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Turso pricing
Turso publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, Turso pricing is free, then $4.99/month across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $4.99/month
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Turso plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Developer | $4.99/month | 4 | +$4.99/month, 4 more features |
| Scaler | $24.92/month | 4 | +$19.93/month, 3 more features |
| Pro | $416.58/month | 6 | +$391.65999999999997/month, 5 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 100 databases, 5 gb storage, 500m monthly rows read, overage charges apply.
Developer
$4.99/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Unlimited databases
- 9 GB storage
- 2.5B monthly rows read
- Overage charges $0.75/GB storage, $1 per billion rows
Scaler
$24.92/monthOver Developer, this tier adds:
- 24 GB storage
- 100B monthly rows read
- Overage charges $0.50/GB storage, $0.80 per billion rows
Pro
$416.58/monthOver Scaler, this tier adds:
- 50 GB storage
- 250B monthly rows read
- Priority email and Slack support
- BYOK encryption, HIPAA, SOC2 compliance
- SSO access
Where Turso stops being free
Free, Free
- 100 databases
- 5 GB storage
- 500M monthly rows read
- Overage charges apply
Developer, $4.99/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Unlimited databases
- 9 GB storage
- 2.5B monthly rows read
- Overage charges $0.75/GB storage, $1 per billion rows
What the product covers
The full Turso feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Per-tenant databases
- MIT licence
- Embedded replicas
- SQLite compatibility
- HTTP access
- Branching
- Point-in-time restore
- In-process engine
- Platform API
- Experimental Postgres frontend
People bring Turso in for multi-tenant saas where each customer gets their own database for real isolation, per-tenant restore and clean deletion, agent or session infrastructure that creates a throwaway database per task and destroys it afterwards, local-first and offline-capable applications where an embedded replica serves reads at file speed and syncs when connectivity returns, embedding a sqlite-compatible engine in a product where the public domain original's closed contribution model is a problem. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Turso are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Databases
Across the 3 databases tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $234/month. Turso starts at $4.99/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turso (this page) | Free, then $4.99/month | freemium | - | |
| Canary Labs | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | vs Turso |
| Presto | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Turso |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs Turso |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs Turso |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs Turso |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Turso |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Turso badges page.
Before you pay for Turso
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between Free and $416.58/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Turso runs on not recorded. The full record is on the Turso review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
Turso pricing questions
- How much does Turso cost?
- Turso publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free up to $416.58/month for Pro. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Turso have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 100 databases, 5 gb storage, 500m monthly rows read. Paying starts at $4.99/month for Developer.
- What is the difference between Free and Developer on Turso?
- Developer costs $4.99/month against Free, and adds unlimited databases, 9 gb storage, 2.5b monthly rows read, overage charges $0.75/gb storage, $1 per billion rows.
- Is the Pro plan on Turso worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 50 gb storage, 250b monthly rows read, priority email and slack support, byok encryption, hipaa, soc2 compliance. It costs $416.58/month against $4.99/month for Developer. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Turso expensive for a databases tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 3 databases tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $234/month; Turso starts at $4.99/month.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Turso have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with Turso?
- The record lists 10 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for multi-tenant saas where each customer gets their own database for real isolation, per-tenant restore and clean deletion, agent or session infrastructure that creates a throwaway database per task and destroys it afterwards, local-first and offline-capable applications where an embedded replica serves reads at file speed and syncs when connectivity returns.
- Does Turso charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Turso prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Turso against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Turso covering price, platforms and features.