neon vs llama_index
neon and llama_index share 12 technologies: asyncpg, psycopg2-binary, Redis, clickhouse-connect, AIOHTTP, pyjwt, jinja2, opentelemetry-semantic-conventions, prometheus-client, psutil, boto3, and OpenTelemetry. neon is written in Rust and llama_index in Python.
What they share and what sets them apart
neondatabase
neon
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
Rust23.3kRead on November 4, 2026, at commit fa50421What is neon built with?Only in neon
- axum
- tower
aws-sdk-s3
pg8000
- Postgres
- moka
AWS S3- Sentry
- Tokio
werkzeug
- jsonwebtoken
- hmac
- ed25519-dalek
parquet
tracing
- prometheus
tracing-subscriber
- env_logger
opentelemetry-otlp
- tracing-opentelemetry
tracing-appender
- log
In common
- asyncpg
psycopg2-binary
- Redis
clickhouse-connect
- AIOHTTP
- pyjwt
- jinja2
opentelemetry-semantic-conventions
prometheus-client
psutil
- boto3
- OpenTelemetry
run-llama
llama_index
LlamaIndex is the document processing platform for AI
Python52.8kRead on November 5, 2026, at commit 444fdf0What is llama_index built with?Only in llama_index
starlette
- aiomysql
- aiosqlite
- async-lru
- azure-search-documents
- azure-storage-blob
- ibm-db
- pgvecto-rs
pgvector
psycopg
- pyzmq
weaviate-client
pyarrow
lancedb
oracledb
- DuckDB
- pymilvus
- SQLite
- tablestore
chromadb
falkordb
- MySQL
pinecone
- gcsfs
pyiceberg
pymochow
- pymysql
- pyobvector
- s3fs
- tcvectordb
typesense
- ElevenLabs
- anyio
- graphql-core
tornado
- Ray
- soupsieve
- tinycss2
- ipywidgets
- matplotlib-inline
prompt-toolkit
matplotlib
- Rich
- SQLAlchemy
- argon2-cffi
- azure-identity
google-auth-httplib2
google-auth-oauthlib
- cryptography
- msal
- einops
firecrawl-py
- guardrails-ai
llama-index-core
- mem0ai
OpenAIopencv-python
- PaddlePaddle
- tavily-python
- torch
- transformers
- ibm-watsonx-ai
cohere
- LangChain
- tiktoken
- MCP
sentence-transformers
dashscope
fastembed
- flagembedding
nltk
- sentencepiece
litellm
- ModelScope
- Ollama
- openvino
- scikit-learn
- tritonclient
- vLLM
- datasets
- exa-py
- flashrank
- hnswlib
langfuse
mlx
- mlx-lm
nomic
optimum
- paddleocr
peft
presidio-analyzer
tokenizers
- beautifulsoup4
- bleach
markupsafe
- mistune
- nbformat
- newspaper3k
- xlrd
pillow
- bs4
- html2text
unstructured
- defusedxml
lxml
pymupdf
- filetype
- docx2txt
- markdownify
docling
- lxml-html-clean
- markitdown
- nbconvert
- pdf2image
- pdfplumber
pypdf
pypdf2
tinytag
- youtube-transcript-api
- jsonschema-specifications
marshmallow
- referencing
- rfc3339-validator
- Pydantic
docling-core
- annotated-types
- jsonschema
- pydantic-core
- opentelemetry-api
- python-json-logger
- docker
- Alibaba Cloud
Side by side
neonllama_index
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
neon379,885 lines written659 code files
llama_index473,236 lines written2,055 code files
Who writes itA commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
neon0.1% of its commits signed by AIWith Devin
llama_index0.2% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
neonLast push August 31, 20268,459 commits23,296 stars
llama_indexLast push November 5, 20267,963 commits52,820 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
neon281 test files12.4% of its code files have a test that imports them
llama_index1,607 test files46.5% of its code files have a test that imports them
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, neon or llama_index?
llama_index, with 473,236 lines written; neon has 379,885.
Which has more GitHub stars, neon or llama_index?
llama_index, with 52,820 stars; neon has 23,296.
The proof: run-llama/llama_index on GitHub
Which has more tests, neon or llama_index?
llama_index, with 1,607 test files; neon has 281.
Which was updated more recently, neon or llama_index?
llama_index: its last push was on November 5, 2026, and neon's on August 31, 2026.
The proof: run-llama/llama_index's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, neon or llama_index?
llama_index: an AI signed 0.2% of its commits, with Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot; in neon, 0.1%.
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