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title: 'Embedded Postgres for Platforms'
subtitle: Provision dedicated Postgres databases for your users — instantly, affordably, and at scale
subtitle: >-
Provision dedicated Postgres databases for your users: instantly,
affordably, and at scale
updatedOn: '2025-06-17T09:00:00.000Z'
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Neon makes it easy to embed Postgres into your platform with one-second provisioning, autoscaling, and scale-to-zero—so each user gets an isolated database without the overhead. Databases are provisioned via API and fully integrated into your product, with no Neon signup or setup required.
Neon makes it easy to embed Lakebase Postgres into your platform with one-second provisioning, autoscaling, and scale-to-zero, so each user gets an isolated database without the overhead. Databases are provisioned via API and fully integrated into your product, with no Neon signup or setup required.

![Partners](/images/pages/platforms/partners.jpg)

<CTA title="" description="Our Solutions Engineers have helped platforms like yours embed Postgres at scale. Tell us about your use case—we’ll help you design the right approach." buttonText="Meet with us" buttonUrl="/contact-sales" />
<CTA title="" description="Our Solutions Engineers have helped platforms like yours embed Lakebase Postgres at scale. Tell us about your use case. We’ll help you design the right approach." buttonText="Meet with us" buttonUrl="/contact-sales" />

## Uniquely built to scale Postgres fleets

Neon is the best Postgres provider for deploying one-database-per-user fleets at scale. **You don’t need a DevOps team to manage a large Neon fleet** – the Neon API lets you track usage, enforce limits, and scale programmatically. With pay-per-use pricing and automatic scale-to-zero, [you’ll spend a fraction of what you'd pay on AWS](/cost-fleets). What you get:
Neon is built for deploying one-database-per-user fleets of Lakebase Postgres at scale. **You don’t need a DevOps team to manage a large Neon fleet** – the Neon API lets you track usage, enforce limits, and scale programmatically. With pay-per-use pricing and automatic scale-to-zero, [you’ll spend a fraction of what you'd pay on AWS](/cost-fleets). What you get:

- Dedicated connection strings for every user or project - every user gets their own secure, isolated Postgres [project](/docs/manage/projects)
- High connection capacity - pooled endpoints support up to 10,000 connections
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## With instant provisioning and scale-to-zero

Neon databases provision in less than a second and automatically suspend when idle, with no compute cost until the next query. **You can offer every user their own Postgres database without incurring the cost of idle infrastructure.** This is what makes Neon ideal for platforms: dedicated Postgres per user, but with shared-infrastructure economics.
Lakebase Postgres databases on Neon provision in less than a second and automatically suspend when idle, with no compute cost until the next query. **You can offer every user their own Postgres database without incurring the cost of idle infrastructure.** That is what the lakebase architecture makes possible for platforms: dedicated Postgres per user, with shared-infrastructure economics.

- Provisioning time: ~1 second
- Suspend latency: configurable (default is 5 min)
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## API-first management

Neon’s API is purpose-built to help platforms manage large fleets of Postgres databases with minimal engineering effort. **We’ve continuously improved our API in collaboration with 20+ partners, each pushing the boundaries of scale and automation**. Via the Neon API, you can:
Neon’s API is purpose-built to help platforms manage large fleets of Lakebase Postgres databases with minimal engineering effort. **We’ve continuously improved our API in collaboration with 20+ partners, each pushing the boundaries of scale and automation**. Via the Neon API, you can:

- Provision new databases instantly
- Set per-project resource limits to support free, pro, and enterprise plans
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…and more

<MegaLink tag="Case Study" title="Retool uses the Neon API to manage over 300,000 databases with just one engineer — handling everything from provisioning to quota enforcement." url="/blog/how-retool-uses-retool-and-the-neon-api-to-manage-300k-postgres-databases" />
<MegaLink tag="Case Study" title="Retool uses the Neon API to manage over 300,000 databases with just one engineer, handling everything from provisioning to quota enforcement." url="/blog/how-retool-uses-retool-and-the-neon-api-to-manage-300k-postgres-databases" />

## Built-in quotas and billing controls

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## Built for your platform, not ours

**We’re not trying to own your user experience — we’re here to power it.** You can integrate Neon invisibly behind the scenes, whether you want to use our [OAuth integration](/docs/guides/oauth-integration) or manage Neon projects directly via API. **You decide how the database shows up in your UI, we take care of the rest.**
**We’re not trying to own your user experience. We’re here to power it.** You can integrate Neon invisibly behind the scenes, whether you want to use our [OAuth integration](/docs/guides/oauth-integration) or manage Neon projects directly via API. **You decide how the database shows up in your UI, we take care of the rest.**

## Beyond the database: Neon backend primitives

Lakebase Postgres is the core of what platforms embed today. When your product needs more than a database, Neon is also a complete set of cloud backend primitives built around that same Lakebase Postgres foundation. You can expose them to end users the same way you embed the database: via API, behind your own UI, with no separate Neon signup.

Optional primitives that sit on the same project and branch lifecycle:

- **[Managed Better Auth](/docs/auth/overview)** - authentication and identity stored in Postgres, branchable with the database
- **[Neon Data API](/docs/data-api/get-started)** - PostgREST-compatible HTTP access to each database and branch
- **[Neon Object Storage](/docs/storage/overview)** - S3-compatible files and blobs with per-branch isolation
- **[Neon Functions](/docs/compute/functions/overview)** - long-running Node.js compute next to the data
- **[Neon AI Gateway](/docs/ai-gateway/overview)** - one credential for frontier and open-source models

Adopt only what each user’s app needs. Keep Lakebase Postgres as the default, and turn on Auth, storage, functions, or model access when an app requires a fuller backend, without sending your users to another vendor.

For agent platforms and full-stack codegen, see also [Neon for AI Agent Platforms](/use-cases/ai-agents).

<CTA title="Let us help you launch" description="We’re happy to support proof-of-concepts, provide technical guidance, and share best practices from other platforms." theme="column" buttonText="Talk to us" buttonUrl="/contact-sales" linkText="Explore the API" linkUrl="/docs/reference/api" />
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