Vector databases · Comparison
turbopuffer vs Weaviate Cloud
2 products compared side by side: what you pay for with each one first, then the five access facts, entry prices, recorded plan limits and the bottom line of each review. The evidence note under the table says how each product was checked.
Side by side
| Metric | turbopuffer | Weaviate Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Worth the priceVector and full-text search billed by the bytes you store, write and query, with every database feature on the $16 plan. | Saves engineering timeThe open-source Weaviate engine run for you, with hybrid search, RBAC and multi-tenancy on every plan and no per-query or per-write charges. |
| Overall score | 5.6 | 6.2Best |
| Free option | Paid only | Free plan |
| Card to start | –Not measured | No card needed |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $16/mo minimum | $45/mo minimum |
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Usage-based |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing unit | GB stored, GB written, PB queried and GB returned | Vector dimensions, GiB of storage and GiB of backup, for each of 3 replicas |
| Free option | None; refund if cancelled within 30 days (sign-up page) | Free cluster (100,000 objects), no card |
| Reference scenario (1M vectors, 1M queries) | $30/mo on launch, computed | $255/mo on Flex, official calculator |
| Plan minimum | launch $16; scale $256; enterprise from $4,096 a month | Flex $45 a month; Premium through sales |
| Hybrid search | Every plan (BM25 plus vector, rank fusion) | Every plan (BM25F plus vector, fused) |
| Backups | Manual namespace copies and branches; no automated backups | Daily on Flex, kept 7 days; restore through support |
| SOC 2 / ISO 27001 | SOC 2 Type II; ISO 27001 not stated | SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 (Markdown copy of the security page) |
| HIPAA BAA | scale and enterprise | Premium Dedicated, through sales |
| EU regions | AWS Frankfurt, Ireland and London; GCP Frankfurt and Belgium | Region selection on Dedicated tiers; EU regions not named |
| SSO | scale and enterprise, enabled on request | SAML on Premium |
| BYOC | enterprise | Named on the security page; through sales |
| Data export | Paged query API (JSON) | Cursor API; Parquet export not available on Cloud |
| Self-host path | None | Weaviate open source (BSD-3-Clause; some enterprise features licensed separately) |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, turbopuffer is the lowest-cost option for our scenario, with every database feature from a $16 minimum. It has no free tier, no automated backups and no open-source engine, and some pricing details differ between pages. | From its public pages, Weaviate Cloud is the managed form of an open-source engine, billed by what you store with three replicas included. Enterprise controls sit on Premium through sales, and its rates are easiest to read through the calculator. |
Evidence: turbopuffer: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Weaviate Cloud: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Entry price
Baseline: each product's cheapest paid plan, per month. Included usage differs, so read the line under each price.
- turbopufferLowest pricelaunch$16/mo minimumUsage above the minimum: $0.33/GB stored, $2/GB written, $1/PB queried, $0.05/GB returned
- All database features: vector, BM25 full-text and hybrid search
- Unlimited namespaces
- SOC 2 report and GDPR-ready DPA
- Community Slack and email support
- Weaviate CloudFlex$45/mo minimumPay as you go, monthly; from $0.00465 per 1M vector dimensions, $0.12 per GiB storage, $0.03036 per GiB backup
- Highly available clusters with replication
- Daily backups kept 7 days
- AWS or GCP, 7 regions
- Embeddings and Query Agent billed by usage
Prices as listed on each pricing page, in USD per month, excluding tax. Observed: turbopuffer 2026-10-16, Weaviate Cloud 2026-10-16.
Which one fits
- If you need to start today without a sales call
- Weaviate CloudSelf-serve sign-up, no card needed; the highest score of the 2 self-serve products here (6.2/10).
- If you want to try it without entering a card
- Weaviate CloudFree plan, no card needed; scored 6.2/10.
- Lowest starter price
- turbopuffer$16/mo minimum for the launch plan.
- Highest overall score
- Weaviate Cloud6.2/10 (Good). The review shows the score breakdown and the run behind it.
Picked by fixed rules from the table above, not by hand. How we score
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