# Turbopuffer vs Vald

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Turbopuffer

| Attribute | Turbopuffer | Vald |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 70 (61% (medium)) | 48.4 (36% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 18 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 1 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 1,718 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | Vald is a cloud-native vector search platform running on Kubernetes that uses NGT for efficient nearest-neighbor search. It provides automatic indexing and backups, index replication across distributed agents, and horizontal scaling to handle billions of vectors. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"consistency":"tunable","storage_tier":"tiered","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"proprietary","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","metadata_filtering":"pre_filter"}` | `{"ann_index":"NGT","deployment":"self_hosted","storage_tier":"disk_backed","product_class":"dedicated_dbms","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed"}` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"CA","primaryMarkets":["US","CA"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Launch","summary":"$16/month minimum, usage-based overage","commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":16,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Entry-level plan with usage-based billing","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Scale","features":["IP allowlisting","SSO"],"description":"Mid-tier plan with advanced security features","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["Customer managed encryption","Private networking","IP allowlisting","SSO","Privileged access management","Single-tenancy clusters","BYOC"],"description":"Custom enterprise deployment with advanced security and compliance","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Namespace pinning"}],"summary":"From $16/month. Usage-based with per-TB-queried pricing ($1/PB base rate with volume discounts up to 96%).","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://turbopuffer.com/docs/pricing-log","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T20:43:39.812Z","startingPrice":{"amount":16,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | no | - |
| pricing.model | commercial | - |
| pricing.price_level | mid | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 51 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.8.0","date":"2026-08-26T06:00:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.17","date":"2025-07-04T09:40:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.16","date":"2024-12-24T06:46:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.15","date":"2024-12-05T04:29:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.14","date":"2024-10-11T20:54:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.13","date":"2024-08-06T14:18:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.12","date":"2024-02-21T10:31:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.11","date":"2024-02-15T07:32:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.10","date":"2023-12-20T04:59:57Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.9","date":"2023-12-06T06:16:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.8","date":"2023-09-15T05:22:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.7","date":"2023-09-14T07:44:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.6","date":"2023-06-15T06:18:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.5","date":"2023-04-25T02:42:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.4","date":"2023-03-29T08:50:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.3","date":"2023-03-13T03:50:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.2","date":"2023-03-03T06:49:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.1","date":"2023-02-09T05:42:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.0","date":"2023-01-24T04:14:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.6.3","date":"2022-10-19T07:07:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.6.3"}]` |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.95 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.6 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fvdaas%2Fvald&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | Turbopuffer | Vald |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed | Self-hosted |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | ✓ | - |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | - | NGT |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | - | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Metadata filtering | Pre-filter | - |
| Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion) | ✓ | - |
| Built-in BM25 / lexical | ✓ | - |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Quantization | - | - |
| On-disk vs in-memory | Tiered | Disk-backed |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants) | ✓ | - |
| Horizontal scale | Sharded / distributed | Sharded / distributed |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | Tunable | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | - |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS | Dedicated DBMS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:32:30.668Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*