Re:3x performance for 1/4 of the price by migrating from AWS...
by inkyoto on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:25PM
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It is not easily possible to directly compare neo4j and AWS Neptune as the former does not exist as a fully managed service in AWS. neo4j is available through the AWS marketplace, though, but it most assuredly runs on an EC2 instance by neo4j (the company).
We run a modest graph workload (relatively small dataset wise but an intense on graph edge wise) on Neptune that costs us slightly under USD 600 per month – that is before the enterprise discount, so in reality we pay USD 450-500 a month. But we use Neptune Serverless that bursts out from time to time, which means that monthly charges are averaged out across the spikes/bursts. The monthly charges are for the serverless configuration of 3-16 NPU's.
Disk I/O stats are not available for Neptune, moreso for serverless clusters, and they would not be insightful anyway. The transactions per second rate is what I look at.
We run a modest graph workload (relatively small dataset wise but an intense on graph edge wise) on Neptune that costs us slightly under USD 600 per month – that is before the enterprise discount, so in reality we pay USD 450-500 a month. But we use Neptune Serverless that bursts out from time to time, which means that monthly charges are averaged out across the spikes/bursts. The monthly charges are for the serverless configuration of 3-16 NPU's.
Disk I/O stats are not available for Neptune, moreso for serverless clusters, and they would not be insightful anyway. The transactions per second rate is what I look at.