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turbopuffer pricing
turbopuffer publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, turbopuffer pricing is $16/month across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- $16/month
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Not on record
turbopuffer plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Launch | $16/month | 3 | Entry tier |
| Scale | $256/month | 6 | +$240/month, 6 more features |
| Enterprise | $4096/month | 7 | +$3840/month, 7 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Launch
$16/monthThe entry tier. It covers all database features, multi-tenancy deployment, soc2 & gdpr-ready dpa.
Scale
$256/monthOver Launch, this tier adds:
- Everything in Launch
- HIPAA-ready BAA
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Audit Logs (+$128/mo for Audit Log Streams)
- IP allowlisting
- Private Slack support (8-5 hours)
Enterprise
$4096/monthOver Scale, this tier adds:
- Everything in Scale
- Single-tenancy & BYOC deployment options
- Private networking
- CMEK (Per Namespace)
- 24/7 support with SLA
- 99.95% uptime SLA
- 35% usage premium
What the product covers
The full turbopuffer feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Object storage architecture
- Namespaces
- Vector search
- Full-text search
- Attribute filtering
- Documented limits
- Configurable consistency
- Durable writes
- Multi-query requests
- Deployment options
People bring turbopuffer in for a product with one search index per customer and thousands of customers, most of whose data is idle on any given day, very large corpora where holding every vector in memory is the dominant cost and occasional cold-query latency is acceptable, hybrid retrieval combining bm25 and vector search where running and synchronising two separate systems is the problem being solved, retrieval for agent and assistant products where indexes are created and destroyed frequently and per-index overhead must be near zero. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to turbopuffer are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Databases
Across the 3 databases tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $234/month. turbopuffer starts at $16/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| turbopuffer (this page) | $16/month | subscription | - | |
| Canary Labs | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | vs turbopuffer |
| Presto | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs turbopuffer |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs turbopuffer |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs turbopuffer |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs turbopuffer |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs turbopuffer |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the turbopuffer badges page.
Before you pay for turbopuffer
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between $16/month and $4096/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare turbopuffer against the tools that do have one before committing.
turbopuffer runs on not recorded. The full record is on the turbopuffer review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
turbopuffer pricing questions
- How much does turbopuffer cost?
- turbopuffer publishes 3 tiers, from $16/month for Launch up to $4096/month for Enterprise. The cheapest paid tier is $16/month.
- Does turbopuffer have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: turbopuffer is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Launch and Scale on turbopuffer?
- Scale costs $256/month against $16/month, and adds everything in launch, hipaa-ready baa, single sign-on (sso), audit logs (+$128/mo for audit log streams).
- Is the Enterprise plan on turbopuffer worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is everything in scale, single-tenancy & byoc deployment options, private networking, cmek (per namespace). It costs $4096/month against $16/month for Launch. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is turbopuffer expensive for a databases tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 3 databases tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $234/month; turbopuffer starts at $16/month.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside turbopuffer have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with turbopuffer?
- The record lists 10 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a product with one search index per customer and thousands of customers, most of whose data is idle on any given day, very large corpora where holding every vector in memory is the dominant cost and occasional cold-query latency is acceptable, hybrid retrieval combining bm25 and vector search where running and synchronising two separate systems is the problem being solved.
- Does turbopuffer charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these turbopuffer prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare turbopuffer against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with turbopuffer covering price, platforms and features.