
Unknown
TLS database connections All plans
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
AWS PrivateLink Scale plan
Private database connectivity Deployment support applies
Network Isolation
Logical customer-data segregation
Unknown
IP Allow List
Unknown
Database connections
Assurances & programs
HIPAA
HIPAA capability Scale plan; BAA required
Eligible use Qualifying customers; signed BAA and customer safeguards required
SOC Reports
SOC 2 Type II
SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II PlanetScale managed service