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turbopuffer.com · Vector databases
SEPT 2026 audit

Serverless vector and full-text search built on object storage, billed on a monthly minimum plus usage.

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Entry paid planLaunch 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.
Regions20 public regions listed in the docs: 10 on AWS, 9 on GCP and 1 on Azure (eastus2); dedicated and BYOC clusters elsewhere on request.
Free tierNo — Entry plan (launch) carries a $16/month minimum usage; pricing lists no free plan.
CategoryVector databases

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 20 criteria comparedSources last checked

Turbopuffer pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
Launch plan: $16/month minimum usage, including all database features source ↗
Pricing model
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… source ↗

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01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

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.

Consider something else if…

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Turbopuffer pricing

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Free tierNo — Entry plan (launch) carries a $16/month minimum usage; pricing lists no free plan.
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    “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”

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Kind of free offerNo free offer
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Entry paid planLaunch 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.
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Pricing modelUsage-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.
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Infrastructure

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Regions20 public regions listed in the docs: 10 on AWS, 9 on GCP and 1 on Azure (eastus2); dedicated and BYOC clusters elsewhere on request.
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  • Regions ↗

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

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Uptime SLA99.95%, listed only against Enterprise (from $4,096/month). Launch and Scale publish no uptime SLA.
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Vector

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Max vector dimensions10,752 maximum dimensions for dense vectors; 1,024 maximum dimensions per sparse vector (sparse total dimensions unlimited)
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  • Limits ↗

    “Max dimensions for dense vectors 10,752 Max total dimensions for sparse vectors Unlimited (seen: 30,522) Max dimensions per sparse vector 1,024”

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Similarity metrics supportedCosine 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.
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Hybrid search (vector + keyword)Supported
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Metadata filteringExact attribute filters on every query (and/or/not, eq, in, contains, range); the planner combines the attribute index with the ANN index.
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  • 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.”

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Support

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Support on entry paid planCommunity Slack and email on Launch, the entry paid plan. Scale adds a private Slack channel with 8-5 hours; Enterprise 24/7.
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  • turbopuffer pricing ↗

    “Support Community Slack & Email Private Slack Channel Support Hours 8-5 [...] Support Community Slack & Email Private Slack Channel Support Hours 24/7”

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Compliance

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SOC 2SOC 2 Type 2 audited for security and availability controls; report and penetration test available on request from the Trust Center.
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  • 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”

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HIPAACustomers 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.
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  • Security & Compliance ↗

    “Customers who wish to store protected health information (PHI) in turbopuffer may request a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with turbopuffer, under which turbopuffer commits to compliance with the requirements of HIPAA on business associates that store and process PHI.”

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GDPR / data residencyData stays in the region selected unless the customer moves it via the API; GDPR/CCPA Data Processing Addendum offered to all customers.
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  • 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).”

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PCI DSSPayment 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.
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  • turbopuffer terms of service ↗

    “credit, debit, or other payment card data subject to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards [...] Customer must not use the Service with Prohibited Data or for High Risk Activities”

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Encryption at restCustomer data always encrypted at rest with AES-256, and in transit with TLS 1.2+; optionally with a customer's own key.
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Customer-managed keysCMEK on the Enterprise plan using keys from the customer's own KMS/EKM; the encryption key is defined at the namespace level.
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  • Security & Compliance ↗

    “turbopuffer offers support for customer managed encryption keys (CMEK), allowing customers on the Enterprise plan to ensure their data is encrypted using keys from their Key Management System (KMS)/Enterprise Key Manager (EKM). [...] the encryption key is defined at the namespace level.”

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Role-based access controlNo 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.
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  • Permissions ↗

    “Permissions in turbopuffer currently have to be implemented at the user-level with filters, as turbopuffer [...] provide built-in mechanisms for row/document-level RBAC.”

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Private networking / VPCPrivate connections from customer VPCs to multi-tenant regions on the Enterprise plan: AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect.
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  • Security & Compliance ↗

    “turbopuffer supports private network connections between customer VPCs and our multi-tenant regions [...] This feature is available to customers on the Enterprise plan. AWS regions use AWS PrivateLink GCP regions use GCP Private Service Connect”

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Dedicated infrastructureDedicated 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.
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  • 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”

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Turbopuffer pricing questions

How much does Turbopuffer cost?

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.

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How does Turbopuffer charge?

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.

turbopuffer pricing · read

Does Turbopuffer have a free tier?

No.

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What uptime does Turbopuffer guarantee?

99.95%, listed only against Enterprise (from $4,096/month). Launch and Scale publish no uptime SLA.

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