If you’re building open-source tools powered by Postgres, we want to help you grow. The Neon Open Source Program provides up to $5,000 in Neon credits each year, additional real cash payouts through GitHub Sponsorships, and promotional support to help your work reach millions of developers.
Why We’re Doing This
Open source is stronger when its creators can build sustainable businesses around their work. We believe commercial open source plays a vital role in keeping innovation thriving and communities growing.
We’ve learned this firsthand. At Neon, open source isn’t a side project, it’s core to our business. Our founders and engineers are contributing to upstream Postgres. Our success is shared with Postgres’s success. As we’ve grown our platform, evolved our strategy, and even joined a larger company, that commitment hasn’t changed. As Postgres thrives, so does Neon.
We want to help build resilient ecosystems to support this success. That’s why we’re launching the Neon Open Source Program: to help Postgres-powered projects scale sustainably with the infrastructure, funding, and visibility they need to grow.
About the Program
The Neon Open Source Program provides up to $5,000 in Neon credit each year, even more in real cash payouts through GitHub Sponsorships, and promotional support to help your work reach millions of developers.
Those selected for the program get:
- Neon Credit: Up to $5,000 per year, applied toward production, dev, or staging workloads.
- Cash Payments: We’ll give you real payments through GitHub Sponsorships for every developer who discovers Neon via your project and becomes a Neon customer.
- Promotion & Partnership Support: We’ll help amplify your work across Neon’s 1M+ developer community with blog posts, social media, case studies, and co-marketing.
Why Neon is the Right Choice for Open Source
Neon is built for developers and open-source workflows:
- Instant Provisioning & Autoscaling: Neon Postgres spins up instantly, scales up when you need it most, and scales to zero when you don’t.
- Transparent pricing and generous free plan: so your community grows without being constrained by infrastructure cost.
- Modern Postgres workflows: Branch your database, create isolated environments, and restore TBs of data in milliseconds.
- Seamless integration with open-source tooling: whether you’re building extensions, platforms, or libraries that use Postgres, Neon gives you the foundation to build and scale.
Who Should Apply
This program is ideal for open-source projects that meet these criteria:
- Your software is open source, publicly available under a recognized license, and freely hostable.
- You use Postgres as a core component (as preferred database, an extension, plugin, or another workflow).
- You have documentation, CLI tools or code examples that show how your users can build with Neon.
- You’re ready to scale your community, not just your infrastructure.
Applications are now open!
If your open source project relies on Postgres and needs room to scale, we’re here to help. Apply to the Neon Open Source Program today!
