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Neon vs PlanetScale: which is more reliable? (2026)
Neon and PlanetScale are effectively tied on reliability (87.6 vs 89.1). Over the last 90 days Neon reported 3 incidents and PlanetScale reported 6, with effective uptime of 100% and 99.92% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Neon | PlanetScale |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 87.6 | 89.1 |
| Rank (managed database services) | #4 | #3 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 100% | 99.92% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 3 | 6 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 4 |
| Avg time to resolve | — | 54m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Neon and PlanetScale differ
- PlanetScale reported 2× as many incidents as Neon over the last 90 days (6 vs 3).
- PlanetScale had 4 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Neon.
90-day uptime
Neon
PlanetScale
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Neon incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- MaintenanceOct 1, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- MaintenanceSep 17, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- MaintenanceSep 16, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- MaintenanceSep 16, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceAug 17, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Recent PlanetScale incidents
- Partial outageOct 26, 2026 · resolved in 1h 38m
Problems with Vitess connectivity and credential changes
Affected: us-east1 (Moncks Corner), europe-west4 (Eemshaven), ap-south-1 (Mumbai), sa-east-1 (Sao Paulo), us-east4 (Northern Virginia), ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) +13 more
- InformationalOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 1h 8m
- Partial outageOct 9, 2026 · resolved in 26m
AWS us-east-1 connectivity failures
Affected: us-east-1 (Northern Virginia), us-east-1 (Northern Virginia)
- Degraded performanceSep 28, 2026 · resolved in 2h 3m
Branch creation delays in GCP europe-west-1
Affected: Database Operations
- Partial outageSep 5, 2026 · resolved in 14m
Connectivity issues with Vitess databases in GCP
Affected: us-east1 (Moncks Corner), europe-west1 (St. Ghislain), europe-west4 (Eemshaven), us-central1 (Iowa), northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal), asia-northeast3 (Seoul) +1 more
- Partial outageSep 2, 2026 · resolved in 10m
Dashboard and API 500 errors for postgres databases
Affected: Dashboard and API Requests
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- Upstash · #1 · 100% uptime
- Prisma Postgres · #2 · 99.96% uptime
- Convex · #5 · 99.87% uptime
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases · #6 · 99.93% uptime
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