Neon CLI gets a unified postgres command, and a quiet replica cap
A new neon postgres command manages computes directly from the terminal, while the same release caps paid-plan read replicas at six per branch.
Neon’s 6 November changelog adds a neon postgres command (aliased pg and lakebase) that groups Postgres operations and brings compute management into the CLI. You can now list, inspect, resize, start, suspend, restart and delete computes without opening the console.
The same release quietly caps read replicas on paid plans at six per branch. Branches that already have more keep them, but cannot add another until they drop under the limit. Neon says computes up to 16 CU, including autoscaling ones, also now pick up updates automatically rather than waiting for a manual restart.
neon postgres computes list --branch main
neon postgres computes update ep-cool-king-123456 --cu 0.25-2Why it matters: the CLI change is a convenience, useful if your deploy scripts or agents already shell out to neon. The replica cap is the one to actually check: if you lean on Neon for read scaling and already run more than six replicas on a branch, you are grandfathered in but boxed in, and will need to consolidate before adding more.
The caveat: the changelog does not say why the cap was introduced, or whether it will tighten further for branches currently over the limit.