Set up Neon MCP in Cursor
Manage Neon serverless Postgres projects, branches, databases, and run SQL queries and migrations directly from your AI editor.
1
Locate the config file
Cursor reads MCP server configuration from the following file:
.cursor/mcp.jsonCreate this file if it does not already exist.
2
Add the configuration
Add the following to your Cursor config file:
json
{
"mcpServers": {
"neon-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@neondatabase/mcp-server-neon"
],
"env": {
"NEON_API_KEY": "YOUR_NEON_API_KEY"
}
}
}
}3
Set up environment variables
Neon MCP requires the following environment variables:
NEON_API_KEYRequiredNeon API key for authentication
4
Verify it works
Restart Cursor. Neon MCP should appear in your MCP server list with 18 tools available.
This server adds approximately 9,270 tokens to your context window for tool definitions.