Pick Neon if
builders who will stay on Free $0 (100 CU-hours/project, 1 GB, 10 branches), then move to Launch (pay-as-you-go, $0.106/CU-hour, $0.35/GB-month) when writes or idle-always-on matter.
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Our take
Pick Neon if builders who will stay on Free $0 (100 CU-hours/project, 1 GB, 10 branches), then move to Launch (pay-as-you-go, $0.106/CU-hour, $0.35/GB-month) when writes or idle-always-on matter. Pick Turso if app teams who will stay on Free at $0 / month (100 databases, 5 GB, 500M row reads) while they open a first Query, then buy Developer at $5.99 / month ($4.99 yearly) or Scaler at $29 / month ($24.92 yearly).
Best for
Neon Postgres metered in CU-hours and GB
Turso LibSQL rows you inspect at $0
Free plan
Neon $0 · 100 projects. 10 branches/project. 100 CU-hours/project. Autoscaling up to 2 CU. Scale-to-zero after 5 min (cannot disable). 1 GB/project Postgres, 20 GB account. 5 GB egress/project. 6-hour history. 1 snapshot. Auth 60k MAU. 5 GB object storage. Functions: 10 active / 400 waiting Capacity-Hours, 1M invocations. Hitting CU or egress suspends compute until next cycle; storage cap blocks writes
Turso $0 · / month. No credit card. 100 databases. 5 GB storage. 500 million row reads / month. 10 million writes. 3 GB syncs. 1-day PITR
Lowest paid
Neon Launch $0.106
Turso Developer $5.99
Next step up
Neon Scale $0.222
Turso Scaler $29
Coding agent
Neon Branching
Turso
Runs where
Neon
Turso Hosted
Watch out
Neon Free suspends when CU-hours or 5 GB egress are gone
Turso Free caps at 100 databases and 5 GB
Last checked
Neon 2026-10-22 · neon.com/pricing
Turso 2026-10-23 · turso.tech/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Turso if
app teams who will stay on Free at $0 / month (100 databases, 5 GB, 500M row reads) while they open a first Query, then buy Developer at $5.99 / month ($4.99 yearly) or Scaler at $29 / month ($24.92 yearly).
Read the Turso page