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Get Started with Neon

Serverless Postgres with branching and scale-to-zero

Getting Started

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Best For

Startups and solo developers who want serverless Postgres with a generous free tier and instant database branching for staging environments

Teams using Vercel or Next.js who need a modern Postgres backend that scales to zero

Indie developers building MVPs who need to minimize database costs with pay-per-use pricing

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