--- title: pgvector vs Pinecone vs Turbopuffer vs Qdrant (2026) description: A hands-on comparison of four vector databases — pgvector, Pinecone, Turbopuffer, and Qdrant — tested against a real RAG workload of 2 million vectors at... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pgvector-vs-pinecone-vs-turbopuffer-vs-qdrant-2026--m1dot7ras twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: pgvector vs Pinecone vs Turbopuffer vs Qdrant (2026) | daily.dev og:description: A hands-on comparison of four vector databases — pgvector, Pinecone, Turbopuffer, and Qdrant — tested against a real RAG workload of 2 million vectors at... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pgvector-vs-pinecone-vs-turbopuffer-vs-qdrant-2026--m1dot7ras og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/M1DOT7RAS.png og:image:alt: pgvector vs Pinecone vs Turbopuffer vs Qdrant (2026) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # pgvector vs Pinecone vs Turbopuffer vs Qdrant (2026) **[Alex CloudStar](https://daily.dev/sources/alexcloudstar)** · [@alexcloudstar](https://daily.dev/alexcloudstar) · 16 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hands-on comparison of four vector databases — pgvector, Pinecone, Turbopuffer, and Qdrant — tested against a real RAG workload of 2 million vectors at ~1,000 queries/day. Key findings: pgvector wins on cost and simplicity for under 10M vectors if you're already on Postgres (8–25ms p95, ~$30/mo); Qdrant leads on hybrid search and filtering (15–40ms p95, ~$40–80/mo); Turbopuffer offers dramatically lower cost for large corpora but has cold-query latency (300–800ms); Pinecone remains the easiest managed option but costs ~$180/mo at this scale. The author migrated from Pinecone to pgvector for their main workload, kept Qdrant for hybrid search needs, and uses Turbopuffer for a large document archive. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [pgvector vs Pinecone: The Prototype Was Easy. 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