Supabase vs turbopuffer

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Supabase is the stronger AI pick in Vector Databases: it has a visibility score of 5.7 versus 4.6 for turbopuffer, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose Supabase if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (5.7 vs 4.6)
You want a free plan to start
You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
You need ISO 27001 or HIPAA (BAA available) coverage

Choose turbopuffer if…

You want a lower entry price ($16 vs $25)
AI answers describe it more positively (33% vs 18% positive)
You need HIPAA (Business Associate Agreement available) or GDPR-ready DPA coverage
Usage-based pricing suits your budget better than flat tiers

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 2

Metric	Supabase	turbopuffer
Visibility score	5.7%	4.6%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in Vector Databases	#12	#14
Share of voice	2.2%	1.9%
Mentions this run	11	9
Positive in AI answers	18%	33%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Supabase 0pp · turbopuffer 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Supabase leads on 2 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

10.4%

6.7%

AI Mode

5.9%

4.3%

Perplexity

0.9%

2.8%

Supabaseturbopuffer

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

1Supabase ranked higher

0turbopuffer ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Supabase	turbopuffer
Official website of the top vector database vendors	Perplexity	#11	#13

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Supabase	turbopuffer
Pricing model	Flat tiers	Usage-based
Entry price	Free; paid from $25 / mo	$16 / mo
Free plan	Yes	No
Deployment	Hosted cloud in AWS regions across the US, EU and Asia Pacific, or self-hosted open source	Multi-tenant cloud on usage-based plans; single-tenant and bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) deployments on the enterprise plan.
Compliance	SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA (BAA available)	SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA (Business Associate Agreement available), GDPR-ready DPA
Support	Community support (Free plan), Email support (Pro plan), Priority email support and SLAs (Team plan), 24x7 premium enterprise support and private Slack channel (Enterprise plan)	Community Slack and email on all plans, Private Slack channel on higher plans, 24/7 support and 99.95% uptime SLA on enterprise
Founded	2020	2023
Headquarters	Remote-first, United States	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Employees	201–500	11–50
Funding	Series D · $1000M raised	Seed
Best for	Teams building production applications on Postgres that want auth, storage, realtime and vector search in one backend	Teams building AI applications, semantic search or recommendation systems that need large-scale vector and full-text search at lower cost.