ADoor vs Neon
Neon is serverless Postgres for developers, with branches, usage-based compute and an MCP server for coding agents. ADoor, your data account, runs on standard Postgres too, as one place for a team's records, set up from a chat, where every person, app and assistant gets its own access.
Where ADoor stands out
Made for assistants on real data
ADoor is built for assistants to read and change the records you use every day, each with its own narrow access and your approval for more. Neon recommends its MCP server for development and testing only, and advises against connecting it to production databases.
Access per assistant, without writing roles
On Neon, limiting what an agent can read means creating a Postgres role in SQL and pinning the MCP connection to it. In ADoor you choose what each connection can reach, down to a list, specific fields, or just the entries that match a value you choose.
Access per person, too
Neon organization members get access to every project in the organization. In ADoor you invite people by email as viewer, editor or owner, or give someone a single space.
The products
Neon
Neon runs Postgres projects that scale compute with use, with branches for testing and previews.
- Assistants
- A hosted MCP server with OAuth or API keys, with read-only, project and role scoping
- Plans
- Free with 100 projects, 1 GB of storage per project and 100 compute-hours per project. Paid plans bill by use.
- Branches
- 10 per project on Free and Launch, 25 on Scale
- Restore
- Instant restore on paid plans
ADoor
ADoor is your data account. You keep lists and tables in a workspace you own, personal or team: a reading list, an incident log, a list of customers. Describe what you want to keep track of and it's set up for you, with real Postgres underneath. Every person, app, assistant, device and job gets its own access.
- Assistants
- ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Cursor connect through MCP with a sign-in.
- Apps and scripts
- An HTTP API with keys, running the same actions assistants use
- Access
- Per space, list or field, or just the entries where a field equals a value you choose. Reading, adding, editing and deleting entries, and changing a list's fields, are separate permissions. An assistant never gets more than the person who connected it.
- Approvals
- Agents ask for more access and you approve or deny. A new device signs in only after you approve it and choose its access.
- CI jobs
- GitHub Actions signs in with short-lived access, 15 minutes by default and up to 30 days, with no stored secret.
- Revoking
- Takes effect on the next request. What was already saved stays.
- History
- A history of changes, with who made each one and the before and after
- Underneath
- Standard Postgres
- Plans
- Free for 3 tables and 100 rows. Pro is $10 a month per workspace, with 1 GB of storage.
Pricing
| Topic | ADoor | Neon |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 3 tables and 100 rows, with a few MB of storage | 100 projects, 1 GB of storage per project, 100 CU-hours |
| Paid plans | Pro: $10 a month per workspace, 1 GB of storage, no per-GB charges | Launch: $0.106 per CU-hour and $0.35 per GB-month of storage |
Latency
| Topic | ADoor | Neon |
|---|---|---|
| Published figure | Not published | A suspended compute starts again within a few hundred milliseconds |
Connectors and API
| Topic | ADoor | Neon |
|---|---|---|
| MCP server | Hosted, with OAuth sign-in. ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Cursor. | Hosted at mcp.neon.tech/mcp, with OAuth or an API key. Neon recommends it for development and testing. |
| HTTP API | HTTP API with keys: read, add, edit, delete, and change lists and fields | Neon API for projects and branches. Data API for reads and writes. |
| SQL access | Standard Postgres SQL through MCP and the API, within your access | Full Postgres with connection strings |
| Access per agent | Its own access per assistant, app, device and job, down to specific fields, or just the entries that match a value you choose | Read-only, one project, or a Postgres role you pick |
| Approvals | Agents ask for more access, and you approve or deny. New devices sign in only after you approve them. | Review actions in your MCP client |
| OAuth or tokens | OAuth for assistants, keys for apps, short-lived sign-in for GitHub Actions | OAuth or API keys |
| SDKs | Coming soon | TypeScript and Python SDKs for the Neon API |
| Webhooks | No | Not published |
| Import and export | Export to CSV or JSON. Import by attaching CSV or JSON in an assistant. | pg_dump and pg_restore |
ADoor has no sync connectors and no file storage.
Which one should you use?
Use Neon when
you're a developer who wants a Postgres database for an app, with branches for every preview.
- Branches. Copy a database for a test or a pull request.
- Any Postgres client. Connect your ORM, psql or a GUI.
- Pay for use. Compute scales with load, with no monthly minimum.
Use ADoor when
you want standard Postgres for company data and agents in production, with access per person and agent instead of roles you manage yourself.
Technical
- A production service writes event logs through the API, with no compute, branches or connection strings to manage.
- An agent in production gets read access to two lists. Neon recommends its MCP server for development and testing.
Personal
- Freelance invoices, clients and who has paid. Ask Grok on your phone who is more than 30 days late.
- Warranties and serial numbers for your gear, kept private until you share one list with someone.
Team
- An incident log across teams, where the on-call bot adds entries and only engineers can resolve them.
- A history of changes, with who made each one and the before and after.
Business
- Notes a Cursor agent writes while it works, readable by your other assistants, with no roles or grants to write.
- A contractor's access ends with one click, and what they added stays.
Questions people ask
Is ADoor plain Postgres?
Yes. ADoor runs on standard Postgres, so ordinary SQL queries work through MCP and the API, within your access.
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Checked October 20, 2026. Sources: Neon plans, Neon MCP server, Scale to zero, Neon API, Neon SDKs.