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turbopuffer

Serverless vector search on object storage

paidUsage-based

turbopuffer is a serverless vector database built on S3, offering very cheap storage pricing and pay-per-query model — designed for RAG at scale without fixed pod costs.

Pros

  • Storage on S3 — extremely cheap
  • Pay per query, no pod hours
  • Good for cold / infrequently-queried data
  • Simple API

Cons

  • Higher query latency than Pinecone/Qdrant
  • No free tier
  • Closed source

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