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Redis Cloud vs Turbopuffer

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of Redis Cloud and Turbopuffer built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 24 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose Redis Cloud if…

Teams that want Redis from the company that maintains it, with an on-demand hourly Essentials tier cheap enough to run a small production workload without committing to a fixed plan.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Turbopuffer if…

Teams that want vector search billed like storage rather than compute — object-storage-backed pricing tends to undercut memory-resident vector databases at rest, especially for large, cold datasets.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • Redis Cloud: Multi-region active-active replication is needed on a small budget — that's a Pro-tier feature here, where a serverless competitor may price per-region replication into a lower-cost plan.
  • Turbopuffer: The full list of supported similarity metrics matters before committing — that wasn't fully documented in what's sourced here, unlike competitors that publish the complete list.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Redis Cloud alternatives · Turbopuffer alternatives

16 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionRedis CloudTurbopuffer
Pricing
Free tier
Yes
No — Entry plan (launch) carries a $16/month minimum usage; pricing lists no free plan.
Kind of free offerFree tierNo free offer
Entry paid plan
Essentials: from $0.007/hour, $5/month total. 250 MB-100 GB RAM and SSD, single DB.
Launch plan: $16/month minimum usage, including all database features. Scale plan: $256/month minimum. Enterprise: $4,096/month or more, plus a 35% usage premium.
Pricing modelOn-demand hourly billing. Data transfer is included in the price, with limits.Usage-based, against a monthly minimum per plan: $16 Launch, $256 Scale, $4,096 or more for Enterprise, which the page also marks with a 35% usage premium.
Infrastructure
Regions
76 regions for Redis Cloud Pro — 34 AWS and 42 Google Cloud — and 38 for Essentials (20 AWS, 16 Google Cloud, 2 Azure). Counted from the per-provider tables on Redis's supported-regions page, which publishes the regions and no total; Redis Cloud Pro on Azure is delivered as Azure Managed Redis rather than listed here, and the page notes AWS me-central-1 is temporarily unavailable.
20 public regions listed in the docs: 10 on AWS, 9 on GCP and 1 on Azure (eastus2); dedicated and BYOC clusters elsewhere on request.
Vector
Similarity metrics supportedCosine appears as the distance metric in Redis's own vector-field schema example. The page shows it in use and does not enumerate the other metrics, so this is not a list of what is supported.Cosine distance is documented as a supported metric (used in the SDK's example code); the full list of supported metrics wasn't confirmed beyond this.
Metadata filteringSupported — a vector KNN query can be combined with a pre-filter on other indexed fields in the same query.Exact attribute filters on every query (and/or/not, eq, in, contains, range); the planner combines the attribute index with the ANN index.
Support
Support on entry paid plan
Best-effort SLA, community support
Community Slack and email on Launch, the entry paid plan. Scale adds a private Slack channel with 8-5 hours; Enterprise 24/7.
Compliance
SOC 2Annual SOC 2 Type II (SSAE 18) audit by an independent third-party firm; Redis provides the report on written request, under confidentiality. Measures document applies to the Redis Cloud Services; last updated March 20, 2025.SOC 2 Type 2 audited for security and availability controls; report and penetration test available on request from the Trust Center.
HIPAARedis offers a HIPAA-compliant business associate agreement (BAA) for its HIPAA-secure Redis Cloud services.Customers storing PHI may request a Business Associate Agreement; turbopuffer commits to the HIPAA requirements on business associates. Pricing page lists the HIPAA-ready BAA on the Scale and Enterprise plans, not on Launch.
GDPR / data residencyDPA incorporates the EU Standard Contractual Clauses; the customer controls which geographic region personal data resides in when configuring the service.Data stays in the region selected unless the customer moves it via the API; GDPR/CCPA Data Processing Addendum offered to all customers.
PCI DSS
Assessed as a Level 1 Service Provider against PCI DSS 4.0.1; Redis Cloud Flexible/Annual subscriptions may process, store and transmit card data. Scope named as Redis Cloud Flexible/Annual subscriptions, not Essentials.
Payment card data subject to PCI DSS is Prohibited Data under the terms of service; customers must not use the Service with Prohibited Data. Contractual restriction in the terms of service, not a statement about audit scope.
Encryption at restRedis Cloud deployments are always encrypted at rest — encrypted EBS volumes on AWS, and disk encryption by default on Google Cloud and Azure. Docs say always; the plan comparison table lists encryption at rest only under Redis Cloud Pro.Customer data always encrypted at rest with AES-256, and in transit with TLS 1.2+; optionally with a customer's own key.
Role-based access control
RBAC is configured in the Redis Cloud console: named Redis ACLs are grouped into roles spanning databases, and roles are assigned to database users. Some Redis ACL subcommands (ACL SETUSER, DELUSER, LOAD, SAVE, LOG, GENPASS) are not supported.
No built-in row or document-level RBAC; docs say permissions have to be implemented at the user level with query filters. Statement is about row/document-level RBAC; no org-level role model is documented either way.
Private networking / VPCAWS PrivateLink exposes the database as a VPC endpoint service inside your own VPC; available only with Redis Cloud Pro, not supported on Essentials. VPC peering, AWS Transit Gateway and Google Private Service Connect are the other options, also Pro only.Private connections from customer VPCs to multi-tenant regions on the Enterprise plan: AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect.
Dedicated infrastructureRedis Cloud Pro is hosted in dedicated VPCs, with single- or multi-AZ high availability, Active-Active, clustering and configurable backups. The pricing page calls Essentials a shared deployment and Pro a dedicated cloud deployment.Dedicated single-tenancy clusters in further regions, or BYOC clusters inside the customer's own VPC on AWS, GCP or Azure, spun up on request. Pricing page lists Single-Tenancy and BYOC under Deployment on the Enterprise plan only.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Free tier

Redis Cloud
Yes
Turbopuffer
No — Entry plan (launch) carries a $16/month minimum usage; pricing lists no free plan.
Sources (2) →
  • Redis Cloud Pricing ↗

    “Free Always $0 Up to 30 MB Just go for it Shared cloud deployment 30 MB single DB Best-effort SLA, community support”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • turbopuffer pricing ↗

    “turbopuffer pricing launch Includes all database features Deployment Multi-Tenancy Security & Compliance SOC2 report, GDPR-ready DPA Support Community Slack & Email Sign up $16/month minimum usage”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

Kind of free offer

Redis Cloud
Free tier
Turbopuffer
No free offer
Sources (2) →

Entry paid plan

Redis Cloud
Essentials: from $0.007/hour, $5/month total. 250 MB-100 GB RAM and SSD, single DB.
Turbopuffer
Launch plan: $16/month minimum usage, including all database features. Scale plan: $256/month minimum. Enterprise: $4,096/month or more, plus a 35% usage premium.
Sources (2) →

Pricing model

Redis Cloud
On-demand hourly billing. Data transfer is included in the price, with limits.
Turbopuffer
Usage-based, against a monthly minimum per plan: $16 Launch, $256 Scale, $4,096 or more for Enterprise, which the page also marks with a 35% usage premium.
Sources (2) →
  • Redis Cloud Pricing ↗

    “Pricing methodology On demand On demand On demand On demand, annual Data transfer Included in price, limited Included in price, limited Included in price, limited Usage based”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • turbopuffer pricing ↗

    “$16/month minimum usage [...] $256/month minimum usage [...] >= $4,096/month 35% usage premium”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

Regions

Redis Cloud

76 regions for Redis Cloud Pro — 34 AWS and 42 Google Cloud — and 38 for Essentials (20 AWS, 16 Google Cloud, 2 Azure). Counted from the per-provider tables on Redis's supported-regions page, which publishes the regions and no total; Redis Cloud Pro on Azure is delivered as Azure Managed Redis rather than listed here, and the page notes AWS me-central-1 is temporarily unavailable.

Turbopuffer

20 public regions listed in the docs: 10 on AWS, 9 on GCP and 1 on Azure (eastus2); dedicated and BYOC clusters elsewhere on request.

Sources (2) →
  • Supported Cloud providers and regions — Redis Cloud Docs ↗

    “Redis Cloud supports databases in the following Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions. [...] Redis Cloud supports databases in the following Google Cloud regions. [...] Redis Cloud Essentials is available on the following Microsoft Azure regions:”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

  • Regions ↗

    “All Regions Region Location Browser RTT aws - ap-southeast-2 Sydney, Australia [...] gcp - asia-northeast3 Seoul, South Korea [...] azure - eastus2 Virginia, US”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Similarity metrics supported

Redis Cloud
Cosine appears as the distance metric in Redis's own vector-field schema example. The page shows it in use and does not enumerate the other metrics, so this is not a list of what is supported.
Turbopuffer
Cosine distance is documented as a supported metric (used in the SDK's example code); the full list of supported metrics wasn't confirmed beyond this.
Sources (2) →

Metadata filtering

Redis Cloud
Supported — a vector KNN query can be combined with a pre-filter on other indexed fields in the same query.
Turbopuffer
Exact attribute filters on every query (and/or/not, eq, in, contains, range); the planner combines the attribute index with the ANN index.
Sources (2) →
  • Redis vector search documentation ↗

    “(@brand:trek)=>[KNN 50 @vector $query_vector]=>{$SHARD_K_RATIO: 0.4; $YIELD_DISTANCE_AS: similarity}”

    Read 2026-09-11 · official docs · Report a correction

  • Query documents ↗

    “Exact filters for attributes to refine search results for. Think of it as a SQL WHERE clause. [...] When combined with a vector, the query planner will automatically combine the attribute index and the approximate nearest neighbor index for best performance and recall.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Support on entry paid plan

Redis Cloud
Best-effort SLA, community support
Turbopuffer
Community Slack and email on Launch, the entry paid plan. Scale adds a private Slack channel with 8-5 hours; Enterprise 24/7.
Sources (2) →

SOC 2

Redis Cloud
Annual SOC 2 Type II (SSAE 18) audit by an independent third-party firm; Redis provides the report on written request, under confidentiality. Measures document applies to the Redis Cloud Services; last updated March 20, 2025.
Turbopuffer
SOC 2 Type 2 audited for security and availability controls; report and penetration test available on request from the Trust Center.
Sources (2) →
  • Redis Technical and Organizational Security Measures — Redis Legal Hub ↗

    “At least annually, an independent, reputable, third-party firm will investigate and prepare a SSAE 18 Type II, specifically a SOC 2 Type II, compliance report and certification based on such investigations [...] Upon your written request, Redis will make a copy of this report available to you”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

  • Security & Compliance ↗

    “turbopuffer undergoes System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type 2 audits of the design and operational effectiveness of security and availability controls. You can request a copy of the latest SOC 2 report and Penetration Test from our Trust Center”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

HIPAA

Redis Cloud
Redis offers a HIPAA-compliant business associate agreement (BAA) for its HIPAA-secure Redis Cloud services.
Turbopuffer
Customers storing PHI may request a Business Associate Agreement; turbopuffer commits to the HIPAA requirements on business associates. Pricing page lists the HIPAA-ready BAA on the Scale and Enterprise plans, not on Launch.
Sources (2) →

GDPR / data residency

Redis Cloud
DPA incorporates the EU Standard Contractual Clauses; the customer controls which geographic region personal data resides in when configuring the service.
Turbopuffer
Data stays in the region selected unless the customer moves it via the API; GDPR/CCPA Data Processing Addendum offered to all customers.
Sources (2) →
  • Data Processing Addendum — Redis Legal Hub ↗

    “standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries pursuant to the Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021 [...] Customer controls the geographic regions in which Personal Data resides when configuring the Services.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

  • Security & Compliance ↗

    “Customer data inserted into one region remains in that region, except when requested by the customer via the turbopuffer API. [...] turbopuffer provides a Data Processing Addendum (DPA) for all customers to enable compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

PCI DSS

Redis Cloud
Assessed as a Level 1 Service Provider against PCI DSS 4.0.1; Redis Cloud Flexible/Annual subscriptions may process, store and transmit card data. Scope named as Redis Cloud Flexible/Annual subscriptions, not Essentials.
Turbopuffer
Payment card data subject to PCI DSS is Prohibited Data under the terms of service; customers must not use the Service with Prohibited Data. Contractual restriction in the terms of service, not a statement about audit scope.
Sources (2) →

Encryption at rest

Redis Cloud
Redis Cloud deployments are always encrypted at rest — encrypted EBS volumes on AWS, and disk encryption by default on Google Cloud and Azure. Docs say always; the plan comparison table lists encryption at rest only under Redis Cloud Pro.
Turbopuffer
Customer data always encrypted at rest with AES-256, and in transit with TLS 1.2+; optionally with a customer's own key.
Sources (2) →
  • Encryption at rest — Redis Cloud Docs ↗

    “Redis Cloud deployments are always encrypted at rest. [...] Persistent data is written to encrypted EBS volumes. [...] All data written to disk on Google Cloud-based Redis Cloud deployments is encrypted by default.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

  • Security & Compliance ↗

    “Customer data and usage data is always encrypted in transit with TLS1.2+. Customer data is always encrypted at rest with AES-256”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Role-based access control

Redis Cloud
RBAC is configured in the Redis Cloud console: named Redis ACLs are grouped into roles spanning databases, and roles are assigned to database users. Some Redis ACL subcommands (ACL SETUSER, DELUSER, LOAD, SAVE, LOG, GENPASS) are not supported.
Turbopuffer
No built-in row or document-level RBAC; docs say permissions have to be implemented at the user level with query filters. Statement is about row/document-level RBAC; no org-level role model is documented either way.
Sources (2) →

Private networking / VPC

Redis Cloud
AWS PrivateLink exposes the database as a VPC endpoint service inside your own VPC; available only with Redis Cloud Pro, not supported on Essentials. VPC peering, AWS Transit Gateway and Google Private Service Connect are the other options, also Pro only.
Turbopuffer
Private connections from customer VPCs to multi-tenant regions on the Enterprise plan: AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect.
Sources (2) →

Dedicated infrastructure

Redis Cloud
Redis Cloud Pro is hosted in dedicated VPCs, with single- or multi-AZ high availability, Active-Active, clustering and configurable backups. The pricing page calls Essentials a shared deployment and Pro a dedicated cloud deployment.
Turbopuffer
Dedicated single-tenancy clusters in further regions, or BYOC clusters inside the customer's own VPC on AWS, GCP or Azure, spun up on request. Pricing page lists Single-Tenancy and BYOC under Deployment on the Enterprise plan only.
Sources (2) →
  • Manage subscriptions — Redis Cloud Docs ↗

    “Redis Cloud Pro supports more databases, larger databases, greater throughput, and no fixed database-level connection limit compared to Redis Cloud Essentials. [...] Hosted in dedicated VPCs, they feature high-availability in a single or multi-AZ, Active-Active, clustering, data persistence, and configurable backups.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

  • Regions ↗

    “In addition to these public clusters, we run dedicated clusters in various other regions for single-tenancy customers and in any region inside your VPC in AWS, GCP and Azure (BYOC). We can spin up dedicated or BYOC clusters in hours upon request”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

Uptime SLATurbopuffer: 99.95%, listed only against Enterprise (from $4,096/month). Launch and Scale publish no uptime SLA.
Max dataset size, entry planRedis Cloud: 30 MB on the free Redis Cloud Essentials plan; paid Essentials plans start at 250 MB and run to 12 GB, or to 100 GB on the Essentials plans with Redis Flex, per the plan tables on this page. Redis Cloud Pro is separate: the plan comparison lists 50 TB memory size.
Data persistenceRedis Cloud: AOF (every write on Redis Cloud Pro, every second on paid Essentials) or snapshots every 1, 6 or 12 hours; free Essentials plans support no persistence at all.
Multi-region replicationRedis Cloud: Active-active multi-region replication is a Pro feature, alongside auto-tiering and private connectivity; Essentials is active-passive.
Max vector dimensionsTurbopuffer: 10,752 maximum dimensions for dense vectors; 1,024 maximum dimensions per sparse vector (sparse total dimensions unlimited)
Hybrid search (vector + keyword)Turbopuffer: Supported
ISO 27001Redis Cloud: ISO 27001:2022 ISMS certification covering information assets at Redis; the certificate is downloadable from the Trust Center after requesting access. Trust Center names Coalfire as auditor; scope is stated for Redis, not Redis Cloud specifically.
Customer-managed keysTurbopuffer: CMEK on the Enterprise plan using keys from the customer's own KMS/EKM; the encryption key is defined at the namespace level.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: Redis Cloud or Turbopuffer?

Redis Cloud: Essentials: from $0.007/hour, $5/month total. 250 MB-100 GB RAM and SSD, single DB.

Turbopuffer: Launch plan: $16/month minimum usage, including all database features. Scale plan: $256/month minimum. Enterprise: $4,096/month or more, plus a 35% usage premium.

Free tier: Redis Cloud or Turbopuffer?

Redis Cloud: Yes

Turbopuffer: No — Entry plan (launch) carries a $16/month minimum usage; pricing lists no free plan.

Should I choose Redis Cloud or Turbopuffer?

Pick Redis Cloud if Teams that want Redis from the company that maintains it, with an on-demand hourly Essentials tier cheap enough to run a small production workload without committing to a fixed plan.

Pick Turbopuffer if Teams that want vector search billed like storage rather than compute — object-storage-backed pricing tends to undercut memory-resident vector databases at rest, especially for large, cold datasets.

Provider pages

Redis CloudManaged Redis from Redis Inc., with a permanent free tier and active-active multi-region replication on the Pro plan.TurbopufferServerless vector and full-text search built on object storage, billed on a monthly minimum plus usage.

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Comments

Every page here is sourced and dated.