Best Turso Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

13 free alternatives in Databases. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Turso Situation

Risk Level: stable
Category: Databases
Pricing Page: turso.tech/pricing

Recent Pricing Changes (1)

reduced discovered 2026-09-01 low impact
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-05). The free tier now offers 500 Million rows read/month and 10 Million rows written/month, matching previously. The free tier now includes 5GB of storage. Previously 5GB. Retracted 2026-09-05: Turso's free tier was not reduced. turso.tech/pricing, fetched 2026-09-05, states the Free column as "Databases Free 100", "Storage Free 5GB", "Monthly Rows Read Free 500 Million" and "Monthly Rows Written Free 10 Million" — all four are the figures our stored description already carried. This record's own summary says the same in its own words: "500 Million rows read/month and 10 Million rows written/month, matching previously" and "The free tier now includes 5GB of storage. Previously 5GB." This row was our error, not a change Turso made.

All Free Alternatives (13)

13 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 0 are demoted with the reason named, and 0 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

Left out of this list: MongoDB Atlas (shares no subtype with this product), Upstash (shares no subtype with this product), Firebase (shares no subtype with this product), Databricks (Lakeflow Connect) (none of this category's subtypes apply), Convex (shares no subtype with this product), Appwrite Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), PocketBase (shares no subtype with this product), Hasura Cloud (extends another product), Cloudflare KV (shares no subtype with this product), Momento (shares no subtype with this product), DynamoDB Local (runs only on a developer machine), Redis Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Prisma Accelerate (extends another product), Weaviate (shares no subtype with this product), Zilliz Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), LanceDB (shares no subtype with this product), Upstash Vector (shares no subtype with this product), Chroma (shares no subtype with this product), Turbopuffer (shares no subtype with this product), Gel (we have not classified this record), Neo4j AuraDB (shares no subtype with this product), InfluxDB Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), 8base.com (shares no subtype with this product), codehooks.io (shares no subtype with this product), Couchbase Capella (shares no subtype with this product), restdb.io (shares no subtype with this product), SeaTable (none of this category's subtypes apply), skyvia.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), StackBy (none of this category's subtypes apply), ScaleGrid Startup Program (none of this category's subtypes apply), Google Cloud BigQuery (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

CockroachDB stable
Basic
Databases Verified 2026-08-31
Koyeb stable
Free (Database Only)
Databases Verified 2026-08-13
Aiven stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-28
Nile stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-23
Xata caution 2026-04-19 model change
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-22
Cloudflare D1 stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-09-01
filess.io stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-28
Supabase caution discovered 2026-09-03 restructured
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-17
SurrealDB Cloud caution 2026-04-12 reduced
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-27
CrateDB stable
Free (CRFREE)
Databases Verified 2026-07-07
Neon stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-09-01
Free Tier
Databases Verified 2026-09-02
Nhost stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-25
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-06
query_key
alternative-to:Turso
seed
3a5c3bf6749c061f07c6364ae3f248cb5819bf047c9aa29e4410c16f5827db71
tie_count
13

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Turso?
The best free alternatives to Turso include CockroachDB (Basic), Koyeb (Free (Database Only)), Aiven (Free), Nile (Free), Cloudflare D1 (Free).
Is Turso's free tier still available?
Yes, Turso currently offers a free tier (Free). The one change we have recorded did not narrow the terms.
How many free alternatives to Turso exist?
There are 13 free alternatives to Turso tracked on AgentDeals across the Databases category.
Has Turso changed their pricing?
Turso has 1 recorded pricing change. The most recent was discovered 2026-09-01: Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-05). The free tier now offers 500 Million rows read/month and 10 Million rows written/month, matching previously. The free tier now includes 5GB of storage. Previously 5GB. Retracted 2026-09-05: Turso's free tier was not reduced. turso.tech/pricing, fetched 2026-09-05, states the Free column as "Databases Free 100", "Storage Free 5GB", "Monthly Rows Read Free 500 Million" and "Monthly Rows Written Free 10 Million" — all four are the figures our stored description already carried. This record's own summary says the same in its own words: "500 Million rows read/month and 10 Million rows written/month, matching previously" and "The free tier now includes 5GB of storage. Previously 5GB." This row was our error, not a change Turso made.

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