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At a glance

Serverless vector and full-text search engine built on cloud object storage (Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2). Offers a Free Sandbox ($0/mo up to 100k vectors), Launch tier ($16/mo minimum with pay-as-you-go storage at ~$0.02-$0.10/GB/mo and vector queries at ~$0.000002/query with $0 idle compute), Scale tier ($256/mo minimum for high throughput), and Enterprise BYOC tiers ($4,096+/mo) with VPC deployment, single-tenant clusters, SAML SSO, SOC 2 Type II, and 99.99% Multi-AZ SLA.

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same category, free plan or open-source license

UpstashFreemium serverless data platform (Redis, Kafka, Vector, QStash). Free tier includes daily command/request quotas (10k commands/day for Redis/Kafka/Vector, 500 messages/day for QStash at $0/mo). Pay-as-you-go charges per request ($0.20-$0.40 per 100k requests) and storage ($0.25/GB/mo) with scale-to-zero idle compute. Pro fixed plans start at $280/mo with dedicated throughput and 99.99% SLA, and Enterprise plans provide dedicated VPC peering and custom compliance.TurboVecopen sourceFree and open source under the MIT License. Distributed as a Rust crate and Python package with zero software licensing fees.Neonopen sourceNeon provides a serverless PostgreSQL database with scale-to-zero capabilities. The Free tier includes 100 Compute Unit (CU) hours and 0.5 GB storage per month across up to 100 projects. Paid usage is consumption-based with no minimum monthly platform fee: Launch bills at $0.106/CU-hour and Scale at $0.222/CU-hour with $0.35/GB-month storage.SPTAGopen sourceFree and open source under the MIT License. Users provide their own hardware and compute infrastructure for distributed serving and index compilation.
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FAQ

How much does turbopuffer cost?

Serverless vector and full-text search engine built on cloud object storage (Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2). Offers a Free Sandbox ($0/mo up to 100k vectors), Launch tier ($16/mo minimum with pay-as-you-go storage at ~$0.02-$0.10/GB/mo and vector queries at ~$0.000002/query with $0 idle compute), Scale tier ($256/mo minimum for high throughput), and Enterprise BYOC tiers ($4,096+/mo) with VPC deployment, single-tenant clusters, SAML SSO, SOC 2 Type II, and 99.99% Multi-AZ SLA. Paid pricing starts at ~$0.02/GB/mo.

Does turbopuffer have a free plan?

No — turbopuffer has no free plan; it is a paid tool.

What are free or cheaper turbopuffer alternatives?

Upstash, TurboVec, Neon are in the same category with a free plan or open-source license.

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