Neon CLI commands — projects

Before you begin

Before running the projects command, ensure that you have installed the Neon CLI.
If you have not authenticated with the neon auth command, running a Neon CLI command automatically launches the Neon CLI browser authentication process. Alternatively, you can specify a Neon API key using the --api-key option when running a command. See Connect.

For information about projects in Neon, see Projects.

The `projects` command

The projects command allows you to list, create, update, delete, and retrieve information about Neon projects.

Usage

neon projects <subcommand> [options]

Subcommand	Description
list	List projects
create	Create a project
update	Update a project
delete	Delete a project
get	Get a project

list

This subcommand allows you to list projects that belong to your Neon account, as well as any projects that were shared with you.

Usage

neon projects list [options]

Options

In addition to the Neon CLI global options, the projects subcommand supports this option:

Option	Description	Type	Required
`--context-file`	Context file path and file name	string
`--org-id`	List all projects belonging to the specified organization. If unspecified, personal account projects are listed instead.	string

Examples

List all projects belonging to your personal acccount

neon projects list
Projects
┌────────────────────────┬────────────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│ Id                     │ Name               │ Region Id     │ Created At           │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ crimson-voice-12345678 │ frontend           │ aws-us-east-2 │ 2024-04-15T11:17:30Z │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ calm-thunder-12121212  │ backend            │ aws-us-east-2 │ 2024-04-10T15:21:01Z │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ nameless-hall-87654321 │ billing            │ aws-us-east-2 │ 2024-04-10T14:35:17Z │
└────────────────────────┴────────────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────────────┘
Shared with you
┌───────────────────┬────────────────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│ Id                │ Name               │ Region Id        │ Created At           │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ noisy-fire-212121 │ API                │ aws-eu-central-1 │ 2023-04-22T18:41:13Z │
└───────────────────┴────────────────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────────────┘

List all projects belonging to the specified organization.

neon projects list --org-id org-xxxx-xxxx
Projects
┌───────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┬────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│ Id                        │ Name                      │ Region Id          │ Created At           │
├───────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ bright-moon-12345678      │ dev-backend-api           │ aws-us-east-2      │ 2024-07-26T11:43:37Z │
├───────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ silent-forest-87654321    │ test-integration-service  │ aws-eu-central-1   │ 2024-05-30T22:14:49Z │
├───────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ crystal-stream-23456789   │ staging-web-app           │ aws-us-east-2      │ 2024-05-17T13:47:35Z │
└───────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┴────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘

create

This subcommand allows you to create a Neon project.

Usage

neon projects create [options]

Options

In addition to the Neon CLI global options, the create subcommand supports these options:

Option	Description	Type
`--context-file`	Context file path and file name.	string
`--name`	The project name. The project ID is used if a name is not specified.	string
`--region-id`	The region ID. Possible values: `aws-us-west-2`, `aws-ap-southeast-1`, `aws-ap-southeast-2`, `aws-eu-central-1`, `aws-us-east-1`, `aws-us-east-2`, `azure-eastus2`. Defaults to `aws-us-east-2` if not specified.	string
`--org-id`	The organization ID where you want this project to be created. If unspecified, the project is created in your personal account.	string
`--psql`	Connect to your new project's database via `psql` immediately on project creation.	boolean
`--database`	The database name. If not specified, the default database name will be used.	string
`--role`	The role name. If not specified, the default role name will be used.	string
`--set-context`	Set the current context to the new project.	boolean
`--cu`	The compute size for the default branch's primary compute. Could be a fixed size (e.g., "2") or a range delimited by a dash (e.g., "0.5-3").	string

note

Neon projects created using the CLI use the default Postgres version, which is Postgres 17. To create a project with a different Postgres version, you can use the Neon Console or Neon API.

Examples

Create a project with a user-defined name in a specific region:

neon projects create --name mynewproject --region-id aws-us-west-2
┌───────────────────┬──────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│ Id                │ Name         │ Region Id     │ Created At           │
├───────────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ muddy-wood-859533 │ mynewproject │ aws-us-west-2 │ 2023-07-09T17:04:29Z │
└───────────────────┴──────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────────────┘

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Connection Uri                                                                       │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ postgresql://[user]:[password]@[neon_hostname]/[dbname]                              │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

tip

The Neon CLI provides a neon connection-string command you can use to extract a connection uri programmatically. See Neon CLI commands — connection-string.

Create a project with the --output format of the command set to json. This output format returns all of the project response data, whereas the default table output format (shown in the preceding example) is limited in the information it can display.

neon projects create --output json

Example output

{
"project": {
    "data_storage_bytes_hour": 0,
    "data_transfer_bytes": 0,
    "written_data_bytes": 0,
    "compute_time_seconds": 0,
    "active_time_seconds": 0,
    "cpu_used_sec": 0,
    "id": "long-wind-77910944",
    "platform_id": "aws",
    "region_id": "aws-us-east-2",
    "name": "long-wind-77910944",
    "provisioner": "k8s-pod",
    "default_endpoint_settings": {
    "autoscaling_limit_min_cu": 1,
    "autoscaling_limit_max_cu": 1,
    "suspend_timeout_seconds": 0
    },
    "pg_version": 17,
    "proxy_host": "us-east-2.aws.neon.tech",
    "branch_logical_size_limit": 204800,
    "branch_logical_size_limit_bytes": 214748364800,
    "store_passwords": true,
    "creation_source": "neonctl",
    "history_retention_seconds": 604800,
    "created_at": "2023-08-04T16:16:45Z",
    "updated_at": "2023-08-04T16:16:45Z",
    "consumption_period_start": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "consumption_period_end": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "owner_id": "e56ad68e-7f2f-4d74-928c-9ea25d7e9864"
},
"connection_uris": [
    {
    "connection_uri": "postgresql://alex:AbC123dEf@ep-cool-darkness-123456.us-east-2.aws.neon.tech/dbname",
    "connection_parameters": {
        "database": "dbname",
        "password": "AbC123dEf",
        "role": "alex",
        "host": "ep-cool-darkness-123456.us-east-2.aws.neon.tech",
        "pooler_host": "ep-cool-darkness-123456-pooler.us-east-2.aws.neon.tech"
    }
    }
]
}

Create a project and connect to it with psql.
```
neon project create --psql
```
Create a project, connect to it with psql, and run an .sql file.
```
neon project create --psql -- -f dump.sql
```
Create a project, connect to it with psql, and run a query.
```
neon project create --psql -- -c "SELECT version()"
```
Create a project and set the Neon CLI project context.
```
neon project create --psql --set-context
```

update

This subcommand allows you to update a Neon project.

Usage

neon projects update <id> [options]

The id is the project ID, which you can obtain by listing your projects or from the Settings page in the Neon Console.

Options

In addition to the Neon CLI global options, the update subcommand supports this option:

Option	Description	Type	Required
`--context-file`	Context file path and file name	string
`--name`	The project name. The value cannot be empty.	string	✓

Examples

Update the project name:

neon projects update muddy-wood-859533 --name dev_project_1
┌───────────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│ Id                │ Name          │ Region Id     │ Created At           │
├───────────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ muddy-wood-859533 │ dev_project_1 │ aws-us-west-2 │ 2023-07-09T17:04:29Z │
└───────────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────────────┘

delete

This subcommand allows you to delete a Neon project.

neon projects delete <id> [options]

The id is the project ID, which you can obtain by listing your projects or from the Settings page in the Neon Console.

Options

Only global options apply.

Example

neon projects delete muddy-wood-859533
┌───────────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│ Id                │ Name          │ Region Id     │ Created At           │
├───────────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ muddy-wood-859533 │ dev_project_1 │ aws-us-west-2 │ 2023-07-09T17:04:29Z │
└───────────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────────────┘

Information about the deleted project is displayed. You can verify that the project was deleted by running neon projects list.

get

This subcommand allows you to retrieve details about a Neon project.

Usage

neon projects get <id> [options]

The id is the project ID, which you can obtain by listing your projects or from the Settings page in the Neon Console.

Options

In addition to the Neon CLI global options, the delete subcommand supports this option:

Option	Description	Type	Required
`--context-file`	Context file path and file name.	string

Example

neon projects get muddy-wood-859533
┌───────────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│ Id                │ Name          │ Region Id     │ Created At           │
├───────────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ muddy-wood-859533 │ dev_project_1 │ aws-us-west-2 │ 2023-07-09T17:04:29Z │
└───────────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────────────┘

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Neon CLI commands — projects

Before you begin

The projects command

Usage

list

Usage

Options

Examples

create

Usage

Options

note

Examples

tip

update

Usage

Options

Examples

delete

Options

Example

get

Usage

Options

Example

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The `projects` command