Neo4j alternatives

4 tools to consider instead of Neo4j, shown against it.

Neo4j TigerGraph ArangoDB Amazon Neptune Memgraph
Vendor Neo4j, Inc. TigerGraph, Inc. ArangoDB Inc. (operating as Arango) Amazon Web Services Memgraph Ltd.
Pricing model Free tier + paid plans Usage-based Quote only Usage-based Free tier + paid plans
Free tier Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Deployment Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted
Open source No No No (BSL-1.1) No No (BSL-1.1)
Best for Teams doing fraud detection, recommendations or knowledge graphs who want the most mature Cypher/graph tooling ecosystem. Enterprises needing deep multi-hop graph analytics at scale, such as fraud rings or complex supply-chain networks. Teams that want graph traversals and document queries against the same dataset without running two databases. AWS-centric teams who want a managed graph database without operating clusters, with flexibility to pick property-graph or RDF. Teams needing sub-second graph queries or GraphRAG/agent memory who want a Cypher-compatible engine without Neo4j's footprint.
Pricing

AuraDB is billed per GB/month above a free tier; self-managed Community edition is free, Enterprise requires a quote.

AuraDB Free $0
AuraDB Professional from $65/GB/month
AuraDB Business Critical from $146/GB/month
AuraDB Virtual Dedicated Cloud custom quote

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Savanna cloud is billed per GB of graph data per month plus elastic storage; self-managed Community edition is free, Enterprise is quoted.

TigerGraph Community Free
Savanna from $45/GB/month
Savanna Business Critical from $126/GB/month
TigerGraph Enterprise (self-managed) custom quote

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Community edition is free for non-production use; ArangoGraph cloud and Enterprise self-managed require contacting sales for a quote.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Billed per instance-hour plus storage and I/O for provisioned clusters, or per Neptune Capacity Unit for Serverless.

Neptune Database (Standard, db.r5.large) $0.348/hour
Neptune Database Storage $0.10/GB-month
Neptune Database I/O (Standard) $0.20 per million requests
Neptune Analytics $7.68 per m-NCU-hour

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Community edition is free and source-available; Enterprise is priced on memory used by graph data, quoted per customer.

Community Free

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • Cypher query language (basis of ISO GQL)
  • Native graph storage and index-free adjacency
  • Graph Data Science library of algorithms
  • Vector and full-text search alongside graph queries
  • Causal clustering for high availability
  • Bloom for no-code graph visualization
  • Bulk import and ETL tooling
  • Role-based access control
  • GSQL parallel graph query language
  • Massively parallel processing engine for deep-link traversals
  • User-defined functions for custom graph algorithms
  • GraphStudio visual schema and query IDE
  • Machine learning workbench for GNN feature engineering
  • REST++ API for application integration
  • Horizontal scaling via sharding
  • Automated backups on Savanna
  • AQL: one query language across graph, document and key/value data
  • SmartGraphs for horizontally sharded graph workloads
  • Native full-text and vector search
  • AutoGraph automatic knowledge-graph construction
  • GraphRAG-style retrieval for AI applications
  • ArangoGraph managed cloud (multi-cloud)
  • ACID transactions across collections
  • Dual model: property graph (Gremlin, openCypher) or RDF (SPARQL)
  • Neptune Serverless with per-second capacity billing
  • Neptune Analytics for algorithms and vector search
  • Neptune ML for graph neural network predictions via SageMaker
  • Multi-AZ high availability with automated failover
  • Bulk loader from Amazon S3
  • IAM-based fine-grained access control
  • Automated, incremental backups
  • openCypher query language (Neo4j-compatible)
  • In-memory storage engine for low-latency queries
  • Built-in and MAGE library graph algorithms
  • Dynamic/streaming algorithm updates
  • Native vector indexing alongside graph data
  • Memgraph Cloud managed instances
  • Kafka and Pulsar streaming ingestion

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