Turso Has a Free Edge Database Built on libSQL That Replicates Globally

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Turso is an edge-hosted distributed database based on libSQL (a fork of SQLite). Your data lives close to your users — globally replicated.

What You Get for Free

500 databases — per account
9GB total storage — across all databases
1 billion row reads — per month
25M row writes — per month
Global replication — data at the edge
Embedded replicas — sync to local SQLite

Quick Start

turso db create my-db
turso db tokens create my-db

Query (TypeScript)

import { createClient } from '@libsql/client';

const client = createClient({
  url: 'libsql://my-db-user.turso.io',
  authToken: 'your-token',
});

await client.execute('CREATE TABLE users (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT)');
await client.execute({ sql: 'INSERT INTO users (name) VALUES (?)', args: ['Alice'] });
const result = await client.execute('SELECT * FROM users');