Weaviate vs turbopuffer

Weaviate9.1Visit turbopuffer8.6Visit

Higher score Weaviate #3 in Vector Database Hosting 9.1/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 2 of 3 features Visit Weaviate

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turbopuffer #8 in Vector Database Hosting 8.6/10 Paid ✓ 2 of 3 features Visit turbopuffer

• Weaviate fits best

  Production hybrid search deployments

• turbopuffer fits best

  High-scale managed vector workloads

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Side by side

Feature	Weaviate 9.1/10 Visit ↗	turbopuffer 8.6/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.1	8.6
Ranking	#3 in Vector Database Hosting	#8 in Vector Database Hosting
Best for	Production hybrid search deployments	High-scale managed vector workloads
Pricing model	Free plan + paid	Paid
Starting price	$45/mo	$16/mo (best)
Free plan	✓ (best)	—
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web	Web
Support	Email, Phone, Community, Docs · 24/7	Email, Community, Docs · 24/7
Compliance	SOC 2, HIPAA, SSO/SAML	SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, SSO/SAML
Built for	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Weaviate 2/3 · turbopuffer 2/3
Hybrid search	✓	✓
Metadata filtering	✓	✓
Serverless scaling	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Specs
Included storage	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Deployment regions	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Maximum dimensions	Not checked yet	10752 dimensions
Our review
Pros	Hybrid search combines vector and BM25/BM25F keyword results Managed cloud and self-hosted deployment options Replication, multitenancy, compression, and multiple index types	Combines dense, sparse, BM25, and hybrid search Supports exact filtered kNN and metadata filtering Offers branching, sharding, embedding, and BYOC deployment
Cons	Free plan is limited to 100,000 objects and 1 GB memory Flex starts at $45 per month, with usage-based charges possible Premium requires a prepaid contract starting at $400 per month	There is no free plan Launch uses a $16 monthly minimum usage commitment Enterprise pricing starts at >=$4,096/month plus a 35% usage premium
Our verdict	Weaviate is an open-source vector database for developers and teams building AI applications. It stores data objects and vector embeddings, with vector similarity search, BM25/BM25F keyword search, hybrid search, metadata and scalar… Read the review →	turbopuffer is a hosted search database for AI applications, semantic search, recommendations, and other retrieval workloads. It combines dense and sparse vector search with full-text BM25 search, metadata filtering, branching, and… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Weaviate — where it wins

  • Hybrid search combines vector and BM25/BM25F keyword results
  • Managed cloud and self-hosted deployment options
  • Replication, multitenancy, compression, and multiple index types

  Where it doesn't

  • Free plan is limited to 100,000 objects and 1 GB memory
  • Flex starts at $45 per month, with usage-based charges possible
  • Premium requires a prepaid contract starting at $400 per month

• turbopuffer — where it wins

  • Combines dense, sparse, BM25, and hybrid search
  • Supports exact filtered kNN and metadata filtering
  • Offers branching, sharding, embedding, and BYOC deployment

  Where it doesn't

  • There is no free plan
  • Launch uses a $16 monthly minimum usage commitment
  • Enterprise pricing starts at >=$4,096/month plus a 35% usage premium

• Weaviate9.1/10 · Free plan

  A flexible vector database for production hybrid search across cloud and self-managed deployments.

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• turbopuffer8.6/10 · Paid

  A broad managed search database for high-scale AI retrieval workloads.

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