{
  "calculator": "embeddings-db-cost",
  "title": "Embeddings DB Cost",
  "site": "AI Biz Hub",
  "input": {},
  "defaults_used": {
    "vector_count": 1000000,
    "dim": 1536,
    "queries_per_day": 50000,
    "ingest_per_day": 5000
  },
  "result": {
    "vendors": [
      {
        "vendor": "Pinecone",
        "monthlyCost": 177.62,
        "notes": "Pinecone Standard 2026-10: $16/M read units, $4/M write units, $0.33/GB-mo, $50/mo plan minimum; a query here uses about 7.15 read units (1 per GB of namespace, minimum 0.25). Small workloads can fit the free Starter plan (up to 2 GB, 1M read and 2M write units a month) or Builder ($20/mo flat, up to 10 GB, 2M read and 5M write units)."
      },
      {
        "vendor": "Postgres+pgvector",
        "monthlyCost": 425.79,
        "notes": "Supabase Pro 2026-10: $25/mo with $10 compute credit, 2XL compute ($410/mo, 32 GB RAM), disk above 8 GB at $0.125/GB-mo for about 14.31 GB (table plus HNSW index). Sized from Supabase's pgvector HNSW benchmarks (1536-d: Micro 15k vectors, Small 50k, Medium 100k, Large 224k, XL 500k, 2XL 1M), scaled by floats per vector and by RAM above 2XL."
      },
      {
        "vendor": "LanceDB",
        "monthlyCost": 1.32,
        "notes": "LanceDB on Cloudflare R2 2026-10: $0.015/GB-mo storage, $4.50/M writes (Class A), $0.36/M reads (Class B), one request per upsert and per query. Self-hosted compute not included."
      },
      {
        "vendor": "Turbopuffer",
        "monthlyCost": 16,
        "notes": "Turbopuffer Launch 2026-10: $16/mo minimum usage; $0.33/GB-mo logical storage, $2/GB written, $0.001/TB of data queried (namespace size, 1.28 GB minimum, discounted above 32 GB), $0.05/GB returned."
      }
    ],
    "cheapestVendor": "LanceDB",
    "cheapestMonthlyCost": 1.32,
    "cheapestAllInVendor": "Turbopuffer",
    "cheapestAllInMonthlyCost": 16,
    "storageGb": 7.15
  },
  "provenance": {
    "run": "https://aibizhub.io/api/run/embeddings-db-cost",
    "page": "https://aibizhub.io/embeddings-db-cost/",
    "methodology": "https://aibizhub.io/embeddings-db-cost/",
    "contract": "https://aibizhub.io/contracts/embeddings-db-cost.json",
    "engine": "https://aibizhub.io/engines/embeddings-db-cost.js",
    "engine_sha256": "76b25bbd915272ae856b7c561d65939b7ea1ba7f92d8856441bbe2ad2e935307",
    "build": "42c727dd573e245d1be09199a062c665d7f6f47e",
    "prices_verified": "2026-10-24",
    "prices_source": "https://aidevhub.io/api/models.json"
  },
  "disclaimer": "Business planning estimates — not legal, tax, or accounting advice.",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "cite": "AI Biz Hub, Embeddings DB Cost (engine 76b25bbd9152), https://aibizhub.io/api/run/embeddings-db-cost"
}