Neon — Postgres backends for apps and agents

# Neon Postgres > Neon is the backend for apps and agents. Neon Postgres, Neon Auth, and Data API are available today, with Storage, Compute, and AI Gateway coming soon. Every service is agent-ready: instant, branchable, and serverless. Neon Postgres includes autoscaling, instant restore, and scale-to-zero, and is fully compatible with any language, framework, or ORM that supports Postgres. Neon docs are available as markdown. Append `.md` to any doc URL or set `Accept: text/markdown`. This is the primary index. Sections with many pages show key pages and link to full sub-indexes. ## Common Queries - [Pricing and plans](https://neon.com/pricing.md) - [Choose a connection method (drivers, pooling, serverless)](https://neon.com/docs/connect/choose-connection.md) - [Troubleshoot connection errors and timeouts](https://neon.com/docs/connect/connection-errors.md) - [pgvector extension for vector search and embeddings](https://neon.com/docs/extensions/pgvector.md) - [Neon API reference (projects, branches, databases, endpoints)](https://neon.com/docs/reference/api-reference.md) ## Introduction Architecture, features, autoscaling, branching concepts, billing, and plans. - [All 35 Introduction pages](https://neon.com/docs/introduction/llms.txt) — key pages below - [Autoscaling](https://neon.com/docs/introduction/autoscaling.md): An introduction to Neon's autoscaling - [Branching](https://neon.com/docs/introduction/branching.md): Branch your data the same way you branch your code - [Neon Read Replicas](https://neon.com/docs/introduction/read-replicas.md): Scale your app, run ad-hoc queries, and provide read-only access without duplicating data - [Neon's lakebase architecture](https://neon.com/docs/introduction/architecture-overview.md): Inside Neon Postgres: decoupled compute and durable storage - [Plans and billing](https://neon.com/docs/introduction/about-billing.md): Learn about Neon's pricing plans and how to manage billing - [Scale to Zero](https://neon.com/do