Is Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) free?

Yes. Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) has a Free plan at $0/month that includes 1 million vectors. It does not allow paid overages, so you must upgrade once you exceed it.

What is the cheapest paid Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) plan?

Dedicated starts at $99/month with 5 million vectors included, then $10 per extra million vectors.

How much does Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) cost for 10 million vectors?

At 10 million vectors per month, the cheapest option is Serverless at about $40/month before taxes and add-ons.

How is Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) billed?

Serverless billed per vCU and storage. Dedicated clusters billed hourly per CU.

What are the best Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) alternatives?

Popular alternatives are Pinecone, Qdrant Cloud, Weaviate Cloud. Compare their plans side by side on this page.

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Q: How much does Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) cost?

Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) has 4 plans: Free ($0/mo, 1 million vectors included); Serverless ($0/mo, then $4 per million vector); Dedicated ($99/mo, 5 million vectors included, then $10 per million vector); Enterprise (Custom quote).

Zilliz Cloud — managed Milvus for billion-scale vector search.

Starts at: $99/mo
Free plan: Yes
Plans: 4
Billed by: million vectors

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Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) plans and prices

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Monthly million vectors

Serverless estimate

$40/mo

$0/mo, then $4 per million vector

Estimate covers the main usage meter only; taxes and add-ons are excluded.

Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) plans at 10

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How much does Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) cost per month?


1	$0	$4.00	$99	Custom
5	—	$20	$99	Custom
10	—	$40	$149	Custom
50	—	$200	$549	Custom
200	—	$800	$2,049	Custom

Free: $0
Serverless: $4.00
Dedicated: $99
Enterprise: Custom

Free: —
Serverless: $20
Dedicated: $99
Enterprise: Custom

Free: —
Serverless: $40
Dedicated: $149
Enterprise: Custom

Free: —
Serverless: $200
Dedicated: $549
Enterprise: Custom

200

Free: —
Serverless: $800
Dedicated: $2,049
Enterprise: Custom

Cheapest plan per volume highlighted. "—" means the plan does not allow that volume.

Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) plan feature comparison


Backups & restore	None	Backups	Backups	Custom
Branching	Not included	Not included	Not included	Not included
Compute	Shared	$4 per million vCUs	Dedicated CUs	Custom
Database engine	Milvus	Milvus	Milvus	Milvus
Regions / clouds	AWS, GCP	AWS, GCP, Azure	AWS, GCP, Azure	BYOC
Storage	5 GB storage	$0.04/GB-month	Per CU	Custom
Support	Community	Email	Standard	Premium
Uptime SLA	Not included	99.9%	99.95%	99.95%