When asked for the best serverless database, 6 AI assistants named 5 brands between them this month. DynamoDB was named most often, followed by Neon and PlanetScale. One brand was named by every assistant that answered: DynamoDB.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DynamoDB | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Neon | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| PlanetScale | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Supabase | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Amazon DynamoDB | · | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 2 brands, in this order: DynamoDB, PlanetScale.
Selecting the best serverless database for a small business depends on several factors, including your specific use case, budget, technical expertise, and existing technology stack.
Perplexity
Named 3 brands, in this order: Neon, Amazon DynamoDB, DynamoDB.
For most small businesses, the best default choice is usually Neon if you want a serverless PostgreSQL database, because it keeps standard Postgres compatibility, can scale to zero to control early costs, and is recommended as a strong starting point for new applications.
Claude
Named 4 brands, in this order: PlanetScale, Supabase, Neon, DynamoDB.
Would you like more details about any specific option?
Grok
Named 4 brands, in this order: Supabase, PlanetScale, Neon, DynamoDB.
The "best" serverless database for a small business depends on your specific needs (SQL vs NoSQL, expected traffic, team skills, and budget), but here are the strongest options in 2024–2025, ranked by practicality for small teams:
DeepSeek
Named 4 brands, in this order: Neon, Supabase, DynamoDB, PlanetScale.
There's no single "best" serverless database — it depends on your workload, budget, and how much you want to avoid vendor lock-in.
Cohere
Named 2 brands, in this order: Amazon DynamoDB, DynamoDB.
Choosing the best serverless database for a small business depends on several factors, including the specific needs of the business, the type of data being stored, the required scalability, and the budget.
The questions asked
- What is the best serverless database for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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