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Neon vs Turso
Neon offers serverless Postgres, whereas Turso provides SQLite-compatible per-entity databases.
Which to pick
Pick Neon if you want…
- Serverless Postgres with full backend suite
- Serverless Postgres
- Integrations with Better Auth, Databricks or pgBouncer (on Neon's list, not Turso's)
Pick Turso if you want…
- Isolated SQLite databases at scale
- Integrations with TypeScript, Python or Rust (on Turso's list, not Neon's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Neon:Neon provides a serverless Postgres database with built-in auth, object storage, functions and an AI gateway.
- Turso:Turso provides SQLite-compatible databases that can be spun up per user, agent or tenant with built-in replication and encryption.
- Best for
- Neon:Serverless Postgres with full backend suite
- Turso:Isolated SQLite databases at scale
- Who it’s for
- Neon:Developers building apps or agents that need instant, branchable backends.
- Turso:Developers building AI agents, multi-tenant SaaS, or offline-first apps needing isolated databases.
- Pricing
- Neon:Freemium
- Turso:Freemium
- Plans
- Neon:Free $0
- Turso:Free $0/month · Developer $4.99/month per month · Scaler $24.92/month per month · Pro $416.58/month per month
- Works with
- Neon:Better Auth, Databricks, pgBouncer
- Turso:TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, AWS
Neon features
- Serverless Postgres. Lakebase Postgres scales compute and storage independently and auto-scales in real time.
- Managed Auth. Fully-managed Better Auth integration provides free user authentication per database.
- Branchable Storage. S3-compatible object storage and database branches copy-on-write for isolated environments.
- Functions. Serverless functions run close to the database without timeouts.
- AI Gateway. Single API to access frontier and open-source models at cost-based rates.
- Autoscaling & Scale-to-Zero. Compute auto-adjusts to demand and scales to zero when idle, billed per CU-hour.
- High Availability & Read Replicas. Multi-AZ storage and read replicas are included on all plans.
- Extensions Library. Supports Postgres extensions such as pg_vector, PostGIS, TimescaleDB, etc.
Turso features
- Per-entity isolation. Programmatically create thousands to millions of independent databases with hard boundaries.
- Embedded replication. Sync databases between device and cloud with zero-latency local reads and writes.
- Per-database encryption. Customer-held keys protect data at rest for each database.
- BYOC deployment. Deploy Turso on your own cloud (AWS) while keeping the same API.
- Global scalability. SQLite engine runs locally and scales to cloud infrastructure with a single runtime.
- Open-source core. Run the same SQLite-compatible engine on laptop, server or device for free.
Neon vs Turso FAQ
Is Neon or Turso free?+
Neon has a free plan and paid plans. Turso has a free plan; paid plans start at $4.99/month (Developer).
Do Neon and Turso integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Neon lists Better Auth, Databricks and pgBouncer; Turso lists TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go and 1 more.
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