Neon Serverless Driver
PostgreSQL driver optimized for serverless environments from Neon.
Databases, ORMs and clients npm MIT
Used in agent projects
126
1.0% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in databases, orms and clients
#9 of 30
by use in those projects
Downloads
4.5M
npm, last 7 days, @neondatabase/serverless
GitHub stars
552
last push Oct 1, 2026
How Neon Serverless Driver is used
Neon Serverless Driver is a dependency in 126 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.0%), #9 of 30 in databases, orms and clients. The most used alternative there is Prisma. Projects that use it most often also use Lucide React (73.8%), Drizzle ORM (65.1%), Tailwind Merge (65.1%).
Often used with Neon Serverless Driver
| Lucide React | 73.8% of Neon Serverless Driver projects · 3.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| Drizzle ORM | 65.1% of Neon Serverless Driver projects · 25.6× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 65.1% of Neon Serverless Driver projects · 3.9× more than average |
| Drizzle Kit | 62.7% of Neon Serverless Driver projects · 25.8× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 61.9% of Neon Serverless Driver projects · 4.4× more than average |
| clsx | 65.1% of Neon Serverless Driver projects · 3.7× more than average |
| Zod | 62.7% of Neon Serverless Driver projects · 3.7× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 85.7% of Neon Serverless Driver projects · 2.5× more than average |
By coding agent
| Cursor | 2.0% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 1.2% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 1.0% of projects set up for it |
| Devin Desktop | 3.6% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.8% of projects set up for it |
| OpenCode | 2.2% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Neon Serverless Driver as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install @neondatabase/serverless |
|---|---|
| Packages counted | @neondatabase/serverless, @neondatabase/auth, @neondatabase/mcp-server-neon, @neondatabase/api-client, @neondatabase/neon-js |
| Main stacks | Next.js (72), TypeScript / JavaScript (51), Python (2), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | inboundemail/inbound, nirholas/three.ws, amelioro/ameliorate, andrelandgraf/aileen, BabylonSocial/babylon |
Alternatives to Neon Serverless Driver
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prisma npm Modern ORM with intuitive schema, migrations, and type-safe database queries. |
381 (3.0%) | 19M | 23 | Apache-2.0 |
| pg npm PostgreSQL client for Node.js with pure JavaScript and libpq API compatibility. |
372 (2.9%) | 63.4M | 13.2K | MIT |
| Drizzle ORM npm TypeScript ORM for SQL databases with type safety and zero-runtime overhead. |
323 (2.5%) | 27.2M | 36K | Apache-2.0 |
| Drizzle Kit npm CLI migration tool for Drizzle ORM that auto-generates SQL migrations intelligently. |
309 (2.4%) | 22.3M | 36K | MIT |
| SQLAlchemy pypi Python SQL toolkit and object-relational mapper for database abstraction. |
250 (2.0%) | 85.7M | 12.2K | — |
| better-sqlite3 npm Fastest and simplest SQLite library for Node.js with synchronous API. |
162 (1.3%) | 11.3M | 7,513 | MIT |
| psycopg2 pypi Popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python with full database access and query execution. |
143 (1.1%) | 50.7M | 3,656 | LGPL with exceptions |
| Mongoose npm MongoDB object modeling library providing schema validation and query building. |
142 (1.1%) | 6.6M | 27.5K | MIT |