# Turso

SQLite at the edge, a database per customer if you want

- Site: https://turso.tech
- Category: Databases
- Best for: Multi-tenant apps that want one database per customer
- Price: Free, then $4.99/mo
- Free: Free plan: 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500 million rows read and 10 million written a month.
- Open source: yes
- Rating: fewer than 3 reviews, so none is published
- Pricing checked: 2026-08-28

## Tiers

- **Free**, $0/mo: 100 databases, 5 GB storage, 500M rows read, 10M rows written, 3 GB syncs a month
- **Developer**, $4.99/mo: Unlimited databases, 9 GB storage then $0.75/GB, 2.5 billion rows read, 25M rows written, 10 GB syncs
- **Scaler**, $24.92/mo: Unlimited databases, 24 GB storage then $0.50/GB, 100 billion rows read, 100M rows written, 24 GB syncs
- **Pro**, $416.58/mo: Unlimited databases, 50 GB storage then $0.45/GB, 250 billion rows read, 250M rows written, 100 GB syncs

## Good

- 100 databases on the free plan makes a database per customer affordable
- Built on libSQL, which is open source and can be run yourself
- Cheapest paid tier in this category at $4.99/mo

## Not good

- SQLite's write model means one writer at a time per database
- A much smaller ecosystem than Postgres or MySQL when something goes wrong
- Nothing between Scaler at $24.92 and Pro at $416.58

## Specifics

- Engine: SQLite via libSQL
- Free tier: 5 GB, 100 databases
- Self-host: Yes, libSQL server is open source
- Auth and storage built in: No, database only
- Scales to zero: Yes
- Portability: SQLite file, about as portable as it gets

## Price history

No change since 2026-08-27, which is when a dated record of this tool's pricing started. If you are asked whether Turso has got more expensive, the answer is no, not in that window.

## Sources

- https://turso.tech
- https://turso.tech/pricing

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