Pick turbopuffer if
search / RAG teams who will pay the Launch minimum of $16/month and grow on logical GB, not a per-seat vector UI.
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Our take
Pick turbopuffer if search / RAG teams who will pay the Launch minimum of $16/month and grow on logical GB, not a per-seat vector UI. Pick Weaviate if teams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (100k objects, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB disk) or self-host, then buy Flex at $45/month when they need HA, 1,000 collections, and pay-as-you-go dimensions.
Best for
turbopuffer Cheap, huge search you meter in storage / write / query bytes
Weaviate Vectors you can self-host or rent from $45 Flex
Free plan
turbopuffer No free plan
Weaviate $0 · forever. 1 cluster / user. 100,000 objects. 1 GB memory. 10 GB disk. 1 collection, up to 3 tenants. Embeddings 2,000 req/day. Query Agent 1,000 req/month. Best-effort SLA
Lowest paid
turbopuffer Usage (all plans) $0.33
Weaviate Premium Shared / Dedicated $0.003875/mo
Next step up
turbopuffer Public calculator example (1,024 $0.88
Weaviate Embeddings (list) $0.025
Coding agent
turbopuffer
Weaviate Query Agent
Runs where
turbopuffer Hosted
Weaviate Local; you host it
Watch out
turbopuffer There is no free hobby cluster
Weaviate Free is 100k objects and one collection
Last checked
turbopuffer 2026-10-22 · turbopuffer.com/pricing
Weaviate 2026-10-22 · weaviate.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Weaviate if
teams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (100k objects, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB disk) or self-host, then buy Flex at $45/month when they need HA, 1,000 collections, and pay-as-you-go dimensions.
Read the Weaviate page