# Turso Cloud

Millions of Databases. One Architecture.

Source: https://wheredoirunthis.com/products/turso · JSON: https://wheredoirunthis.com/api/products/turso · Read on 2026-10-15

## At a glance

- Type: Database
- Kind: Open core
- Isolation: Not disclosed
- Free tier: Yes
- Starting price: $5.99/mo
- GPU: No
- Regions: 10
- Coverage: 16 of 61 assessed capabilities supported
- Agent readiness: read 8.5 of 11 signals, drive 8 of 11 signals

## Links

- Homepage: https://turso.tech/
- Docs: https://docs.turso.tech/
- Pricing: https://turso.tech/pricing
- Repository: https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql

## Pricing

- Model: freemium subscription tiers + row/storage/sync usage overages
- Unit: rows read per billion, rows written per million, storage GB, sync GB
- Free tier: Yes

| Tier | Price | Includes | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0/month; $0/month billed yearly ($0/year) | 100 databases; 500 Million rows read/month; 10 Million rows written/month; 3 GB syncs/month; 1-day PITR; audit retention None days. | Annual invoice $0; stated effective monthly $0. Actual monthly subscription is base.amount; annual commitment not assumed. [source](https://turso.tech/pricing.md) |
| Developer | $5.99/month; $4.99/month billed yearly ($59.88/year) | Unlimited databases; 2.5 Billion rows read/month; 25 Million rows written/month; 10 GB syncs/month; 10-day PITR; audit retention 3 days. | Annual invoice $59.88; stated effective monthly $4.99. Actual monthly subscription is base.amount; annual commitment not assumed. [source](https://turso.tech/pricing.md) |
| Scaler | $29/month; $24.92/month billed yearly ($299/year) | Unlimited databases; 100 Billion rows read/month; 100 Million rows written/month; 24 GB syncs/month; 30-day PITR; audit retention 14 days. | Annual invoice $299; stated effective monthly $24.92. Actual monthly subscription is base.amount; annual commitment not assumed. [source](https://turso.tech/pricing.md) |
| Pro | $499/month; $416.58/month billed yearly ($4999/year) | Unlimited databases; 250 Billion rows read/month; 250 Million rows written/month; 100 GB syncs/month; 90-day PITR; audit retention 30 days. | Annual invoice $4999; stated effective monthly $416.58. Actual monthly subscription is base.amount; annual commitment not assumed. [source](https://turso.tech/pricing.md) |
| Enterprise | Custom |  | Contact sales; dedicated infrastructure, unlimited usage, BYOC and 24x7 priority support. Table lists Pro baseline quotas; prose promises unlimited/custom usage, so do not treat 50GB as hard Enterprise capacity. [source](https://turso.tech/pricing.md) |

- Card required: No
- Source: https://turso.tech/pricing.md

## Website design

Desktop public website · assessed 2026-10-15

Complete assessment.

Dark, mint-accented developer presentation: oversized sans-serif marketing headings, fine grid rules and code-led landing imagery; pricing retains the same spacious visual system, while documentation uses a denser three-column reading layout.

- Styles: Swiss-inspired, Corporate
- Landing page: captured
- Pricing: captured
- Docs: captured

## Runtime

- **GPU & accelerators**: No — "Managed database, not GPU compute; feature matrix na." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud) (confidence: high)
- **BYOC (Bring your own cloud)**: Enterprise AWS BYOC [source](https://turso.tech/pricing.md)
- **Secrets management**: No — "Do not count scoped DB tokens/BYOK encryption as a general first-class secret storage/injection service. Local encrypted-vault guide is a recipe, not managed Cloud vault." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/guides/secrets-vault.md) (confidence: medium)
- **Storage options**: Diskless multi-tenant architecture; local disks cache data backed by S3 and S3-Express [source](https://docs.turso.tech/cloud/durability.md)
- **Supported workloads**: per-agent-databases, per-tenant-databases, offline-first-apps, embedded-replica-sync, vector-search-rag, multi-tenant-saas — "Per-agent/tenant SQLite-compatible databases, local-first embedded replica sync and vector retrieval; no arbitrary user-code/agent execution." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud) (confidence: high)
- **Persistence**: Durable managed databases backed by S3/S3-Express [source](https://docs.turso.tech/cloud/durability.md)
- **Data jurisdiction**: aws-us-east-1 (Virginia, United States), aws-us-east-2 (Ohio, United States), aws-us-west-2 (Oregon, United States), aws-ca-central-1 (Central, Canada), aws-sa-east-1 (São Paulo, Brazil), aws-eu-west-1 (Dublin, Ireland), aws-eu-north-1 (Stockholm, Sweden), aws-ap-south-1 (Mumbai, India), aws-ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo, Japan), aws-ap-southeast-2 (Sydney, Australia) — "Turso Cloud now runs in ten AWS regions across four continents." [source](https://turso.tech/blog/turso-cloud-new-regions) (confidence: high)
- **Resource limits & quotas**: Free: 100 databases; 500 Million rows read/month; 10 Million rows written/month; 3 GB syncs/month; 1-day PITR; audit retention None days. | Developer: Unlimited databases; 2.5 Billion rows read/month; 25 Million rows written/month; 10 GB syncs/month; 10-day PITR; audit retention 3 days. | Scaler: Unlimited databases; 100 Billion rows read/month; 100 Million rows written/month; 24 GB syncs/month; 30-day PITR; audit retention 14 days. | Pro: Unlimited databases; 250 Billion rows read/month; 250 Million rows written/month; 100 GB syncs/month; 90-day PITR; audit retention 30 days. | Enterprise: Contact sales; dedicated infrastructure, unlimited usage, BYOC and 24x7 priority support. Table lists Pro baseline quotas; prose promises unlimited/custom usage, so do not treat 50GB as hard Enterprise capacity. [source](https://turso.tech/pricing.md)
- **SDK languages**: typescript, javascript, python, go, rust, php, ruby, kotlin, swift, c, dart [source](https://docs.turso.tech/llms.txt)
- **Network & egress controls**: No — "Incoming database IP/CIDR/VPC allow rules are not outbound egress policy." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/cloud/allow-rules.md) (confidence: medium)
- **Snapshots & forks**: No [source](https://docs.turso.tech/features/branching.md)
- **Deployment methods**: cli, api, sdk, mcp, dashboard [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud)
- **Isolation**: Not disclosed — "Managed data layer exposes no user-code execution boundary. Diskless multi-tenant DB architecture is disclosed, but no actual VM/container isolation substrate guarantee. Do not infer shared process from generic sqld README." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/cloud/durability.md) (confidence: high)

## Capabilities

### AI & agents

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agent skills | Supported | "`skills/turso/SKILL.md` — guidance for the agent on the Turso ecosystem" [source](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tursodatabase/turso-mcp/main/codex/README.md) |
| AI app builder | Not supported | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Autonomous QA agent | Not supported | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Built-in coding agent | Not supported | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| BYOK for LLMs | Not supported | "# BYOK Encryption" [source](https://docs.turso.tech/cloud/encryption.md) |
| Credential-injection proxy | Not supported | "The injection and scrubbing happen in application code, not the database:" [source](https://docs.turso.tech/guides/secrets-vault.md) |
| LLM gateway | Not supported | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| MCP client | Not supported | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| MCP-server hosting | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| MCP server | Supported | "server at **`https://mcp.turso.ai/mcp`**." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/integrations/mcp.md) |
| Model inference API (first-party) | Not supported | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Preinstalled coding agent | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |

### Networking & delivery

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automatic HTTPS | Supported | "curl https://<database_name>-<organization_slug>.aws-us-east-1.turso.io" [source](https://docs.turso.tech/cloud/private-endpoints.md) |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Direct public IPv6 | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Edge KV store | Not supported | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Egress controls | Not supported | "Restrict database access to specific IP addresses, CIDR ranges, or AWS VPC endpoints." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/cloud/allow-rules.md) |
| Email send / receive | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Public preview URLs | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Private networking | Supported | "Set up an AWS VPC endpoint to securely access Turso databases through AWS PrivateLink, keeping all traffic within AWS's private network." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/cloud/private-endpoints.md) |
| Built-in reverse proxy | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |

### Organisation & security

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Built-in auth | Partially supported | "Fine-grained tokens scoped by database, table, action, and expiration. Read-only, write, or custom permissions." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| BYOC | Partially supported | "- **BYOC Deployment:** Yes" [source](https://turso.tech/pricing.md) |
| Deploy into customers' VPCs | Not supported | "- **BYOC Deployment:** Yes" [source](https://turso.tech/pricing.md) |
| Secrets management | Not supported | "The injection and scrubbing happen in application code, not the database:" [source](https://docs.turso.tech/guides/secrets-vault.md) |
| Self-host / OSS core | Supported | "This project is licensed under the MIT license." [source](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tursodatabase/libsql/main/libsql-server/README.md) |
| Sharing | Not supported | "You will need to [create a new token](/cli/db/tokens/create) (or use a group token) to connect to the new database." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/features/branching.md) |
| SSO / SAML | Partially supported | "- **SSO:** Yes" [source](https://turso.tech/pricing.md) |
| Teams | Partially supported | "- **Teams:** Yes" [source](https://turso.tech/pricing.md) |
| Workload identity | Not supported | "AgentID supplies the authenticated subject, verified inbox identity, and owner information." [source](https://turso.tech/blog/giving-agents-their-own-turso-accounts-with-agentid) |

### Developer access

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CLI | Supported | "You can opt out of this behaviour by passing the `--headless` flag with operations:" [source](https://docs.turso.tech/cli/headless-mode.md) |
| E2B-compatible API | Not supported | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Filesystem API | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Git deploy | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| HTTP data API | Supported | "# Turso Quickstart (SQL over HTTP)" [source](https://docs.turso.tech/sdk/http/quickstart.md) |
| OpenAPI spec | Supported | ""openapi": "3.0.1"" [source](https://docs.turso.tech/api-reference/openapi.json) |
| Private container registry | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Public API | Supported | "Programmatically manage databases, groups, organizations, and tokens with the Turso Platform API." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/api-reference/introduction.md) |
| SDK | Supported | "[Turso Quickstart (TypeScript)](https://docs.turso.tech/sdk/ts/quickstart.md)" [source](https://docs.turso.tech/llms.txt) |
| SSH access | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |

### Compute & storage

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cloud-init / ignition config | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Desktop / computer-use sandbox | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| GPU compute | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Live-state (memory) snapshots | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Multi-region | Supported | "Turso Cloud now runs in ten AWS regions across four continents." [source](https://turso.tech/blog/turso-cloud-new-regions) |
| Object storage | Not supported | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Persistent disk | Supported | "Commits are only acknowledged once data is safely stored in either S3 or S3-express." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/cloud/durability.md) |
| Sandbox templates / custom images | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Scale to zero | Not supported | "Compute nodes can come and go at any time, and local disks act as a local cache." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/cloud/durability.md) |
| Selectable isolation runtime | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Snapshots / forking | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |

### Data

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Database branching | Supported | "A branch is a separate database instance that is created from an existing database." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/features/branching.md) |
| Ephemeral instant DB (no-signup) | Not supported | "Welcome to Turso Cloud! Get started in minutes." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/quickstart.md) |
| First-party database | Supported | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Vector search | Supported | "libSQL is production-ready, fully backwards compatible with SQLite, and adds features like native vector search." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/libsql.md) |

### Platform & operations

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Managed CI/CD runners | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Built-in observability | Supported | "Monitor performance and usage across databases." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Preview environments | Not applicable | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Scheduled tasks | Not supported | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Project template marketplace | Not supported | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |
| Durable workflows | Not supported | "Turso Cloud is a fully managed database platform, designed to scale from prototype to production." [source](https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud.md) |

## Agent readiness

### Read: 8.5 of 11 signals present

8.5/11 signals (6 full, 5 partial)

- Llms txt: pass — "https://turso.tech/llms.txt — # Turso Substantive overview links docs, pricing and API/MCP."
- Llms full txt: pass — "https://docs.turso.tech/llms-full.txt — # Turso 998326-byte comprehensive docs snapshot retained as bounded POINTER; apex 18087-byte overview additionally retained."
- Robots AI policy: partial — "https://turso.tech/robots.txt — User-agent: * Disallow: /api.turso.tech/ Disallow: /app/ Disallow: /turso-soc2.pdf Allow: / No named major AI user agents: wildcard/default allow earns HALF, not full under rubric."
- JSON LD: partial — "https://turso.tech/ — "@type":"Organization" Organization legalName Turso, Inc; no rich Product/SoftwareApplication offers."
- Sitemap: pass — "https://turso.tech/sitemap.xml — <urlset Non-trivial 90379-byte XML sitemap."
- Meta quality: pass — "https://turso.tech/ — Turso - Millions of Databases. One Architecture. Descriptive title/description and OG title/description present."
- Markdown negotiation: pass — "https://docs.turso.tech/turso-cloud — # Turso Cloud Documentation Accept: text/markdown returns text/markdown on landing (1677 bytes) and docs (11262 bytes)."
- Content efficiency: partial — "https://turso.tech/ — HTML: 152745 bytes; visible-text UTF-8 bytes excluding script/style: 7618; ratio 0.04987397. Measured 4.9874%, within rubric 1–5% band; near threshold but do not claim >5% from mere SSR presence."
- Docs discoverable: partial — "https://turso.tech/ — Resources Initial header has Resources dropdown, not directly exposed docs link. First docs links are body/footer; peer bounded design capture did not open submenu. Do not claim full without stronger evidence."
- Pricing machine readable: pass — "https://turso.tech/pricing.md — | Monthly Price | $0 | $5.99 | $29 | $499 | Custom | Structured markdown tiers, annual/monthly billing, usage and overage tables."
- Anti bot: partial — "https://trust.turso.tech/ — Initial direct GET trust.turso.tech returned 403; foxcrawl render returned full trust-center content with exit 0. Main public pages/docs all 200 and unchallenged; trust access needed rendered retry. No unresolved scan issue."

### Drive: 8 of 11 signals present

8/11 signals (7 full, 2 partial)

- Public API: pass — "https://docs.turso.tech/api-reference/introduction.md — Programmatically manage databases, groups, organizations, and tokens with the Turso Platform API."
- Openapi spec: pass — "https://docs.turso.tech/api-reference/openapi.json — "openapi": "3.0.1" Parsed JSON; 128033 bytes; docs and apex copies."
- MCP server: pass — "https://docs.turso.tech/integrations/mcp.md — server at **`https://mcp.turso.ai/mcp`**. Hosted Cloud control+SQL MCP with OAuth; machine-discovery manifest also retained."
- SDK packages: pass — "https://docs.turso.tech/llms.txt — [Turso Quickstart (TypeScript)](https://docs.turso.tech/sdk/ts/quickstart.md) Multiple official SDK languages documented."
- Auth docs: pass — "https://docs.turso.tech/api-reference/authentication.md — The Turso API uses API tokens to authenticate requests. Organization/group scoped tokens, explicit scope list and lifecycle, bearer auth; SQL-token permissions separate."
- Agent self serve creds: pass — "https://docs.turso.tech/api-reference/tokens/create.md — # Create API Token Programmatic issuance via API and CLI; AgentID account self-signup publicly documented without human-in-loop, not behaviorally tested."
- Webhooks: fail — "https://docs.turso.tech/llms.txt — # Turso No hosted webhook docs found in complete docs index/full text or Platform API; AgentMail external webhooks do not count."
- CLI tool: pass — "https://docs.turso.tech/cli/headless-mode.md — turso auth login --headless"
- Error model: partial — "https://docs.turso.tech/api-reference/response-codes.md — The Turso API will respond with an HTTP status code, and in the event of an error, return an error message in the response body. HTTP 401/402/403/409 documented; no substantive uniform JSON error schema on this page. Anonymous /locations returned {"error":"token contains an invalid number of segments"}, a single observation not a complete contract."
- Rate limit docs: fail — "https://docs.turso.tech/llms.txt — # Turso No rate-limit or Retry-After documentation found in full docs. Billing quotas are not API request rates."
- Agent config: partial — "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tursodatabase/turso-mcp/main/codex/README.md — `skills/turso/SKILL.md` — guidance for the agent on the Turso ecosystem One installable skill/config surface. /agents.md and /.well-known/agent 404; MCP manifest is MCP discovery, not a second generic agent-configuration surface."

## Coding harnesses

- Claude Code (Anthropic) — "<Tab title="Claude Code">" [source](https://docs.turso.tech/integrations/mcp.md)
- Codex CLI (OpenAI) — "<Tab title="Codex">" [source](https://docs.turso.tech/integrations/mcp.md)
- Cursor (Anysphere) — "<Tab title="Cursor">" [source](https://docs.turso.tech/integrations/mcp.md)

## Compliance & regions

- SOC 2 Type II: certified (scope: hosted) — "SOC 2 Type II" [source](https://turso.tech/)
- HIPAA: enterprise-only (scope: hosted) — "HIPAA" [source](https://trust.turso.tech/)
- GDPR: self-attested (scope: hosted) — "SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA-ready" [source](https://turso.tech/)
- Regions: aws-us-east-1 (Virginia, United States), aws-us-east-2 (Ohio, United States), aws-us-west-2 (Oregon, United States), aws-ca-central-1 (Central, Canada), aws-sa-east-1 (São Paulo, Brazil), aws-eu-west-1 (Dublin, Ireland), aws-eu-north-1 (Stockholm, Sweden), aws-ap-south-1 (Mumbai, India), aws-ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo, Japan), aws-ap-southeast-2 (Sydney, Australia)
- Regions note: Turso Cloud now runs in ten AWS regions across four continents. OpenAPI /locations example stale at six regions. Actual anonymous /v1/locations returns 401; use explicit Oct 1 first-party ten-region announcement, no authenticated call.

## Open source

- Repository: https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql
- License: MIT
- Stars: 17272
- Forks: 544
- Self-host methods: docker, binary, source-build, package-manager

## Company & presence

- Headquarters: San Francisco-based, globally distributed remote company
- Privacy policy: https://turso.tech/privacy-policy
- Terms of service: https://turso.tech/terms-of-use
- GitHub: https://github.com/tursodatabase
- X: https://x.com/tursodatabase
- Discord: https://tur.so/discord
- Blog: https://turso.tech/blog
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/turso
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tursodatabase

## Nearby in the atlas

- [Neon](/products/neon.md)
- [Upstash Redis](/products/upstash.md)

## Method

Facts come from the product's own public pages. Each claim carries its evidence: a quote and the page it came from. We count capabilities rather than grade products, and "Not assessed" means we have not checked, never that the product lacks it.