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Amazon Neptune alternatives
4 tools to consider instead of Amazon Neptune, shown against it.
| Amazon Neptune | Neo4j | JanusGraph | TigerGraph | Stardog | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Neo4j, Inc. | JanusGraph (Linux Foundation project) | TigerGraph, Inc. | Stardog Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Free tier + paid plans | Open source + paid options | Usage-based | Free tier + paid plans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Free tier | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud, Self-hosted | Self-hosted | Cloud, Self-hosted | Cloud, Self-hosted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Open source | No | No | Yes (Apache-2.0) | No | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best for | AWS-centric teams who want a managed graph database without operating clusters, with flexibility to pick property-graph or RDF. | Teams doing fraud detection, recommendations or knowledge graphs who want the most mature Cypher/graph tooling ecosystem. | Teams running large distributed graphs on infrastructure they already operate, such as Cassandra or HBase clusters. | Enterprises needing deep multi-hop graph analytics at scale, such as fraud rings or complex supply-chain networks. | Organizations building a reasoning-capable knowledge graph across existing relational systems without full data migration. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pricing | Billed per instance-hour plus storage and I/O for provisioned clusters, or per Neptune Capacity Unit for Serverless.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | AuraDB is billed per GB/month above a free tier; self-managed Community edition is free, Enterprise requires a quote.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Free open-source software; costs come from the storage and indexing backends you choose to run it on. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Savanna cloud is billed per GB of graph data per month plus elastic storage; self-managed Community edition is free, Enterprise is quoted.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Stardog Free is a renewable one-year license with reduced features; Enterprise pricing is quoted after a consultation.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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