Turbopuffer
When your vector bill scares you and much of the corpus is cold, Turbopuffer is the interesting answer.
When your vector bill scares you and much of the corpus is cold, Turbopuffer is the interesting answer. Strengths: Excellent cost for large-scale / cold-heavy retrieval; Modern architecture for agent memory at scale; Simple operational model.
Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.
When your vector bill scares you and much of the corpus is cold, Turbopuffer is the interesting answer.
Strengths
- · Excellent cost for large-scale / cold-heavy retrieval
- · Modern architecture for agent memory at scale
- · Simple operational model
Weaknesses
- · Younger than Pinecone/Weaviate
- · Feature set narrower for fancy hybrid modules
- · Less community content
Pricing notes
As of 2026-10-24 (turbopuffer.com/pricing, fetched 2026-10-24): Usage-based with plan minimums: launch '$16/month minimum usage', scale '$256/month minimum usage', enterprise '>= $4,096/month' with '35% usage premium'. 'You'll pay for actual usage beyond the minimum.' 'Unused amounts don't roll over to the next month.' Calculator rates: 'Storage ≤ $0.33 per GB', 'Writes ≤ $2.00 per GB', 'Queries ≤ $1.00 per PB', billed on logical bytes. Queries: 'an 80% marginal discount on data queried between 32 GB and 128 GB, and a 96% marginal discount on data queried beyond 128 GB'; writes: 'Every write is billed at least 10 KB', batch write discount up to 50% ('reaches 50% at approximately 3.2 MB'). Scale adds 'HIPAA-ready BAA' and 'Single Sign-On (SSO)'; enterprise adds 'Uptime SLA 99.95%' and 'BYOC'. No free tier ('we have chosen a commercial-only model').
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