Comparison

Deep Lake vs Zilliz Cloud

On the evidence we track, Zilliz Cloud leads this comparison with a composite score of 80/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Deep Lake66
Zilliz Cloud80
Score
Vioscale score
Deep Lake66 / 100low · 37%
Zilliz Cloud80 / 100medium · 73%
Pricing
Free tier
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud
Model
Deep Lakecommercial
Zilliz Cloudfreemium
Price level
Deep Lakehigh
Zilliz Cloudfree
Transparent
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud
Integrations
Count
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud4
Security
Gdpr
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud
Hipaa
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud
Iso27001
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud
Soc2
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud
Reliability
Sla pct
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud99.95
Status page
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud
Adoption
Dependent repos
Deep Lake1,384
Zilliz Cloud
Github stars
Deep Lake9,228
Zilliz Cloud
Package downloads weekly
Deep Lake28,208
Zilliz Cloud
Release
Cadence days
Deep Lake11
Zilliz Cloud
History
Deep Lake20 items
Zilliz Cloud
License
Spdx
Deep LakeApache-2.0
Zilliz Cloud
Language
Primary
Deep LakeC++
Zilliz Cloud

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for vector databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
Deep LakeManaged
Zilliz CloudManaged
Serverless / consumption pricing
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
Deep Lake-
Zilliz Cloud-
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
Deep Lake-
Zilliz Cloud-
Query
Metadata filtering
Deep Lake-
Zilliz CloudPost-filter
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud
Built-in BM25 / lexical
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud
Storage
Quantization
Deep Lake-
Zilliz Cloud-
On-disk vs in-memory
Deep Lake-
Zilliz CloudTiered
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
Deep Lake-
Zilliz Cloud
Horizontal scale
Deep Lake-
Zilliz CloudSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
Deep Lake-
Zilliz Cloud-
Licensing
Licence class
Deep LakeSource-available
Zilliz CloudProprietary
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
Deep LakeDedicated DBMS
Zilliz CloudDedicated DBMS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Deep Lake

Deep Lake is a data engine optimized for AI that combines vector and tensor storage with GPU acceleration, offering versioned data, full-text search, and serverless query capabilities for machine learning and AI agent applications.

Independently observed

Zilliz Cloud

Leader

Fully managed Vector Lakebase services designed for high reliability, performance, and cost efficiency at scale. Purpose-built for real-time serving, iterative discovery, and batch analytics at billion-scale.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Deep Lake

from $99/moHybridFree tier7-day trial

From $99/seat/month (Team) or pay-as-you-go Basic with $15 credit. 7-day free trial available.

  • BasicFree
    • Pay as you go compute
    • Daily backups with 1-day retention
    • SSO (Google/Microsoft)
    • MFA
    • 1 business day support
  • Team$99/seat/month, 7-day free trial
    • 1M traces/month per seat
    • 10M queries/month per seat
    • Daily backups with 1-day retention
    • SSO (Google/Microsoft)
    • MFA
    • +2 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

Zilliz Cloud

Leader
from $0/moSubscriptionFree tier30-day trial

Free tier available. Paid plans start from $197/month (Enterprise Dedicated) or usage-based pricing ($126/GB for Standard Dedicated).

  • FreeFree
    • Vector search
    • Up to 5 collections
  • StandardFrom $0/month (Serverless) or from $126/GB/month (Dedicated)
    • Fully managed vector databases with core APIs
    • Backup and restore
    • Basic monitoring
    • Data encryption in transit and at rest
  • EnterpriseFrom $197/month (Dedicated)
    • 99.95% uptime SLA
    • Audit logs
    • SSO (SAML 2.0)
    • Granular RBAC
    • Multi-replica and elastic scaling
    • +1 more
  • Business CriticalContact sales
    • Global cluster with high-level availability
    • Disaster recovery
    • CMEK and full-path in-transit encryption
    • HIPAA-eligible
    • Rapid incident response
  • BYOCContact sales
    • Deploy on your infrastructure of choice
    • High-level control and security
    • Same features and experience as SaaS Dedicated clusters
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Deep Lake
Zilliz Cloud

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Deep Lake

Not documented yet.

Zilliz Cloud

Leader
4 total
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • LangChain
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.