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Turso vs CurrencyBeacon

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Turso compared with CurrencyBeacon
DetailTursoCurrencyBeacon
What it doesMillions of Databases. One Architecture. Not given
StageGrowing Established
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inUS Not given
Pricing modelfreemium freemium
PricingNot given Free plan with 5,000 monthly requests, then tiered plans from $10/month (50,000 requests) to $599/month (2,000,000 requests), with yearly billing discounts available.
Key features
  • Per-database encryption
  • Embedded replication
  • Database branching
  • Point-in-time restore
  • BYOC deployment
  • SQLite compatible
  • Distributed databases
  • Vector search
  • REST API with /latest, /convert, /historical, /timeseries endpoints
  • 160+ supported currencies with mid-market rates
  • Historical exchange rates back to 1996
  • MCP server integration for Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor
  • Code samples for 20 programming stacks
  • Sub-100 millisecond response time target
  • Timeseries API for historical range queries
  • Live rate dashboards for popular currency pairs
What makes it different
  • Economics that scale from first database to ten millionth customer
  • Embedded replication unavailable elsewhere
  • Same codebase from local development to production
  • Unified quota for REST API and MCP tool calls, no separate accounts needed
  • Rates sourced from 20+ central banks and institutional data providers
  • Production-ready infrastructure for billing-critical applications
  • Simple API-key authentication with no complex queries or long-term contracts
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)76 no change since last check34 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)3020
Citation Flow (Majestic)4942
Referring domains (Majestic)31502653

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