Turbopuffer
Fast vector and full-text search engine built on object storage
- Also known as
- turbopuffer
What is Turbopuffer?
Vector and full-text search database built on object storage, handling 4T+ documents with sub-10ms p50 latency. Designed for AI applications, semantic search, and large-scale similarity retrieval at 10x lower cost than traditional vector databases.
Turbopuffer pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Usage-based pricing with fixed minimums. Launch plan starts at $16/month; metered billing for storage (per GB), writes (per GB), queries (per PB), and namespaces.
launch
- Vector search with >90% recall
- Full-text search (BM25)
- Hybrid search
- Metadata filtering
- Multi-tenancy
- Encryption
- SOC2 compliance
- GDPR-ready
scale
- All launch features
- HIPAA-ready BAA
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Audit Logs
- IP Allowlisting
- Private Slack support
- Business hours support (8-5)
enterprise
Contact sales- All scale features
- Single-tenancy option
- BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud)
- Private networking
- CMEK encryption per namespace
- 24/7 support with SLA
- 99.95% uptime SLA
What Turbopuffer does
The capabilities that matter for vector databases, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment
- Managed
- Serverless / consumption pricing
- ✓
- ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
- -
- Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
- -
- Metadata filtering
- Pre-filter
- Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
- ✓
- Built-in BM25 / lexical
- ✓
- Quantization
- -
- On-disk vs in-memory
- Tiered
- Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
- ✓
- Horizontal scale
- Sharded / distributed
- Consistency
- -
- Licence class
- Proprietary
- Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
- Dedicated DBMS
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Turbopuffer alternatives
Other vector databases we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Turbopuffer, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 67 | 17.00 | 1141.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 55 | 18.00 | 990.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 98 | 10.00 | 975.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 75 | 8.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 6.00 | 300.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"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"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |