# turbopuffer

13 Hacker News commenters recommended turbopuffer and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Hosted database for vector and keyword search at large scale, recommended for its low cost and fast queries on very large datasets.

## Why people recommend it

- Built-in vector and BM25 keyword search (2 comments): "natively supports dense vector similarity and BM25 keyword indexes out of the box" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328728)) "do pretty much what Turbopuffer did for text and vector data" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929920))
- Low cost and latency at scale (2 comments): "something like turbopuffer can do wonders for your costs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112920)) "And they recently got 200ms latency on 100B vectors." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891305))
- Admired site design and team (2 comments): "Web design is inspired/somewhat taken from turbopuffer's site, since I really liked it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887923)) "Turbopuffer team really cooking!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46717598))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Pinecone](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pinecone.md): 6 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://turbopuffer.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "turbopuffer", https://hackerapproved.com/p/turbopuffer/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).