Neo4j Aura Manager MCP Server (Official)
Official Neo4j MCP server from neo4j-contrib enabling AI agents to interact with Neo4j graph databases and Neo4j Aura — executing Cypher queries, managing graph data, exploring schema, querying knowledge graphs, and integrating Neo4j's graph capabilities into agent-driven data workflows for graph analytics and relationship-based reasoning.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
TLS via neo4j+s://. Username/password auth with RBAC. Official neo4j-contrib MCP. Aura: SOC2, GDPR compliance. Use read-only user for query-only agents.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
An agent needs to query or traverse graph relationships — for knowledge graphs, social network analysis, recommendation engines, or any highly-connected data.
Avoid When
Your data is tabular/relational — graph databases add complexity without benefit for flat data structures.
Use Cases
- • Executing Cypher queries against Neo4j databases from graph analytics agents
- • Exploring graph schema and node/relationship types from data discovery agents
- • Building and querying knowledge graphs from reasoning agents
- • Analyzing network relationships and paths from graph traversal agents
- • Managing Neo4j Aura cloud instances from platform engineering agents
- • Running recommendation engine queries from ML pipeline agents
Not For
- • Teams using relational databases (use PostgreSQL or MySQL MCPs)
- • Teams using MongoDB or other document databases
- • Simple key-value storage (use Redis MCP)
Interface
Authentication
Neo4j standard auth (username/password via bolt protocol). Neo4j Aura uses API key for cloud management. Connection URI includes credentials. Role-based access via Neo4j RBAC.
Pricing
Neo4j Community Edition is open source and free. Aura Free tier available without credit card. Paid Aura tiers for production workloads.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ Cypher query language is Neo4j-specific — agents must know Cypher, not SQL
- ⚠ Graph schema is flexible (schema-optional) — agents may need to explore node/rel types first
- ⚠ Bolt protocol URI format: bolt://host:7687 or neo4j+s:// for encrypted
- ⚠ Node IDs are internal and unstable — use business keys, not internal IDs
- ⚠ MATCH without LIMIT can return huge result sets — agents must add LIMIT clauses
- ⚠ Aura vs self-hosted have slightly different feature sets and connection strings
Alternatives
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.