# The 10 Most Popular Postgres Extensions on Neon

DevFeed: [The 10 Most Popular Postgres Extensions on Neon](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-10-most-popular-postgres-extensions-on-neon-5812.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/ten-most-popular-postgres-extensions>)

Author: Ben Hagan

Published: 2025-08-21T16:04:10Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>), [Query (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/query.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

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## AI overview

The article presents the ten most popular Postgres extensions on Neon, using platform-wide installation and usage statistics. It explains how extensions can add full-text search, geospatial capabilities, vector storage for embeddings, database functions, query-performance monitoring, and UUID generation, and highlights an interactive real-time dashboard for exploring the data.

## Source excerpt

Postgres is loved not just for what it is, but for what it can become: its extension system lets you transform your database into a full-text search engine, a geospatial powerhouse, or a vector store for embeddings - all without switching tools. With many thousands of active data...