Turso pricing

SQLite replicated to the edge and billed on row reads and writes, which makes read-heavy workloads extremely cheap and write-heavy ones a poor fit.

List prices checked

By Turso · Managed databases

Rate card

What Turso charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Entry plan$8.25/moCheapest paid plan or typical entry configuration
Free tierYes500 databases, 9 GB of storage, and 1 billion row reads per month

Source: Turso pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

Turso billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

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Turso does not publish a rate for storage on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

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Turso does not publish a rate for storage on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

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Turso does not publish a rate for storage on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Turso vs the alternatives

The closest managed databases on price, with the difference on managed databases's headline axis.

ServiceEntry planvs TursoCompare
MongoDB Atlas$9.001.1× dearerHead to head
Google Cloud SQL$9.371.1× dearerHead to head
Upstash Redis$10.001.2× dearerHead to head
AWS RDS for PostgreSQL$12.401.5× dearerHead to head
Azure Database for PostgreSQL$12.411.5× dearerHead to head
Scaleway Managed Database$13.001.6× dearerHead to head

Questions about pricing

How much does Turso cost in 2026?
Turso charges $8.25 per month for the entry plan, per Turso's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: 500 databases, 9 GB of storage, and 1 billion row reads per month. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does Turso have a free tier?
Yes — 500 databases, 9 GB of storage, and 1 billion row reads per month. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
Are these Turso prices current?
They were checked against Turso's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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