Question 1

When will I be billed for my plan?

Accepted Answer

If you are on a paid plan, you will be billed on the first day of each month.

Question 2

Will I be charged if I exceed my plan's usage limits?

Accepted Answer

- Free plan: You will need to upgrade to a paid plan. - Paid plans: Subscriptions after March 19, 2025 have overages enabled by default. If you exceed your plan's usage limits, you will be charged for the overages. - Vegas Blackout: Once per month, before your invoice closes, you can pick any single day and erase its usage from your bill. Use it on the day a runaway query, bot swarm, or other bad day blew up your numbers, and that day's reads, writes, storage, and syncs will not be billed. - Higher usage needs: Contact the team at https://tur.so/turso-enterprise-chat to explore custom Enterprise plan options.

Question 3

If I hit the limit on one metric, am I blocked from using the others?

Accepted Answer

It depends on whether your plan blocks at quota or allows overages. - Free plan, or paid plan with Overages disabled: Yes. Once you exceed the limit on any single metric (storage, rows read, rows written, or syncs), your databases are blocked, even if the other metrics are still well under quota. - Paid plan with Overages enabled: No. You keep consuming your full plan quota across every metric, and at the end of the month you only pay overages for the metric or metrics you went over.

Question 4

How are "rows read" and "rows written" calculated?

Accepted Answer

Rows read and rows written are a proxy for compute. Every row touched while producing a response counts, not just the rows returned to your application. For reads, this means: - A lookup on an unindexed column has to scan the whole table, so it counts as many rows read as the table has. - A lookup that can use an index touches just the matching index entries and rows, often as few as one row read. For writes, this means a single INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE on a table with indexes counts as more than one row written, because each affected index also has to be updated. Adding more indexes makes writes count more. Designing your schema with the right indexes is the most direct way to keep usage low.

Question 5

How are "Embedded Syncs" calculated?

Accepted Answer

Embedded Syncs measure the amount of data, in pages, transferred between Turso Cloud and your local embedded database when syncing changes in either direction.

Question 6

How do I contact Turso if I have additional questions or problems with my bill?

Accepted Answer

There are multiple ways to get in touch with Turso, including Discord and email.

Question 7

Does using Drizzle Studio from the Turso Dashboard incur plan usage?

Accepted Answer

Yes, Drizzle Studio needs to read your data to present it to you, and that counts as rows read. If you use Drizzle Studio to create new data or update existing data, that is counted as rows written.

Question 8

What happens when I enable Overages?

Accepted Answer

If you enable Overages you will automatically be topped up when you exceed usage limits, one increment at a time. While Overages are enabled, you will be charged for any extra usage charges you incur at the end of each month.

Question 9

What happens if I disable Overages?

Accepted Answer

If you have incurred extra usage charges while Overages were enabled, you will be charged for them when you disable Overages. If you are on the Scaler plan you will also be charged a prorated amount of your monthly subscription price at that time, and the remainder of your monthly subscription price will be charged at the end of the month as normal.

Question 10

Do point in time restores cost money?

Accepted Answer

Each point in time restore uses one of your available databases, and consumes your storage quota.

Question 11

Do Database Branches cost money?

Accepted Answer

Each Branch you create uses one of your available databases, and consumes your storage quota.

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