Create a Neon Twin

Explore our dev/test use case

Move development and testing to Neon; keep production right where it is.
Read more about our dev/test use case here.

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A Neon Twin is a full or partial clone of your production or staging database, providing developers and teams with isolated, sandboxed environments that closely mirror production.

Creating a Neon Twin will streamline development workflows, enhance productivity, and help teams ship faster, all while being more cost-effective and easier to manage than traditional development/testing environments.

The workflows in this section enable automatic synchronization between your production database and your Neon Twin.

With a Neon Twin created, branches can be quickly spun up or torn down, enabling developers to build new features or debug issues, all within their own isolated environments with a dedicated compute resource.

Branches can be created and managed through the Neon console or programmatically via the API.

Pick the workflow that fits your needs. A full Twin mirrors your entire production database; a partial Twin clones only the schema and selected tables, which is faster and useful when you don't need every row of production data.