Turso Has a Free API: The SQLite-Based Database That Gives You Edge Replicas in 35 Locations for $0

Your users in Tokyo wait 200ms for every database query because your Postgres is in us-east-1. A managed database with global replicas costs $500/mo. Turso gives you SQLite at the edge — your data replicated to 35 locations worldwide, with a generous free tier that handles most indie projects. What Turso Actually Does Turso is a distributed database built on libSQL (their open-source fork of SQLite). Each database can have replicas in multiple regions. Reads hit the nearest replica (sub-10ms latency from anywhere), writes go to the primary and propagate to replicas. The magic: it's still SQLite. Your existing SQLite queries, ORMs, and tools work. But now your single-file database has multi-region replication, point-in-time recovery, and an HTTP API you can call from edge functions. Free tier: 500 databases, 9GB storage, 1 billion row reads/month. SDKs for JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, PHP. Open-source client libraries. Quick Start # Install CLI curl -sSfL https://get.tur.so/