Is Turso worth the price?
Turso offers a generous free tier for edge SQLite databases.
The usage-based overage model means costs stay low for small apps but can surprise at scale — row read/write charges add up fast on high-traffic workloads.
Pricing Plans
Free
$0
- 100 databases
- 5GB total storage
- 500M monthly rows read
- 10M monthly rows written
- 1-day point-in-time restore
- Community support
Developer
$4.99
- Unlimited databases
- 9GB storage
- 2.5B monthly rows read
- 25M monthly rows written
- 10-day point-in-time restore
Scaler
$24.92
- 2,500 monthly active databases
- 24GB storage
- 100B monthly rows read
- 30-day point-in-time restore
- Teams support
- DPA included
Pro
$416.58
- 10,000 monthly active databases
- 50GB storage
- 250B monthly rows read
- SSO
- HIPAA
- SOC2 compliance
- Priority support
Hidden Costs & Gotchas
Row reads billed per billion ($0.75–1/B) — high-traffic apps can spike costs
Row writes billed per million ($0.75–1/M) — write-heavy apps pay more
Embedded replicas sync bandwidth billed per GB ($0.15–0.35/GB)
Overages auto-enabled on new subscriptions since March 2025
Storage overages at $0.45–0.75/GB/month
Which Plan Do You Need?
Edge-first applications
Multi-region apps
Serverless backends
Read-heavy workloads
Our Recommendation
startup
Free tier handles MVPs easily (500M reads, 10M writes, 5GB). Move to Scaler at $25/mo when you need more databases or point-in-time restore.
enterprise
Pro at $417/mo is expensive — evaluate Neon or PlanetScale for heavy production workloads with more predictable pricing.
freelancer
Free tier is excellent for client projects. 100 databases and 5GB storage covers most small apps.
How Turso Compares to Competitors
Neon offers a more generous free tier (10 branches, 0.5 GB) with standard Postgres compatibility. PlanetScale (MySQL) has better branching for schema changes. Supabase bundles auth, storage, and realtime with Postgres for $25/mo. Turso wins on edge latency with embedded replicas but uses SQLite — not standard Postgres.
