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The 10-day archive clock is from Turso's CLI reference, read the same day","evidence":[{"url":"https://turso.tech/pricing","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"Free column: 100 databases, 5GB storage, 500 Million rows read, 10 Million rows written, 3GB sync, 1 day audit logs; Developer USD 4.99 gives unlimited databases and 9GB"},{"url":"https://docs.turso.tech/cli/group/unarchive","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Databases get archived after 10 days of inactivity for users on a free plan'; the unarchive command restores one"},{"url":"https://docs.turso.tech/api-reference/groups/unarchive","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the platform API exposes a group unarchive endpoint, so the archive state is reachable programmatically and not only through the CLI"},{"url":"probe:https://api.turso.tech/v1/organizations","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"an unauthenticated GET returns 401 with 'token contains an invalid number of segments', proving the platform API exists and is token-authenticated"}],"verdict":"qualifies","verified_at":"2026-10-22T03:05:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 0.75/GB beyond 9 GB on Developer","notes":"The 500-database and 9-GB figures in circulation are the Developer plan, not Free. The 5 GB is a total, so 100 databases average 50 MB each. The binding constraint is not either number: it is the 10-day archive, which a quarterly job meets first and which nothing on the pricing page states.","binding_note":"10 days of inactivity archives the database on the free plan, so a job that runs less often than that finds the database unavailable. 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