Turso free tier includes Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free. Verified September 2026. Compare with 13 alternatives in Databases.

Turso Free Tier 2026 stable

Subtypes in Databases: relational — tables, rows and joins under SQL — Postgres, MySQL, SQLite family. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://turso.tech/, where it says: “A full SQLite drop-in replacement, built for the agentic future.” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 13 alternatives. Verified September 2026. Last updated 2026-09-18.

Turso's free tier offers Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free. We rate it stable. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. Best for databases workloads — 13 alternatives available.

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Free
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Pricing Page
Verified
2026-09-18
Last read
2026-09-18
The day we last read the vendor's page, and the day we last confirmed the terms we publish.

Free Tier Details

Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free

We read that on 2026-09-18 from https://turso.tech/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Turso as "turso" and states "$0".

When You'll Outgrow Turso's Free Tier

Pricing Change History (1 recorded)

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. Source ↗
Before: Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free
After: Free tier includes 5GB storage, 500 Million rows read/month, and 10 Million rows written/month.

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Alternatives in Databases

How Turso compares against every one of the 13 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.

Service Free Tier Stability
Turso Free stable
Aiven Free stable
SurrealDB Cloud Free caution
Koyeb Free (Database Only) stable
CrateDB Free (CRFREE) stable
Neon Free stable
Nile Free unrated
Nhost Free stable
Supabase Free stable
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Free Tier stable
Cloudflare D1 Free stable
filess.io Free stable
Xata Free stable
CockroachDB Trial risky

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), 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), Hasura (extends another 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), Google Cloud BigQuery (shares no subtype with this product), PlanetScale (we have not classified this record). Each is still listed in Databases, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Turso free?
Yes, Turso offers a free tier: Free. Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free
What is Turso's free tier?
Turso's free tier is called "Free". Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free
Is Turso's free tier reliable?
Turso's free tier is considered stable. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. See the pricing history below.
Is Turso's free tier good for production?
Turso's free tier can be suitable for small production workloads and side projects. We rate it stable and it offers Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free, so it's a reasonable starting point. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. Monitor your usage against the limits and have an upgrade plan ready.
What changed in Turso's pricing?
The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn.
What are the best free alternatives to Turso?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 13 free alternatives to Turso in Databases, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 12 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 1 is demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow Turso's free tier?
At 5 GB storage, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.
What category is Turso in?
Turso is categorized under Databases on AgentDeals. We list 13 other Databases services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.

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