Comparison

Epsilla vs Milvus

No leader: the top candidate Epsilla has only 0.30 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Epsilla65
Milvus58
Score
vioscaleAI score
Epsilla65 / 100low · 30%
Milvus58 / 100medium · 57%
Pricing
Free tier
Epsilla
Milvus
Model
Epsillafreemium
Milvusfree
Price level
Epsillamid
Milvusfree
Transparent
Epsilla
Milvus
Integrations
Count
Epsilla
Milvus7
Reliability
Sla pct
Epsilla99.9
Milvus
Status page
Epsilla
Milvus
Adoption
Dependent repos
Epsilla
Milvus7
Github stars
Epsilla
Milvus46,047
Activity
Commits last 30d
Epsilla
Milvus100
Release
Cadence days
Epsilla
Milvus10
History
Epsilla
Milvus20 items
License
Spdx
Epsilla
Language
Primary
Epsilla
MilvusGo
Content
Faq
Epsilla4 items
Milvus6 items

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Deployment
EpsillaManaged
MilvusSelf-hosted
Serverless / consumption pricing
Epsilla
Milvus
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
Epsilla-
MilvusHNSW, IVF, FLAT, SCANN, DiskANN, GPU_CAGRA
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
Epsilla-
Milvuscosine, Euclidean, dot product
Query
Metadata filtering
Epsilla-
MilvusPre-filter
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
Epsilla-
Milvus
Built-in BM25 / lexical
Epsilla-
Milvus
Storage
Quantization
Epsilla-
MilvusProduct
On-disk vs in-memory
Epsilla-
MilvusDisk-backed
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
Epsilla
Milvus
Horizontal scale
Epsilla-
MilvusSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
Epsilla-
MilvusEventual
Licensing
Licence class
EpsillaProprietary
MilvusPermissive OSS
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
EpsillaFeature of parent
MilvusDedicated DBMS

What each one is

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

Epsilla

A platform that simplifies building AI agents and knowledge-base systems for teams of any technical level. It provides enterprise-grade multi-tenancy and supports flexible deployment modes including cloud, on-premise, and private cloud.

Independently observed

Milvus

A high-performance, distributed vector database that enables fast similarity search across billions of high-dimensional vectors, supporting real-time updates, flexible metadata filtering, and hybrid search capabilities for AI and machine learning applications.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Epsilla

from $29/moSubscriptionFree tier

Free tier through $2,499/month. Custom pricing for Enterprise. Metered add-ons $2–39/month.

  • Free TierFree
    • 1 Team Member
    • 1 Project
    • 1 AI Application
    • 1 Knowledge Base
    • 10M Vector Storage
    • +3 more
  • Starter Tier$29/month
    • 2 Team Members
    • 1 Project
    • 5 AI Applications
    • 5 Knowledge Bases
    • 1G Vector Storage
    • +2 more
  • Professional Tier$249/month
    • 20 Team Members
    • 10 Projects
    • 50 AI Applications
    • 50 Knowledge Bases
    • 10G Vector Storage
    • +3 more
  • AI Concierge$2,499/month
    • Everything in Professional
    • Fractional Forward Deployed AI Engineer
    • Done-For-You AI Agent & Workflow Build-Out
    • Domain-to-AI Enablement
    • Weekly Strategy & Review Calls
    • +3 more
  • Enterprise TierContact sales
    • Unlimited Team Members
    • Unlimited Projects
    • Unlimited AI Applications
    • Unlimited Knowledge Bases
    • Unlimited Vector Storage
    • +6 more
as of verify ↗

Milvus

FreeFree tier

Open-source and available for free. Managed hosting available through Zilliz Cloud.

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Epsilla
Milvus
Linux
Epsilla
Milvus
CLI
Epsilla
Milvus
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Epsilla
Milvus
Self-hosted
Epsilla
Milvus
On-premise
Epsilla
Milvus

Integrations

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

Epsilla

Not documented yet.

Milvus

8 total
  • OpenAI
  • Sentence Transformers
  • BGE-M3
  • SPLADE
  • Jina AI
  • BM25
  • PyMilvus
  • Jina
Independently observed
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