Turbopuffer vs Pinecone
Turbopuffer builds directly on NVMe SSD caching and S3 object storage, charging $0.05/GB-mo (85% cheaper than Pinecone $0.33/GB-mo). Pinecone offers established zero-ops tooling and multi-cloud serverless maturity.
Monthly Cost Across Realistic Benchmarks
RAG Prototype · 100k×1536 fp32
Turbopuffer: $16.08/mo Pinecone Serverless: $2.17/mo
Cheaper: Pinecone ServerlessMid Scale · 1M×768 INT8
Turbopuffer: $16.18/mo Pinecone Serverless: $9.00/mo
Cheaper: Pinecone ServerlessLarge · 5M×768 INT8 10M queries
Turbopuffer: $17.23/mo Pinecone Serverless: $85.43/mo
Cheaper: Turbopuffer