Neon Serverless Postgres

Neon is a serverless Postgres platform that separates compute and storage to offer autoscaling, branching, instant restore, and scale-to-zero. It's fully compatible with Postgres and works with any language, framework, or ORM that supports Postgres.

Neon Documentation

Always reference the Neon documentation before making Neon-related claims. The documentation is the source of truth for all Neon-related information.

Below you'll find a list of resources organized by area of concern. This is meant to support you find the right documentation pages to fetch and add a bit of additonal context.

You can use the curl commands to fetch the documentation page as markdown:

Documentation:

Get list of all Neon docs

curl https://neon.tech/llms.txt

Fetch any doc page as markdown

curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://neon.tech/docs/<path>

Don't guess docs pages. Use the llms.txt index to find the relevant URL or follow the links in the resources below.

Overview of Resources

Reference the appropriate resource file based on the user's needs:

Core Guides

Area Resource When to Use

What is Neon references/what-is-neon.md

Understanding Neon concepts, architecture, core resources

Referencing Docs references/referencing-docs.md

Looking up official documentation, verifying information

Features references/features.md

Branching, autoscaling, scale-to-zero, instant restore

Getting Started references/getting-started.md

Setting up a project, connection strings, dependencies, schema

Connection Methods references/connection-methods.md

Choosing drivers based on platform and runtime

Developer Tools references/devtools.md

VSCode extension, MCP server, Neon CLI (neon init )

Database Drivers & ORMs

HTTP/WebSocket queries for serverless/edge functions.

Area Resource When to Use

Serverless Driver references/neon-serverless.md

@neondatabase/serverless

• HTTP/WebSocket queries

Drizzle ORM references/neon-drizzle.md

Drizzle ORM integration with Neon

Auth & Data API SDKs

Authentication and PostgREST-style data API for Neon.

Area Resource When to Use

Neon Auth references/neon-auth.md

@neondatabase/auth

• Authentication only

Neon JS SDK references/neon-js.md

@neondatabase/neon-js

• Auth + Data API (PostgREST-style queries)

Neon Platform API & CLI

Managing Neon resources programmatically via REST API, SDKs, or CLI.

Area Resource When to Use

Platform API Overview references/neon-platform-api.md

Managing Neon resources via REST API

Neon CLI references/neon-cli.md

Terminal workflows, scripts, CI/CD pipelines

TypeScript SDK references/neon-typescript-sdk.md

@neondatabase/api-client

Python SDK references/neon-python-sdk.md

neon-api package