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 12 alternatives. Verified October 2026. Last updated 2026-10-30.
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 The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn.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 — 12 alternatives available.
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Free Tier Details
Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free. On 2026-10-02 Turso announced that Supabase is acquiring it. Turso says the service keeps running and that databases, APIs and workflows continue as they do today.
We read that on 2026-10-30 from https://turso.tech/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Turso as "turso" and states "$0".
From turso.tech/pricing, read 2026-10-30:
Free $0/month Databases 100 Storage 5GB Monthly Rows Read 500 Million Monthly Rows Written 10 Million Monthly Syncs 3GB Audit Logs Point-In-Time Restore 1 day Restore Deleted DBs DPA IP Allow Lists AWS VPC Allow Lists Teams SSO BYOK Encryption HIPAA SOC2 BYOC Deployment Support Community Sign up
Turso's free plan needs no credit card. (From turso.tech/pricing, read 2026-10-22.)
The Developer plan costs $5.99 per month, or $4.99 per month when billed yearly. It includes 9GB storage, 2.5 billion rows read, 25 million rows written and 10GB syncs per month. Overage rates are $0.75 per GB storage, $1 per billion rows read, $1 per million rows written and $0.35 per GB syncs. (From turso.tech/pricing.md, read 2026-10-29.)
Overage billing on a paid plan is off by default. Enabling it lets you go over your plan's included limits and pay per usage. (From turso.tech/pricing.md, read 2026-10-29.)
On the Free plan, or on a paid plan with Overages off, your databases are blocked once you exceed the limit on any single metric. (From turso.tech/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
Databases on the free plan are archived after 10 days of inactivity. The CLI command turso group unarchive <group-name> unarchives them. (From docs.turso.tech/cli/group/unarchive, read 2026-10-29.)
When You'll Outgrow Turso's Free Tier
On the Free plan, or on a paid plan with Overages off, your databases are blocked once you exceed the limit on any single metric.
At that point, the 12 alternatives in Databases are each listed with the free tier they offer, so you can compare what they give you against what you have outgrown.
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-05). 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 ↗
How Turso compares against every one of the 12 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.
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On the Free plan, once the account reaches its daily read or write limit, D1 refuses queries and returns errors until the limits reset at 00:00 UTC; upgrading to Workers Paid removes the limits. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-20.)
On the Free plan a single D1 database can hold at most 500 MB, and an account can have at most 10 databases, within the 5 GB account total. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/limits, read 2026-10-20.)
The Workers Paid plan includes 25 billion rows read, 50 million rows written, and 5 GB storage monthly. Rows read overage is $0.001 per million. Rows written overage is $1.00 per million. Storage overage is $0.75 per GB-mo. There are no egress charges. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
Time Travel restores a database from up to 30 days ago on Workers Paid and 7 days on Free. The paid plan has a 10 GB maximum database size and 1 TB storage per account. (From developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.)
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Distributed SQL database. No free plan for new deployments since 2026-09-15, when CockroachDB moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing.
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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 list above is every one of the 12 entries in that order, not a prefix of it. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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Yes, Turso offers a free tier: Free. Edge SQLite — 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read/month, 10M rows written/month free. On 2026-10-02 Turso announced that Supabase is acquiring it. Turso says the service keeps running and that...
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. On 2026-10-02 Turso announced that Supabase is acquiring it. Turso says the service keeps running and that databases, APIs and workflows continue as they do today. Turso's free plan needs no credit card. (From https://turso.tech/pricing, read 2026-10-22.) The Developer plan costs $5.99 per month, or $4.99 per month when billed yearly. It includes 9GB storage, 2.5 billion rows read, 25 million rows written and 10GB syncs per month. Overage rates are $0.75 per GB storage, $1 per billion rows read, $1 per million rows written and $0.35 per GB syncs. (From https://turso.tech/pricing.md, read 2026-10-29.) Overage billing on a paid plan is off by default. Enabling it lets you go over your plan's included limits and pay per usage. (From https://turso.tech/pricing.md, read 2026-10-29.) On the Free plan, or on a paid plan with Overages off, your databases are blocked once you exceed the limit on any single metric. (From https://turso.tech/pricing, read 2026-10-29.) Databases on the free plan are archived after 10 days of inactivity. The CLI command turso group unarchive <group-name> unarchives them. (From https://docs.turso.tech/cli/group/unarchive, read 2026-10-29.)
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 12 free alternatives to Turso in Databases, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 11 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?
On the Free plan, or on a paid plan with Overages off, your databases are blocked once you exceed the limit on any single metric. The 12 alternatives in Databases are each listed above with the free tier they offer.
What category is Turso in?
Turso is categorized under Databases on AgentDeals. We list 12 other Databases services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.