Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Turso
Turso clearly comes out ahead of SurrealDB on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. Both offer a free tier. Turso's paid plans start at $4.99/mo.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | saas tool | hybrid |
| Company | Turso | SurrealDB Ltd. |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | - |
| Integration | - | - |
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | DevelopmentData & Analytics | DevelopmentData & Analytics |
| Categories | database | database |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
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| Feature | turso | surrealdb |
|---|---|---|
| Community Support | ||
| 1 Day Point-In-Time Restore | ||
| Additional Support Options | ||
| 10 Days Point-In-Time Restore | ||
| Cloud Rbac And Abac | ||
| 10 Million Monthly Rows Written | ||
| Daily Automated Backups | ||
| 10,000 + $0.025 / Active Db | ||
| Fault Tolerant Deployments | ||
| 100 Billion + $0.80 / Billion Rows Read | ||
| Horizontal Scalability | ||
| 100 Databases | ||
| Limited Compute Node Size | ||
| 100 Million + $0.80 / Million Rows Written | ||
| Single-Tenant Storage | ||
| 100 Monthly Active Databases | ||
| Social Authentication | ||
| 100Gb + $0.15 / Gb Syncs | ||
| Standard Support | ||
| 10Gb + $0.35 / Gb Syncs | ||
| Surreal Sidekick Ai Copilot | ||
| 14 Day Retention Audit Logs | ||
| Team Collaboration | ||
| 2,500 + $0.05 / Active Db | ||
| Vertical Scalability | ||
| 2.5 Billion + $1 / Billion Rows Read | ||
| 24Gb + $0.25 / Gb Syncs | ||
| 24Gb + $0.50 / Gb Storage | ||
| 25 Million + $1 / Million Rows Written | ||
| 250 Billion + $0.75 / Billion Rows Read |
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Dashes mean the feature isn't listed in our data. The tool may still support it.
On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, Turso comes out ahead overall, though SurrealDB can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
Both Turso and SurrealDB offer a free tier.
Turso scores higher on pricing value in Staquest's analysis. It is the highest-weighted dimension in this comparison.
Turso is open source. The feature comparison and dimension scores above cover the full breakdown.
