Turso vs Weaviate
Edge SQLite — libSQL at the speed of light
vs. Open-source vector DB with hybrid search + modular embeddings
Pricing tiers
Turso
Free
100 DBs, 5 GB storage, 500M row reads/mo, 10M row writes/mo. No credit card.
Free
Developer
Unlimited DBs, 9 GB storage, 2.5B reads, 25M writes.
$5/mo
Scaler
24 GB storage, 100B reads, 100M writes. Teams + DPA support. Price is annual-billed.
$25/mo
Pro
50 GB storage, 250B reads, 250M writes. Teams, DPA, SSO, BYOK, HIPAA, SOC2, priority support. Annual billed.
$417/mo
Enterprise
White-glove support + unlimited usage + dedicated infra.
Custom
Weaviate
Sandbox (14-day trial)
14-day free trial. Shared cloud cluster. 250 Query Agent req/month.
$0 base (usage-based)
Self-Hosted (OSS)
BSD-3 licensed. Run free on your infra.
$0 base (usage-based)
Flex
From $45/mo pay-as-you-go. Shared HA cluster. 99.5% uptime. 30k Query Agent reqs/mo.
$45/mo
Premium
From $400/mo prepaid. Shared or dedicated. 99.95% uptime. SSO/SAML. Unlimited Query Agent. HIPAA on AWS.
$400/mo
Enterprise
Custom. BYOC / private deployment.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Turso vs sandbox on Weaviate.
| Metric | Turso | Weaviate |
|---|---|---|
| databases | 100 DBs | — |
| row reads month | 500000000 reads/month | — |
| row writes month | 10000000 writes/month | — |
| storage gb | 5 GB | — |
Features
Turso · 11 features
- Branching — Create DB branches from a primary for staging/test envs.
- BYOK Encryption — Bring your own encryption key (Pro+).
- Edge Routing — Requests route automatically to the nearest replica group.
- Embedded Replicas — Client-side local SQLite file that syncs from the primary — reads are <1ms local…
- libSQL — Turso's open-source SQLite fork with HTTP, WebSocket, and multi-writer support.
- libSQL Server (sqld) — Self-hostable server component. Runs libSQL as a service.
- Multi-Database — Create thousands of DBs cheaply — perfect for per-tenant / per-customer isolatio…
- Point-in-Time Restore — Rollback DB to any moment within backup window.
- Scheduled Backups — Automated point-in-time backups.
- SQLite Compatibility — Drop-in SQLite — same SQL dialect, same file format.
- Teams & RBAC — Org-level access control for Scaler+ tiers.
Weaviate · 13 features
- Backups — S3, GCS, Azure Blob backup destinations.
- BYOC — Run managed Weaviate in your own cloud account.
- Compression (PQ/BQ/RQ) — Reduce vector memory footprint by up to 32x.
- Dynamic Indexing — HNSW + flat + dynamic index selection.
- Generative Search — Search + RAG answers in one API call.
- Hybrid Search — Combine BM25 + dense vector search in one query.
- Modular Vectorizers — 60+ plug-in vectorizers + generative AI modules.
- Multi-Tenancy — Per-tenant isolated vector stores in one cluster.
- Query Agent (AI) — Agentic natural-language query generator.
- RBAC — Role-based access control for collections + tenants.
- Replication — Multi-node async + sync replication.
- Self-Host (OSS) — BSD-3 licensed. Docker + k8s Helm.
- Structured Filters — Metadata filters pre + post vector search.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Turso | Weaviate |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Turso CLI | — |
| SDK | go-libsql, @libsql/client, libsql-experimental (Python), libsql-rs, libsql-swift | weaviate-client, weaviate-go-client, weaviate-java-client, weaviate-ts-client |
| REST | libSQL HTTP, Platform API | Weaviate REST API |
| GRAPHQL | — | Weaviate GraphQL |
| MCP | Turso MCP | Weaviate MCP |
| OTHER | libSQL WebSocket, SQLite wire protocol | Weaviate gRPC |
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