# turbopuffer

turbopuffer is a vector and full-text search database built on object storage. It keeps data in low-cost object storage and caches actively searched data on NVMe SSD and in memory. It offers automatic scaling, hybrid search and metadata filtering, and is priced by usage.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/turbopuffer · data of 2026-11-02

## Facts

- Founded: 2023
- Headquarters: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Employees: 11–50
- Company type: Private, venture-backed
- Latest funding: Seed
- Deployment: Multi-tenant cloud on usage-based plans; single-tenant and bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) deployments on the enterprise plan.
- Best for: Teams building AI applications, semantic search or recommendation systems that need large-scale vector and full-text search at lower cost.
- Compliance: SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA (Business Associate Agreement available), GDPR-ready DPA

## Products

- Vector Search: Approximate nearest neighbor search over vectors at large scale.
- Full-Text Search: BM25 full-text search.
- Hybrid Search: Combines vector and full-text search strategies in one query.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vector Databases | 14 of 30 | 4.6 | 9 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 6.7 | 14.8% |
| google_ai_mode | 4.3 | 7.4% |
| perplexity | 2.8 | 11.1% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “turbopuffer AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/turbopuffer, data of 2026-11-02. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).