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Zilliz Cloud

Fully managed vector database service built on open-source Milvus.

Category
Vector DB
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Hosting
Cloud
Platforms
WebAPI
Verified
Jun 20, 2026

Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed vector database from the creators of Milvus. It runs billion-scale similarity search for RAG, semantic search, and AI applications without the operational burden of self-hosting, offering a free serverless tier, auto-scaling serverless, and dedicated clusters across major clouds. Features include GPU-accelerated indexing, tiered storage, and hybrid dense/sparse search.

Capabilities 2

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Vector search (primary capability)
  • Embeddings (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Built by Milvus's original creators
  • Free serverless tier, no card required
  • Scales to billions of vectors
  • Auto-scaling with dedicated clusters
  • Multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • The managed service itself is proprietary
  • Costs grow with compute and scale
  • Vector DB only, not a full RAG stack

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Further reading

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    Vector DBFREEMIUMOpen core

    Milvus

    Zilliz

    Distributed vector database built for billion-scale search.

    Cloud-native, Apache-2.0 vector database for similarity search at scale, powering RAG, semantic and multimodal search, and recommendations. Its distributed architecture separates storage and compute and supports many index types (HNSW, IVF, FLAT, DiskANN, SCANN) with quantization and mmap. Created by Zilliz, which offers the managed Zilliz Cloud.

    Scales to billion-vector deployments
    Operationally heavy to self-host
    • vector-db
    • open-source
    • rag
    • ann-search
    • +1
  • View Pinecone details
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    Pinecone

    Pinecone

    Fully-managed serverless vector database for RAG and semantic search.

    Fully-managed vector DB built for production RAG and semantic search at scale. Serverless pricing, low-latency reads, and integrations across every major framework, with no infrastructure to provision or operate.

    No infra to provision or operate
    No self-host option
    • managed
    • serverless
    • rag
    • semantic-search
  • View Weaviate details
    Vector DBFREEMIUMOpen core

    Weaviate

    Weaviate

    Open-source vector database with built-in vectorisers.

    Cloud-native vector DB that can compute embeddings inline — pass raw text in, store vectors out. Strong hybrid (BM25 + vector) search; self-hostable or managed.

    Hybrid BM25 + vector search
    Resource-heavy at large scale
    • open-source
    • self-hosted
    • hybrid-search
    • rag
  • View Qdrant details
    Vector DBFREEMIUMOpen core

    Qdrant

    Qdrant

    Open-source, Rust-based vector DB. Fast, predictable, self-hostable.

    Vector database written in Rust with a strong focus on filtering, payloads, and predictable latency at scale. Self-host on a single binary or use the managed cloud.

    Open source, written in Rust
    More ops than fully-managed rivals
    • open-source
    • rust
    • self-hosted
    • fast