Is Weaviate Cloud free?

Yes. Weaviate Cloud has a Sandbox plan at $0/month that includes 1 GB storage. It does not allow paid overages, so you must upgrade once you exceed it.

What is the cheapest paid Weaviate Cloud plan?

Serverless starts at $25/month, then $0.095 per extra GB storage.

How much does Weaviate Cloud cost for 20 GB storage?

At 20 GB storage per month, the cheapest option is Serverless at about $27/month before taxes and add-ons.

How is Weaviate Cloud billed?

Serverless starts at $25/month minimum. Price scales per million vector dimensions stored.

What are the best Weaviate Cloud alternatives?

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

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Q: How much does Weaviate Cloud cost?

Weaviate Cloud has 3 plans: Sandbox ($0/mo, 1 GB storage included); Serverless ($25/mo, then $0.095 per GB storage); Enterprise Cloud (Custom quote).

Open-source vector database with built-in vectorizers and hybrid search.

Starts at: $25/mo
Free plan: Yes
Plans: 3
Billed by: GB storage

Plans at a glance

Weaviate Cloud plans and prices

Estimated from public pricing

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Weaviate Cloud cost calculator

Storage

20 GB

Serverless estimate

$27/mo

$25/mo, then $0.095 per GB storage

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

Weaviate Cloud plans at 20

vs alternatives (cheapest plan)

How much does Weaviate Cloud cost per month?


2	—	$25	Custom
10	—	$26	Custom
20	—	$27	Custom
100	—	$35	Custom
400	—	$63	Custom

Sandbox: —
Serverless: $25
Enterprise Cloud: Custom

Sandbox: —
Serverless: $26
Enterprise Cloud: Custom

Sandbox: —
Serverless: $27
Enterprise Cloud: Custom

100

Sandbox: —
Serverless: $35
Enterprise Cloud: Custom

400

Sandbox: —
Serverless: $63
Enterprise Cloud: Custom

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

Weaviate Cloud plan feature comparison


Backups & restore	None	Daily backups	Custom
Branching	Not included	Not included	Not included
Compute	Shared	Serverless	Dedicated
Database engine	Vector	Vector	Vector
Regions / clouds	GCP	AWS, GCP, Azure	AWS, GCP, Azure
Storage	Trial cluster	$0.095 per 1M dimensions	Custom
Support	Community	Email	Premium
Uptime SLA	Not included	99.5%	99.95%

Backups & restore

Sandbox: None
Serverless: Daily backups
Enterprise Cloud: Custom

Branching

Sandbox: Not included
Serverless: Not included
Enterprise Cloud: Not included

Compute

Sandbox: Shared
Serverless: Serverless
Enterprise Cloud: Dedicated

Database engine

Sandbox: Vector
Serverless: Vector
Enterprise Cloud: Vector

Regions / clouds

Sandbox: GCP
Serverless: AWS, GCP, Azure
Enterprise Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure

Storage

Sandbox: Trial cluster
Serverless: $0.095 per 1M dimensions
Enterprise Cloud: Custom

Support

Sandbox: Community
Serverless: Email
Enterprise Cloud: Premium

Uptime SLA

Sandbox: Not included
Serverless: 99.5%
Enterprise Cloud: 99.95%

How Weaviate Cloud pricing works

Weaviate Cloud Serverless is billed by stored vector dimensions with a monthly minimum; dedicated Enterprise Cloud is billed by AIU.

Serverless starts at $25/month minimum.
Price scales per million vector dimensions stored.

Weaviate Cloud is best for

Hybrid keyword + vector search

Built-in embedding modules

Multi-tenant RAG

Weaviate Cloud alternatives

Pinecone

$57/mo at 20

Serverless vector DB · Hybrid search

Weaviate Cloud vs Pinecone

Qdrant Cloud

$22/mo at 20

Rust vector engine · Filtering

Weaviate Cloud vs Qdrant Cloud

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Source: official Weaviate Cloud pricing page. Estimated. Prices change — confirm before buying.