Best Turso Alternatives

Open-source Firebase alternative providing a full backend-as-a-service on PostgreSQL. Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs from your schema, real-time subscriptions, built-in auth with 20+ social providers and Row Level Security, S3-compatible file storage with CDN, and Deno-powered Edge Functions. Visual dashboard with SQL editor and table editor. Supports pgvector for AI apps. Self-hostable or managed with a generous free tier. 75K+ GitHub stars.

Serverless Postgres platform separating storage and compute for branching, autoscaling, read replicas, instant restore, and scale-to-zero workloads. Neon works with standard PostgreSQL clients and ORMs, supports extensions such as pgvector, and sits inside a broader Neon backend platform with Auth, Data API, Functions, Object Storage, and AI Gateway features.

Type-safe SQL query builder for TypeScript that provides auto-completion and compile-time type checking without the abstraction overhead of a traditional ORM. Write queries that map directly to SQL while getting full TypeScript inference from your database schema. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite with migrations, transactions, and raw SQL escape hatches. Lightweight with zero dependencies. Ideal for developers who want SQL control with TypeScript safety. Growing Knex.js alternative.