What's new with the Neon backend - Neon

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A roundup of what we've shipped lately across Lakebase Postgres, Managed Better Auth, Functions, Object Storage, AI Gateway, and Realtime
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Neon now includes a complete set of backend primitives - the database (Lakebase Postgres), Managed Better Auth, Functions, Object Storage, AI Gateway, and we just launched Realtime in beta. We ship updates to all of them every week, which we list in our changelog - this post rounds up a few of the recent ones worth knowing about.
Lakebase Postgres is the Neon database: serverless Postgres that scales and branches with your app, built on object storage and the WAL. It takes you from your first users to the Fortune 500, with coding agents as a first-class interface.
The Neon Free Plan now includes 1 GB of Postgres storage per project, up from 0.5 GB.
Stripe Data Pipeline can now stream Stripe data straight into Lakebase Postgres, in public preview. Stripe backfills your existing data and keeps it in sync, so checking whether a user has an active subscription is a join instead of an API call.
Lakebase Search is a set of extensions to run scalable vector, keyword, and hybrid search inside Lakebase Postgres.
Two Lakebase Search updates shipped recently:
Neon Functions are long-running serverless functions right next to your database. You can use them in the Free plan, with 10 active Capacity-Hours, 400 waiting Capacity-Hours, and 1 million invocations per project each month.
Two pieces we shipped in the last few weeks make it easier to build MCPs on Neon:
You can start from the template:
neon functions new scaffolds a function from a template in the Function Registry. It includes ready-to-use code to help you build things like
To list all templates, run
All Neon users can add Managed Better Auth to their projects - an auth service built on Better Auth that branches with your database and lives right next to your data.
Managed Better Auth can now act as an OAuth 2.1 authorization server, so your users can sign in to your MCP server, API, or other apps with their existing accounts. The @neon/oauth SDK (beta) verifies access tokens and serves the resource metadata for an MCP server, which is how the MCP server pattern in the Functions section works.
Apple and Microsoft Entra ID are now OAuth providers, alongside Google, GitHub, and Vercel. Add them with your own app credentials from your project's Better Auth settings, the Neon CLI, or the Neon API.
Managed Better Auth moved to Better Auth 1.7 and existing apps kept working without changes. When Better Auth published a security release on November 3, we rolled out the fixed version (1.7.16) server-side in every region. Customers didn't need to upgrade an SDK or rotate a secret.
You can call your AI models right from Neon via our AI Gateway, served with top-performance by Databricks Foundation APIs.
We keep adding models to the catalog, with new ones landing almost every week - some of the recent additions:
Every Neon user can now buy AI Gateway credits, starting at $5, including on the Free plan. Once you add credits, you can call every model in the catalog at the same per-token price you'd pay using the labs' own APIs.
Neon Object Storage gives you S3-compatible files that branch with your database, the same way you already branch Postgres.
Reset from parent now rolls back a branch's Object Storage along with its Postgres data. Any uploads, overwrites, and deletes made on the branch are discarded, and its buckets return to the parent's current state. If a preview environment or an agent run filled a branch with test files, one reset puts both the data and the files back where they started.
The fastest way to try any of this is through your coding agent. This prompt installs the Neon CLI, signs you in, and adds Neon's agent skills and MCP server:
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