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Comparison

Turbopuffer vs Upstash

On the evidence we track, Upstash leads this comparison with a composite score of 73/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Turbopuffer full profile →Upstash full profile →
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Turbopuffer68
★Upstash73
Score
vioscaleAI score
Turbopuffer68 / 100medium · 61%
Upstash73 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tier
Turbopuffer✗
Upstash✓
Model
Turbopuffercommercial
Upstashfreemium
Price level
Turbopuffermid
Upstashlow
Starting price
Turbopuffer$16
Upstash$5
Transparent
Turbopuffer✓
Upstash✓
Integrations
Count
Turbopuffer–
Upstash6
Security
Disclosure policy
Turbopuffer✓
Upstash✓
Gdpr
Turbopuffer✓
Upstash✓
Hipaa
Turbopuffer✓
Upstash✓
Soc2
Turbopuffer✓
Upstash✓
Reliability
Sla pct
Turbopuffer99.95
Upstash99.99
Status page
Turbopuffer✓
Upstash✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Turbopuffer6 items
Upstash7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for vector databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
TurbopufferManaged
UpstashManaged
Serverless / consumption pricing
Turbopuffer✓
Upstash✓
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
TurbopufferSPFresh (centroid-based)
UpstashHNSW
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
Turbopuffer-
Upstashcosine
Query
Metadata filtering
TurbopufferPre-filter
UpstashPre-filter
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
Turbopuffer✓
Upstash✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical
Turbopuffer✓
Upstash✓
Storage
Quantization
Turbopuffer-
Upstash-
On-disk vs in-memory
TurbopufferTiered
Upstashpersistent
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
Turbopuffer✓
Upstash✓
Horizontal scale
TurbopufferSharded / distributed
UpstashSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
TurbopufferTunable
UpstashStrong
Licensing
Licence class
TurbopufferProprietary
UpstashProprietary
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
TurbopufferDedicated DBMS
UpstashDedicated DBMS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Turbopuffer

Vector and full-text search database built on object storage, offering 10x cheaper cost and extreme scalability for AI applications, semantic search, and recommendation systems.

Independently observed

Upstash

Leader

A cloud platform offering serverless Redis, vector databases, message queues, and workflow orchestration designed for developers building serverless applications, with usage-based and fixed-rate pricing options.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Turbopuffer

from $16/moHybrid

From $16/month (Launch plan minimum) with consumption-based billing

  • Launch$16/month minimum with usage-based overage
as of verify ↗

Upstash

Leader
from $5/moHybridFree tier

Free tier (30 MB), Essentials from $5/month, Pro from $200/month

  • FreeFree
    • No replication
    • Single database
    • Limited throughput
  • Essentials$5/month (250 MB) to $216/month (12 GB)
    • Predefined database sizes (250 MB to 12 GB)
    • Bandwidth and throughput limits per tier
    • Optional high availability
    • Flex tier with reduced throughput
  • Pro$200/month minimum + $0.014/hour usage-based billing
    • Unlimited memory
    • Dedicated VPC infrastructure
    • Multiple databases per subscription
    • Active-Active multi-region writes
    • Auto-tiering
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Turbopuffer✓
Upstash✓
CLI
Turbopuffer✓
Upstash✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Turbopuffer✓
Upstash✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Turbopuffer

Not documented yet.

Upstash

Leader
13 total
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Auth0
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Debezium
  • JDBC
  • FluentBit
  • Drizzle
  • Vercel AI SDK
  • Redis protocol clients
  • Vercel
  • Aiven
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Turbopuffer or Upstash: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.