Turbopuffer pricing guide details
Pricing Overview
turbopuffer is a serverless vector and full-text search database built on object storage. It prices with monthly usage minimums: Launch $16 per month, Scale $256 per month, and Enterprise from $4,096 per month with a 35% usage premium. On Launch, if your usage in a month comes to $16 or less, you pay $16; above that, you pay for what you use. Audit log streams add $128 per month on Scale and Enterprise.
turbopuffer does not list its per-GB storage, write or query rates next to these plans. Its pricing log (turbopuffer.com/docs/pricing-log) records how billing has changed, and its site links a cost calculator. To know your bill above the minimum, run your own workload through that calculator.
Our view: the minimums are low for a production-grade service, and most changes in the pricing log have lowered prices, though August 2026 raised the pinning minimum. But turbopuffer markets itself as "10x cheaper", and with no unit rates on the plan list, you cannot check that claim from list prices alone.
Plan Comparison
All plans include the full database feature set: vector search, full-text search, hybrid search, metadata filtering and multi-tenancy. The plans differ in compliance, support and deployment options.
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| Feature | Launch ($16/month minimum) | Scale ($256/month minimum) | Enterprise (from $4,096/month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All database features | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-tenancy | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Single-tenancy / BYOC | No | No | Yes |
| SOC2 report and GDPR-ready DPA | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA-ready BAA | No | Yes | Yes |
| Single sign-on (SSO) | No | Yes | Yes |
| CMEK (per namespace) | No | No | Yes |
| Private networking | No | No | Yes |
| Support | Community Slack and email | Private Slack, 8-5 hours | Private Slack, 24/7, SLA |
| Uptime SLA | No | No | 99.95% |
| Audit log streams | No | +$128/month | +$128/month |
The jump from Launch to Scale is the one most teams hit: SSO or a HIPAA BAA alone moves your floor from $16 to $256 per month. Enterprise adds a 35% premium on usage on top of its higher minimum, so it only makes sense when you need BYOC, CMEK, private networking or an uptime SLA.
Hidden Costs and Considerations
- Query size. Queries are billed on the data they query. The pricing log lists marginal discounts of 80% between 32 GB and 128 GB and 96% above 128 GB, and a minimum of 1.28 GB billed per query. Many small queries against small namespaces still pay that minimum each time.
- Namespace pinning. Pinned namespaces are billed in GB-hours instead of per query, with a minimum of 128 GB (raised from 64 GB in August 2026) and 10 minutes. A pinned namespace under 128 GB is billed as 128 GB.
- Several vector columns. Filterable attributes are billed once per vector column, for both writes and storage.
- Audit logs. Audit log streams cost $128 per month on top of the Scale or Enterprise minimum.
Cost Estimates by Team Size
turbopuffer bills on usage, not seats, so team size matters less than your plan and workload. We can only compute the minimums; usage above them depends on unit rates the plan list does not show.
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| Situation | Plan | Monthly bill |
|---|---|---|
| Prototype, usage of $16 or less | Launch | $16 (the minimum) |
| Small app, usage above $16 | Launch | Your usage |
| Team needing SSO or a HIPAA BAA | Scale | At least $256 |
| Scale with audit log streams | Scale | At least $256 + $128 = $384 |
| BYOC, CMEK or uptime SLA | Enterprise | At least $4,096, usage at a 35% premium |
Over a year, the minimums come to 12 x $16 = $192 on Launch, 12 x $256 = $3,072 on Scale and 12 x $4,096 = $49,152 on Enterprise.
How Turbopuffer Pricing Compares
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| Tool | Published entry prices |
|---|---|
| turbopuffer | Launch $16, Scale $256, Enterprise from $4,096 per month (minimums) |
| ChromaDB (Chroma Cloud) | Starter $0/month plus usage ($5 in free credits); Team $250/month plus usage; storage $0.33 per GiB-month |
| Weaviate Cloud | Free $0/month; Flex from $45/month; Premium from $400/month (prepaid); Flex storage $0.12 per GiB |
| Zilliz | Free $0 with 5 GB storage; Enterprise from $197 per month (Dedicated) |
| Qdrant Cloud | Free Tier forever (1GB RAM, 4GB disk); Standard is usage-based with no listed rates |
turbopuffer's Launch floor of $16 is low, and Scale at $256 sits close to ChromaDB's Team plan at $250. The difference is transparency: ChromaDB and Weaviate publish per-GiB storage rates you can multiply by your data size, while turbopuffer asks you to use its calculator. ChromaDB, Weaviate, Zilliz and Qdrant also offer a $0 entry point. turbopuffer fits best when your data is large and mostly cold, which is the workload its object-storage design targets.