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What Turso really costs at your usage

Turso priced at YOUR usage from verified pricing pages — 100 databases, 5GB storage, 500M rows read / 10M rows written per month. See the free-tier ceiling, the per-unit overage, and exactly when it starts costing real money.

Prices verified 2026-07-15 against official pricing pages · fit weights are our estimates (see methodology) · share the URL to share your configuration

As of Jul 2026, with 50,000 monthly active users, 15 GB database size, 120 GB monthly egress, 3,000 db operations per user / month, 24 compute active hours / day, a $50 budget for this slot, Turso ranks first for these inputs at 76% fit and a StackSays-estimated $9.49/month. Fit weights are our estimates; prices trace to official pages. Change any input below and the verdict recomputes.

Your situation

The verdict updates as you move these.

Database size (GB)rows + indexes; a typical early SaaS is 1–10GBBudget for this slot ($/mo)what you'd accept paying for the database layerTeam size1 = solo; bundled platforms save glue time for small teams

Clear pick for your inputs

Tursofit 76% · est $9.49/mo

SQLite at the edge — hundreds of cheap databases, reads close to users

Tursofit 76%

$9.49/mo

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The decision, in plain words

For a solo builder at 50,000 monthly active users and a $50.00/mo budget for the database slot, Turso leads at 76% fit and $9.49/mo. The two rules doing the work: budget fit (~$9.49/mo is 19% of your $50/mo budget); free-tier runway (Free tier exists (100 databases, 5GB storage, 500M rows read / 10M rows written per month) — a cheap staging/dev lane even after you outgrow it).

Honest weak spot of the pick: growing — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool.

Generated from the calculation above — every number traces to the sourced data; nothing here is written by an AI making things up.

Why Turso scores 76%

Budget fit (weight 30, our estimate) — ~$9.49/mo is 19% of your $50/mo budget+30

Batteries included (weight 12, our estimate) — Database only — you assemble the rest separately+0

Exit cost (weight 4, our estimate) — SQL but not Postgres — portable with some rework+0.8

Ecosystem maturity (weight 8, our estimate) — growing — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool-1.6

Free-tier runway (weight 10, our estimate) — Free tier exists (100 databases, 5GB storage, 500M rows read / 10M rows written per month) — a cheap staging/dev lane even after you outgrow it+4

Total (lines sum exactly)33.2

Possible range −64…+64 (sum of active rule weights) · fit % = (total + max) / (2 × max)(33.2 + 64) / 128 = 76%

How the $9.49/mo estimate is calculated

Developer plan base — includes 9GB database storage$4.99

Database storage overage — 6GB over 9GB included × $0.75/GB$4.50

Note — 2.5B rows read / 25M rows written included$0

Monthly total (lines sum exactly)$9.49

What could change this verdict

No single input change within the tested range changes the winner.

Cost risk

Estimated now (StackSays estimate, not your final bill)$9.49/mo · Developer plan

Free-tier statusFree tier exceeded (database storage 15GB > 5GB cap)

Official prices verified 2026-07-15; calculation is deterministic code over those prices.

At a glance

Tool	Free tier	Paid entry	Verified
Turso	100 databases, 5GB storage, 500M rows read / 10M rows written per month	Developer plan $4.99/mo	2026-07-15

Where did you land?anonymous, one click

Data sources

Tool	Source	Verified
Turso	Turso pricing page	2026-07-15

A monitor re-checks these pages for changes; when a vendor moves a price, the date updates and every verdict recomputes.

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