Turbopuffer pricing details and 7 free alternatives in Databases. Catalogue date August 2026.
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. How we use this.
A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. This one rests on a record effective between 2026-06-18 and 2026-06-30, so it lapses on 2026-12-28 unless we record something new first.
Subtypes in Databases: vector — stores embeddings and answers similarity queries as its primary access path. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://turbopuffer.com/, where it says: “vector and full-text search built on object storage: fast, 10x cheaper, and extremely scalable” How we use this.
Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. Serverless vector database… Turbopuffer warrants caution — effective between 2026-06-18 and 2026-06-30: Turbopuffer cut the Launch plan's monthly minimum from $64 to $16. Its changelog dates the cut to June 2026, and the Internet Archive's copy of 2026-06-18 still shows $64. Scale's minimum stays $256 a month. Source: https://turbopuffer.com/docs/roadmap Monitor for further changes.
Serverless vector database. No free tier: every plan has a monthly minimum, $16 on Launch and $256 on Scale, and usage above the minimum is billed. Turbopuffer cut the Launch minimum from $64 to $16 a month in June 2026.
We read that on 2026-10-02 from https://turbopuffer.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Turbopuffer as "turbopuffer" and states amounts, none of which we matched to the terms we publish. A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
How Turbopuffer compares against every one of the 7 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| Turbopuffer | Pay-as-you-go | not_a_free_offer |
| Supabase | Free Postgres development platform: database, Auth, Storage, Realtime and Edge Functions. The Free plan is $0: unlimited API requests, 50,000 monthly active users, a 500 MB database on a shared CPU with 500 MB RAM, 5 GB egress plus 5 GB cached egress, 1 GB file storage, 500,000 Edge Function… |
stable |
| Upstash | Free Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (256MB data). Vector: 200M vectors × dimensions and 10K queries a day free. |
stable |
| Upstash Vector | Free Serverless vector database by Upstash. Free: 200M vectors × dimensions (about 130,000 vectors at the maximum 1,536 dimensions), 100 namespaces, 10K queries and updates a day, 1 GB of data |
stable |
| SurrealDB Cloud | Free Multi-model cloud database — The 'Start' plan offers 1GB of storage free, forever, and a free compute instance with 0.25 vCPU and 1 GB memory ($0.000/hr). Further instances are available from $0.021/hr. |
stable |
| Weaviate | Open Source Open-source vector database — self-hosted free. Cloud: permanent free tier with 1 cluster, 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk, 1 collection, up to 3 tenants, 2,000 embedding requests/day and 1,000 Query Agent requests/month. |
stable |
| Chroma | Open Source Open-source AI-native embedding database — Starter plan per month + $5 in free credits. Write per GiB written $2.50, Storage per GiB per month $0.33, Query per TiB queried $0.0075, Network per GiB returned $0.09. |
stable |
| Zilliz Cloud | Free Managed Milvus vector database — free tier: 5 GB storage, 2.5M vector compute units/month, up to 5 collections. Milvus open-source also free to self-host with no limits |
stable |
Left out of this list: Koyeb (shares no subtype with this product), Neon (shares no subtype with this product), MongoDB Atlas (shares no subtype with this product), CockroachDB (shares no subtype with this product), Turso (shares no subtype with this product), Firebase (shares no subtype with this product), Databricks (Lakeflow Connect) (none of this category's subtypes apply), Convex (shares no subtype with this product), Appwrite Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Aiven (shares no subtype with this product), Xata (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare D1 (shares no subtype with this product), Nhost (shares no subtype with this product), PocketBase (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare KV (shares no subtype with this product), Momento (shares no subtype with this product), Nile (shares no subtype with this product), DynamoDB Local (runs only on a developer machine), Redis Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Prisma Accelerate (extends another product), LanceDB (shares no subtype with this product), Gel (we have not classified this record), CrateDB (shares no subtype with this product), Neo4j AuraDB (shares no subtype with this product), InfluxDB Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Hasura (extends another product), 8base.com (shares no subtype with this product), codehooks.io (shares no subtype with this product), Couchbase Capella (shares no subtype with this product), filess.io (shares no subtype with this product), restdb.io (shares no subtype with this product), SeaTable (none of this category's subtypes apply), skyvia.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), StackBy (none of this category's subtypes apply), Google Cloud BigQuery (shares no subtype with this product), Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL (shares no subtype with this product), PlanetScale (we have not classified this record). Each is still listed in Databases, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.
We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
curl https://agentdeals.dev/api/changes?vendor=Turbopuffer
curl https://agentdeals.dev/pricing-changes/feed.xml?vendor=Turbopuffer
Look up Turbopuffer programmatically with the AgentDeals MCP server:
{
"tool": "search_deals",
"arguments": {
"query": "Turbopuffer",
"limit": 5
}
}