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Managed databases · 13 alternatives · Turso iScore 69 (#5/14)

Every managed databases provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Turso's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Turso's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.

Ranked by iScore
  1. SupabaseEntry paid plan: $25/month for Pro, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits — enough to…72#1/14
  2. NeonEntry paid plan: No fixed monthly fee. Launch is usage-based — Neon's own worked example puts typical spen…69#2/14
  3. AivenKind of free offer: Always free vs Free tier69#3/14
  4. TigerDataEntry paid plan: Compute starts at $30/month on Performance, billed hourly, with storage charged separatel…69#4/14
  5. Prisma PostgresKind of free offer: Always free vs Free tier68#6/14
  6. FirebaseEntry paid plan: No plan fee and no stated minimum: Blaze is pay-as-you-go, billed to a linked Cloud Billi…68#7/14
  7. Amazon AuroraKind of free offer: Introductory free tier vs Free tier68#8/14
  8. Amazon RDSKind of free offer: Introductory free tier vs Free tier67#9/14
  9. NileEntry paid plan: $15/month for Pro, which carries a production SLA. Scale is $350/month.67#10/14
  10. PlanetScaleEntry paid plan: $5/month for a single-node Postgres database on network-attached storage; PlanetScale Met…67#11/14
  11. Crunchy BridgeEntry paid plan: $9 a month for Hobby-0 — 2 cores, 512 MB, AWS only. Crunchy says the Hobby tier runs on l…67#12/14
  12. ScaleGridFree tier: No vs Yes · Kind of free offer: Free trial vs Free tier67#13/14
  13. Neo4jEntry paid plan: $65/GB/month (minimum 1GB cluster) on AuraDB Professional, or $0.09/hour ($65.70/month fo…64#14/14

Where Turso stands against these 13

Turso's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.

Free tier
Yes. 8 of the 12 alternatives that document it have one: Aiven, Firebase, Neo4j, Neon, Nile, Prisma Postgres and 2 more.
Entry paid plan
$4.99/month for Developer, the cheapest paid planCheapest of the 9 that document it. Next: Aiven — $5 a month for Developer — one VM, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage, with no choice of cloud or region and no…
Storage (entry plan)
9 GB on Developer, then $0.75 per GB2nd highest of the 5 that document it. Highest: ScaleGrid — 18 GB storage on NANO, the entry row of the pricing calculator for PostgreSQL on DigitalOcean (1 core, 1 GB…
Regions
Six AWS locations in the Platform API's location list: Tokyo (ap-northeast-1), Mumbai (ap-south-1), Ireland…8th highest of the 9 that document it. Highest: Firebase — 43 regional locations across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and…
Point-in-time recovery
10 days on Developer. 1 day on the free plan, 30 days on Scaler and 90 days on ProHighest of the 5 that document it. Next: Firebase — 7 days once point-in-time recovery is enabled; it is off by default and PITR data is billed as storage.

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