Comparison

Epsilla 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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Epsilla65
★Zilliz Cloud80
Score
vioscaleAI score
Epsilla65 / 100low · 29%
Zilliz Cloud80 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
Epsilla✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Model
Epsillafreemium
Zilliz Cloudfreemium
Price level
Epsillamid
Zilliz Cloudhigh
Starting price
Epsilla–
Zilliz Cloud$197
Transparent
Epsilla✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Integrations
Count
Epsilla–
Zilliz Cloud1,000
Security
Certifications
Epsilla–
Gdpr
Epsilla–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Hipaa
Epsilla–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Iso27001
Epsilla–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Soc2
Epsilla–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Trust center
Epsilla–
Reliability
Sla pct
Epsilla99.9
Zilliz Cloud99.95
Status page
Epsilla✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Market
Availability
Epsilla–
Content
Faq
Epsilla4 items
Zilliz Cloud6 items

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Deployment
EpsillaManaged
Zilliz CloudManaged
Serverless / consumption pricing
Epsilla✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
Epsilla-
Zilliz CloudHNSW, IVF, FLAT (brute-force), SCANN, DiskANN
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
Epsilla-
Zilliz Cloudcosine, Euclidean
Query
Metadata filtering
Epsilla-
Zilliz CloudPost-filter
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
Epsilla-
Zilliz Cloud✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical
Epsilla-
Zilliz Cloud✓
Storage
Quantization
Epsilla-
Zilliz Cloud-
On-disk vs in-memory
Epsilla-
Zilliz CloudTiered
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
Epsilla✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Horizontal scale
Epsilla-
Zilliz CloudSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
Epsilla-
Zilliz Cloud-
Licensing
Licence class
EpsillaProprietary
Zilliz CloudProprietary
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
EpsillaFeature of parent
Zilliz CloudDedicated DBMS

What each one is

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

Epsilla

A platform that enables teams to build and deploy AI applications by combining language models with searchable knowledge repositories. It simplifies the setup and management of retrieval-augmented generation workflows without requiring technical engineering.

Independently observed

Zilliz Cloud

Leader

Zilliz Cloud is a managed cloud service built on the open-source Milvus vector database. It handles storage, indexing, and similarity search at scale for unstructured data, supporting vector search, full-text search, and hybrid retrieval for AI and machine learning workloads.

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 ↗

Zilliz Cloud

Leader
from $197/moHybridFree tier30-day trial

Free tier with 5 GB storage. Serverless pricing from $0/month pay-per-query. Dedicated clusters from $197/month. Annual commitments available.

  • FreeFree
    • Community support via Slack
    • Vector search
    • Filtered search
    • Range search
  • ServerlessPay-per-query pricing, system-managed auto-scaling
    • Fully managed vector databases
    • Backup and restore
    • Basic monitoring
    • Built-in encryption for data in transit and at rest
    • Vector search
    • +2 more
  • DedicatedFrom $197/month base, plus $0.126/GB storage, dedicated infrastructure
    • 99.95% uptime SLA
    • SSO (SAML 2.0)
    • Granular RBAC
    • Multi-replica and elastic scaling
    • Global cluster with disaster recovery
    • +9 more
  • BYOCContact sales
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Epsilla✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
CLI
Epsilla✗
Zilliz Cloud✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Epsilla✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Self-hosted
Epsilla✓
Zilliz Cloud✗
On-premise
Epsilla✓
Zilliz Cloud✗

Integrations

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

Epsilla

Not documented yet.

Zilliz Cloud

Leader
32 total
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • LangChain
  • Fivetran
  • Google Ads
  • Google Analytics 4
  • Google Search Console
  • Google Sheets
  • Hubspot
  • LinkedIn Ad Analytics
  • Marketo
  • Microsoft Advertising
  • NetSuite SuiteAnalytics
  • Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications
  • Apache SeaTunnel
  • PostgreSQL/Pgvector
  • PyMilvus
  • Claude
  • Prometheus
  • HoneyHive
  • Cohere
  • Haystack
  • FiftyOne
  • +8 more
Independently observed
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