Supabase (pgvector) alternatives
Depot default for most agent apps under ~25–50M vectors. Don't add Pinecone until Postgres actually hurts.
Overall 8.64 (curated_estimate, high) · score asOf 2026-09-14 · last reviewed 2026-09-14. This is not an Elo and not a live price board. Provider · JSON
Jobs: postgres-vector, rag-memory, cheap-vector-scale, prototype-rag, agent-memory-kv, auth, user-management, object-storage
| Provider | Why listed | Overall | Δ vs subject | asOf |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neon Excellent serverless Postgres for agent apps that want branching + pgvector without Supabase's full BaaS. | same_jtbd_runner, same_jtbd_pick · postgres-vector, serverless-db, app-backend | 8.59high | -0.05 | 2026-09-14 |
| Clerk Depot default auth for agent products with users. WorkOS when enterprise SSO is the main job. | same_jtbd_pick, same_jtbd_runner · auth, user-management, app-backend | 8.43high | -0.21 | 2026-10-19 |
| Turbopuffer When your vector bill scares you and much of the corpus is cold, Turbopuffer is the interesting answer. | same_jtbd_runner, same_jtbd_pick · rag-memory, cheap-vector-scale | 8.21high | -0.43 | 2026-09-14 |
| Redis Use as agent hot memory/cache, not as your only 100M-vector archive. | same_jtbd_runner, same_jtbd_pick · rag-memory, agent-memory-kv | 8.07high | -0.57 | 2026-09-14 |
| Cloudflare R2 Depot pick when agent artifacts get downloaded a lot. S3-compatible without the egress grief. | same_jtbd_pick · object-storage | 8.75high | +0.11 | 2026-10-19 |
| Ably Depot pick for realtime agent↔user channels (token streaming, presence, multiplayer agent UIs). Not a… | same_jtbd_pick · realtime-agent-channel | 8.29high | -0.35 | 2026-09-14 |
| Turso Depot pick for edge/per-tenant SQLite agent state. Serverless Postgres pick stays Neon; hot KV stays Redis… | same_jtbd_pick · edge-sqlite-agent-db | 8.22high | -0.42 | 2026-09-14 |
| Weaviate Best when hybrid search and modularity matter. Cloud for convenience; self-host when lock-in anxiety spikes. | same_jtbd_pick · hybrid-search-rag | 8.2high | -0.44 | 2026-09-14 |
| Chroma Prototype on Chroma; graduate to Qdrant/pgvector/Pinecone before your corpus and QPS grow up. | same_jtbd_pick · prototype-rag | 7.88high | -0.76 | 2026-09-14 |
| Mem0 Default hosted agent memory bolt-on. Model retrieval volume carefully; self-host OSS if caps hurt. | same_jtbd_pick · hosted-agent-memory | 7.59high | -1.05 | 2026-09-14 |
| Qdrant Depot pick for serious vector workloads with filters. Self-host or Cloud — either way you can leave. | same_jtbd_runner · rag-memory, cheap-vector-scale, hybrid-search-rag | 8.59high | -0.05 | 2026-10-19 |
| Cloudflare Workers Best edge runtime for lightweight agent gateways and tools. Heavy LLM loops still belong on Modal/Fly/GPU… | same_jtbd_runner · agent-memory-kv, realtime-agent-channel, edge-sqlite-agent-db | 8.53high | -0.11 | 2026-09-14 |
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