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Anthropic API vs Neon

API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning
vs. Serverless Postgres with branching and bottomless storage

Anthropic website ↗Neon website ↗

Pricing tiers

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

Neon

Free
100 projects, 0.5 GB storage + 100 CU-hours each. Great for prototypes and preview envs.
Free
Launch
Usage-based, no minimum. Small production workloads. $0.35/GB-month storage, $0.106/CU-hour.
$0 base (usage-based)
Scale
Usage-based, higher compute tier + faster instances ($0.222/CU-hour). Up to 30-day PITR, 1,000 projects.
$0 base (usage-based)
Business
Usage-based with 99.95% SLA, HIPAA available. Private networking $0.01/GB.
$0 base (usage-based)
Neon website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing opus-4-7 on Anthropic API vs free on Neon.

MetricAnthropic APINeon
branches per project—10 branches
cu hours per project—100 CU-hours/month
discount batch50 % off—
egress gb month—5 GB/month
pitr retention hours—6 hours
projects—100 projects
storage gb per project—0.5 GB
team members—3 users

Features

Anthropic API · 0 features

    Neon · 14 features

    • Autoscaling — Compute scales CPU + memory between min and max CU in seconds based on load.
    • Branching — Git-like DB branches: copy-on-write snapshots of data + schema. Instant, cheap. …
    • Data API (REST) — PostgREST-compatible REST endpoint auto-generated from your schema. Uses Postgre…
    • IP Allowlist — Restrict DB access to specific CIDRs. Launch+.
    • Launchpad — One-click create-a-database link that can be embedded in OSS repos (DATABASE_URL…
    • Logical Replication — Publish changes to Snowflake, BigQuery, Kafka, or other Postgres. Subscribe from…
    • Monitoring — Built-in dashboards for CPU/RAM/connections/slow queries. Prometheus export on B…
    • Neon Auth — Stack Auth integrated: users table auto-synced into your Postgres (public.users_…
    • Point-in-Time Restore — Restore DB to any moment in the retention window (6h free → 30d Scale) via branc…
    • Private Networking — AWS PrivateLink / VPC peering. Business plan.
    • Read Replicas — Create a read-only compute endpoint on the same branch. Zero replication lag (re…
    • Scale to Zero — Compute suspends when idle — no charge for compute while paused. Cold-start ~300…
    • Schema Diff — Compare schema between branches — build PR checks and preview migrations safely.
    • SQL over HTTP — Serverless driver lets you query Postgres over HTTPS — works in edge runtimes (V…

    Developer interfaces

    KindAnthropic APINeon
    CLIClaude Code CLINeon CLI
    SDKGo SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)@neondatabase/serverless
    RESTAWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)Management / Control Plane API, Neon Data API (REST), SQL over HTTP
    MCP—Neon MCP Server
    OTHER—Postgres Wire Protocol
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