Turso and Neon compare per-agent databases

turso.tech7 min read

Neon and Turso both offer per-agent database provisioning, but they differ significantly in architecture and pricing models. Neon provides a Postgres project with separate compute per agent that suspends after inactivity, whereas Turso uses a lightweight, file-based SQLite database on a shared cloud server that is priced purely by storage and reads and writes. The author compares their approaches to handling bursty agent workloads, local synchronization, bring-your-own-key encryption, and integration with Supabase. Open article →