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Supabase vs Turso

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of Supabase and Turso built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Updated 21 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose Supabase if…

Teams who want Postgres plus auth, storage and generated APIs from one vendor on a fixed monthly bill, and who would otherwise assemble those pieces themselves.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Turso if…

Applications that want a database per tenant or per user — 100 databases on the free plan and unlimited above it make that a shape you can actually build.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • Supabase: You want only a database. Much of the $25 covers a platform you may not use, and free projects are paused after a week of inactivity, which is not the same as scaling to zero.
  • Turso: It is SQLite, not Postgres: the metered units are rows read and written rather than compute, and the extension ecosystem you may be relying on is not there.

5 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionSupabaseTurso
Pricing
Free tierYesYes
Entry paid plan
$25/month for the Pro plan, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits; additional projects from $10/mo
$4.99/month for Developer, the cheapest paid plan. Scaler is $24.92 and Pro $416.58.
Pricing modelFixed monthly plan per organisation plus per-project compute, billed hourly by instance sizePer database, metered on rows rather than compute time: 500 million rows read and 10 million written a month on the free plan, 2.5 billion and 25 million on Developer, with overage at $1 per billion rows read and $1 per million written.
Limits
Storage (entry plan)
8 GB disk per project on the Pro plan; 500 MB on Free
9 GB on Developer, then $0.75 per GB. The free plan includes 5 GB; Scaler is 24 GB at $0.50 and Pro 50 GB at $0.45.
Data
EnginePostgreSQLSQLite, via libSQL — Turso's own fork. Not Postgres or MySQL, so the query surface and the client libraries differ from every other database on this site.
Database branchingSupportedSupported
Point-in-time recoveryPoint-in-time recovery is a paid add-on on Pro, Team and Enterprise, and needs at least a Small compute add-on alongside it. Worst-case recovery point is 2 minutes. Without it, restores go back only to a daily backup.10 days on Developer. 1 day on the free plan, 30 days on Scaler and 90 days on Pro.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Entry paid plan

Supabase
$25/month for the Pro plan, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits; additional projects from $10/mo
Turso
$4.99/month for Developer, the cheapest paid plan. Scaler is $24.92 and Pro $416.58.
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing & Fees — Supabase ↗

    “$25/month [...] First project included. Additional projects from $10/mo. [...] Paid plans include $10/mo in compute credits, enough to cover one Micro instance.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official pricing

  • Pricing — Turso ↗

    “Developer $ 4.99 /month Get Developer Scaler $ 24.92 /month Get Scaler Pro $ 416.58 /month”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

Pricing model

Supabase
Fixed monthly plan per organisation plus per-project compute, billed hourly by instance size
Turso
Per database, metered on rows rather than compute time: 500 million rows read and 10 million written a month on the free plan, 2.5 billion and 25 million on Developer, with overage at $1 per billion rows read and $1 per million written.
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing & Fees — Supabase ↗

    “First project included. Additional projects from $10/mo. [...] Paid plans include $10/mo in compute credits, enough to cover one Micro instance.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official pricing

  • Pricing — Turso ↗

    “Monthly Rows Read Free 500 Million Developer 2.5 Billion + $1 / Billion Scaler 100 Billion + $0.80 / Billion [...] Monthly Rows Written Free 10 Million Developer 25 Million + $1 / Million”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

Storage (entry plan)

Supabase

8 GB disk per project on the Pro plan; 500 MB on Free

Turso

9 GB on Developer, then $0.75 per GB. The free plan includes 5 GB; Scaler is 24 GB at $0.50 and Pro 50 GB at $0.45.

Sources (2) →

Engine

Supabase
PostgreSQL
Turso
SQLite, via libSQL — Turso's own fork. Not Postgres or MySQL, so the query surface and the client libraries differ from every other database on this site.
Sources (2) →
  • Connect to your database — Supabase Docs ↗

    “The session mode connection string connects to your Postgres instance via the Shared Pooler (Supavisor).”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official docs

  • Pricing — Turso ↗

    “Embedded Replicas Database Branching Backups & Recovery Platform API Turso Database Quickstart”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official site

Point-in-time recovery

Supabase
Point-in-time recovery is a paid add-on on Pro, Team and Enterprise, and needs at least a Small compute add-on alongside it. Worst-case recovery point is 2 minutes. Without it, restores go back only to a daily backup.
Turso
10 days on Developer. 1 day on the free plan, 30 days on Scaler and 90 days on Pro.
Sources (2) →
  • Database Backups — Supabase Docs ↗

    “Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) allows you to back up a project at shorter intervals, giving you the option to restore to any chosen point with up to seconds of granularity. [...] Pro, Team and Enterprise Plan projects can enable PITR as an add-on. Projects that want to use PITR must also use at least a Small compute add-on to ensure smooth functioning. [...] in the worst case scenario, PITR achieves a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of two minutes.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official docs

  • Pricing — Turso ↗

    “Point-In-Time Restore Free 1 day Developer 10 days Scaler 30 days Pro 90 days”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.

Egress over allowanceSupabase: $0.09 per GB for uncached egress and $0.03 per GB for cached, charged only above the plan's quota. Egress restrictions clear at the next billing cycle, or immediately on upgrading or disabling the spend cap.
Included bandwidthSupabase: 250 GB uncached and 250 GB cached egress a month on Pro and Team, pooled across Database, Auth, Storage and every other service as one Unified Egress Quota
Managed connection poolingSupabase: Supported
RegionsSupabase: 17 specific AWS regions across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America, plus broader 'general region' groupings that place the project on an available AWS region within an area. General regions do not support read replicas or API management.
Connection limitSupabase: 60 direct and 200 pooled connections on the Micro instance included with Pro; both scale with instance size
When idleSupabase: Free projects are paused after one week of inactivity and must be restored manually; paid projects are not paused
Read replicasSupabase: Supported
Backup retentionSupabase: Daily backups: 7 days on Pro, 14 days on Team, up to 30 days on Enterprise. Free projects get no automatic backups at all — Supabase tells free users to export their own data with the CLI.
SOC 2Supabase: SOC 2 Type 2 compliant; report available to Enterprise and Team customers via the dashboard.
ISO 27001Supabase: ISO 27001 certified; certificate available to Enterprise and Team customers via the dashboard.
HIPAASupabase: HIPAA compliant; customers may store PHI after signing a BAA and meeting shared-responsibility obligations.
GDPR / data residencySupabase: Projects hosted in EU regions keep primary database data in-region; a DPA is available.
Encryption at restSupabase: AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit; sensitive tokens/keys get application-level encryption before storage.
Role-based access controlSupabase: Organization members can be granted access to specific resources, including read-only and billing-only roles.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: Supabase or Turso?

Supabase: $25/month for the Pro plan, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits; additional projects from $10/mo

Turso: $4.99/month for Developer, the cheapest paid plan. Scaler is $24.92 and Pro $416.58.

Storage (entry plan): Supabase or Turso?

Supabase: 8 GB disk per project on the Pro plan; 500 MB on Free

Turso: 9 GB on Developer, then $0.75 per GB. The free plan includes 5 GB; Scaler is 24 GB at $0.50 and Pro 50 GB at $0.45.

Should I choose Supabase or Turso?

Pick Supabase if Teams who want Postgres plus auth, storage and generated APIs from one vendor on a fixed monthly bill, and who would otherwise assemble those pieces themselves.

Pick Turso if Applications that want a database per tenant or per user — 100 databases on the free plan and unlimited above it make that a shape you can actually build.

Provider pages

SupabaseManaged Postgres bundled with auth, storage, edge functions and auto-generated APIs, billed per project with a fixed monthly plan.TursoManaged SQLite built on libSQL, priced per database with rows read and written as the metered units.

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