vioscaleAI
Comparison

Turbopuffer vs Zilliz Cloud

On the evidence we track, Zilliz Cloud leads this comparison with a composite score of 80/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Turbopuffer full profile →Zilliz Cloud full profile →
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Turbopuffer68
★Zilliz Cloud80
Score
vioscaleAI score
Turbopuffer68 / 100medium · 61%
Zilliz Cloud80 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
Turbopuffer✗
Zilliz Cloud✓
Model
Turbopuffercommercial
Zilliz Cloudfreemium
Price level
Turbopuffermid
Zilliz Cloudhigh
Starting price
Turbopuffer$16
Zilliz Cloud$197
Transparent
Turbopuffer✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Integrations
Count
Turbopuffer–
Zilliz Cloud1,000
Security
Certifications
Turbopuffer–
Zilliz CloudSOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001
Disclosure policy
Turbopuffer✓
Zilliz Cloud–
Gdpr
Turbopuffer✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Hipaa
Turbopuffer✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Iso27001
Turbopuffer–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Soc2
Turbopuffer✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Trust center
Turbopuffer–
Zilliz Cloudhttps://zilliz.com/trust-center
Reliability
Sla pct
Turbopuffer99.95
Zilliz Cloud99.95
Status page
Turbopuffer✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Turbopuffer6 items
Zilliz Cloud6 items

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Deployment
TurbopufferManaged
Zilliz CloudManaged
Serverless / consumption pricing
Turbopuffer✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
TurbopufferSPFresh (centroid-based)
Zilliz CloudHNSW, IVF, FLAT (brute-force), SCANN, DiskANN
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
Turbopuffer-
Zilliz Cloudcosine, Euclidean
Query
Metadata filtering
TurbopufferPre-filter
Zilliz CloudPost-filter
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
Turbopuffer✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical
Turbopuffer✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Storage
Quantization
Turbopuffer-
Zilliz Cloud-
On-disk vs in-memory
TurbopufferTiered
Zilliz CloudTiered
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
Turbopuffer✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Horizontal scale
TurbopufferSharded / distributed
Zilliz CloudSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
TurbopufferTunable
Zilliz Cloud-
Licensing
Licence class
TurbopufferProprietary
Zilliz CloudProprietary
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
TurbopufferDedicated DBMS
Zilliz CloudDedicated 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

Zilliz Cloud

Leader

Zilliz Cloud is a managed cloud service built on the open-source Milvus vector database. It handles storage, indexing, and similarity search at scale for unstructured data, supporting vector search, full-text search, and hybrid retrieval for AI and machine learning workloads.

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
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Zilliz Cloud

Leader
from $197/moHybridFree tier30-day trial

Free tier with 5 GB storage. Serverless pricing from $0/month pay-per-query. Dedicated clusters from $197/month. Annual commitments available.

  • FreeFree
    • Community support via Slack
    • Vector search
    • Filtered search
    • Range search
  • ServerlessPay-per-query pricing, system-managed auto-scaling
    • Fully managed vector databases
    • Backup and restore
    • Basic monitoring
    • Built-in encryption for data in transit and at rest
    • Vector search
    • +2 more
  • DedicatedFrom $197/month base, plus $0.126/GB storage, dedicated infrastructure
    • 99.95% uptime SLA
    • SSO (SAML 2.0)
    • Granular RBAC
    • Multi-replica and elastic scaling
    • Global cluster with disaster recovery
    • +9 more
  • BYOCContact sales
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Platform & deployment

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

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

Integrations

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

Turbopuffer

Not documented yet.

Zilliz Cloud

Leader
32 total
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • LangChain
  • Fivetran
  • Google Ads
  • Google Analytics 4
  • Google Search Console
  • Google Sheets
  • Hubspot
  • LinkedIn Ad Analytics
  • Marketo
  • Microsoft Advertising
  • NetSuite SuiteAnalytics
  • Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications
  • Apache SeaTunnel
  • PostgreSQL/Pgvector
  • PyMilvus
  • Claude
  • Prometheus
  • HoneyHive
  • Cohere
  • Haystack
  • FiftyOne
  • +8 more
Independently observed
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Turbopuffer or Zilliz Cloud: 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.

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