PostgreSQL vs Turso

At a Glance

Attribute	PostgreSQL	Turso
Category	Database	Database
Pricing Model	open-source	freemium
Starting Price	Free	Free / $29/mo
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Open Source	Yes	Yes
Platforms	linux, macos, windows, containers	—

PostgreSQL

Turso

PostgreSQL

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Turso

Pros

Pricing is genuinely cheap — the free tier includes 9GB storage and 500 databases which covers most indie projects indefinitely+141
Edge replication puts a read replica close to every user without any configuration, which makes global apps feel instant+128

Database

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Cons

SQLite's limited ALTER TABLE support means schema migrations are more awkward than with Postgres — you often have to recreate tables+118
Write latency goes to the primary region, so users far from your primary location will see slower write performance than reads+94
Multi-tenant setups with hundreds of databases sound great in theory but managing that many separate databases adds operational complexity+83
The ecosystem is still young and you'll hit undocumented edge cases that require digging through GitHub issues to resolve+71