Databases & Vector · side by side
ClickHouse Cloud vs Zilliz Cloud (Milvus)
Compare ClickHouse Cloud, Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) by database engines, storage, compute, backups, branching and vector-search features.
Databases & Vector pricing calculator
These providers bill in different units. Each estimate uses its own workload; there is no same-volume price winner.
ClickHouse Cloud
Zilliz Cloud (Milvus)
ClickHouse Cloud
$53 / mo
Basic · 300 compute hours
Zilliz Cloud (Milvus)
$197 / mo
Enterprise · 10 million vectors
Listed USD plan fees and tracked usage only. Unlisted compute, transfer, extras, taxes and contract terms are excluded. Custom or unsupported plan usage is not estimated.
Databases & Vector overview & pricing
| Databases & Vector | ClickHouse Cloud | Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ClickHouse | Zilliz |
| Billing unit | compute hours | million vectors |
| Plan at selected usage | Basic | Enterprise |
| Monthly estimate | $53/mo | $197/mo |
| Workload | 300 compute hours | 10 million vectors |
| Free access | Trial credits | Free cluster |
| Published plans | Basic, Scale, Enterprise, Bring Your Own Cloud | Free, Standard, Enterprise, Business Critical, On-demand Compute, BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) |
| Prices checked | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-08 |
- ClickHouse Cloud
- ClickHouse
- Zilliz Cloud (Milvus)
- Zilliz
- ClickHouse Cloud
- compute hours
- Zilliz Cloud (Milvus)
- million vectors
- ClickHouse Cloud
- Basic
- Zilliz Cloud (Milvus)
- Enterprise
- ClickHouse Cloud
- $53/mo
- Zilliz Cloud (Milvus)
- $197/mo
- ClickHouse Cloud
- 300 compute hours
- Zilliz Cloud (Milvus)
- 10 million vectors
- ClickHouse Cloud
- Trial credits
- Zilliz Cloud (Milvus)
- Free cluster
- ClickHouse Cloud
- Basic, Scale, Enterprise, Bring Your Own Cloud
- Zilliz Cloud (Milvus)
- Free, Standard, Enterprise, Business Critical, On-demand Compute, BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud)
- ClickHouse Cloud
- 2026-10-08
- Zilliz Cloud (Milvus)
- 2026-10-08
Databases & Vector monthly cost
Different workloads, separate estimates
Start with the engine and workload: relational databases, vector indexes and Redis services are not interchangeable. Storage estimates do not include unlisted compute, query, replication or network charges. Check backup retention, regions and scaling behavior.
Which database providers fit your needs?
ClickHouse Cloud features & plan notes
- Columnar OLAP
- Sub-second analytics
- SQL
- Storage: $25.30 Per 1TB / mo
- Compute: $0.2181 Per unit / hr
- Up to 1 TB storage
- 8-12 GiB total memory
- Backups every 24h, retained for 1 day
- 1 availability zone
- Export backups to your own cloud account
- Expert support with 1 business day response time
- Single sign-on authentication (SSO) using Google or Microsoft Social login
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) features & plan notes
- Open-source Milvus
- Billion-scale vectors
- GPU index
- 99.95% uptime SLA
- Audit logs, SSO (SAML 2.0 based), granular RBAC
- Multi-replica and elastic scaling
- Private endpoint and VPC peering
- On-demand
- Enterprise support included
How to compare database providers
Start with the engine and workload: relational databases, vector indexes and Redis services are not interchangeable. Storage estimates do not include unlisted compute, query, replication or network charges. Check backup retention, regions and scaling behavior.
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