turbopuffer pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- launch: $16 month minimum usage
- scale: $256 month minimum usage
- enterprise: $4,096 month minimum usage (>= $4,096/month, 35% usage premium)
- Worth noting: Usage-based: storage ≤ $0.33/GB, writes ≤ $2.00/GB, queries ≤ $1.00/PB; namespaces included. Plan prices are monthly minimum commitments; usage beyond minimum billed. Enterprise carries 35% usage premium. Unused commitments don't roll over.
Plans
launch
$16 month minimum usage
- All database features
- Multi-tenancy
- SOC2 report, GDPR-ready DPA
- Community Slack & Email support
scale
$256 month minimum usage
- All database features
- Multi-tenancy
- HIPAA-ready BAA
- SSO
- Audit logs
- IP allowlisting
- Private Slack channel
- Support hours 8-5
enterprise
$4,096 month minimum usage (>= $4,096/month, 35% usage premium)
- All database features
- Single-tenancy
- BYOC
- Private networking
- CMEK (per namespace)
- 24/7 support
- Support SLA
- Uptime SLA 99.95%
What you get on each plan
| Feature | launch | scale | enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum usage | $16/month | $256/month | >= $4,096/month |
| Multi-Tenancy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Single-Tenancy | — | — | ✓ |
| BYOC | — | — | ✓ |
| SOC2 report, GDPR-ready DPA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HIPAA-ready BAA | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Single Sign-On (SSO) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audit Logs | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audit Log Streams | — | +$128/mo | +$128/mo |
| IP Allowlisting | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Private Networking | — | — | ✓ |
| CMEK (Per Namespace) | — | — | ✓ |
| Community Slack & Email | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Private Slack Channel | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support Hours | — | 8-5 | 24/7 |
| Support SLA | — | — | ✓ |
| Uptime SLA | — | — | 99.95% |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Audit Log Streams | $128/mo | scale, enterprise |
turbopuffer pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| turbopuffer | $16 / mo | No | Usage-based | — | |
| Pinecone | Free; paid from $20 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Production AI applications, from solo developers and small teams to mission-critical enterprise deployments | Compare → |
| Qdrant | Contact sales | Yes | Usage-based | Developers and teams building RAG, semantic search and recommendation systems that need hybrid search and metadata filtering, either self-hosted or managed | Compare → |
| Weaviate | Free; paid from $45 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Development teams and enterprises building search, RAG and agent applications who want an open-source, production-ready vector database. | Compare → |
| Chroma | Free; paid from $250 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Developers building retrieval-augmented generation prototypes, who get a fast start locally, and teams that later need a managed or self-hosted search system. | Compare → |
List prices as published on turbopuffer.com/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.