Comparison

LanceDB vs Qdrant

No clear leader: LanceDB (58.5) and Qdrant (55.8) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. 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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LanceDB59
Qdrant56
Score
vioscaleAI score
LanceDB59 / 100medium · 53%
Qdrant56 / 100medium · 65%
Pricing
Free tier
LanceDB✓
Qdrant✓
Model
Price level
LanceDBfree
Qdrantlow
Transparent
LanceDB–
Qdrant✓
Integrations
Count
LanceDB15
Qdrant4
Adoption
Dependent repos
LanceDB453
Qdrant0
Github stars
LanceDB11,663
Qdrant35,060
Package downloads weekly
LanceDB1,423,043
Qdrant–
Activity
Commits last 30d
LanceDB100
Qdrant100
Release
Cadence days
LanceDB–
Qdrant18
History
LanceDB20 items
Qdrant20 items
License
Spdx
Language
Primary
LanceDBRust
QdrantRust
Market
Content
Faq
LanceDB6 items
Qdrant7 items

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Deployment
LanceDBSelf-hosted
QdrantSelf-hosted
Serverless / consumption pricing
LanceDB✓
Qdrant-
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
LanceDB-
QdrantHNSW
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
LanceDB-
Qdrantdot product
Query
Metadata filtering
LanceDBPost-filter
Qdrant-
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
LanceDB✓
Qdrant✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical
LanceDB✓
Qdrant✓
Storage
Quantization
LanceDB-
QdrantScalar
On-disk vs in-memory
LanceDBDisk-backed
QdrantDisk-backed
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
LanceDB✓
Qdrant✓
Horizontal scale
LanceDBSharded / distributed
QdrantSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
LanceDB-
Qdrant-
Licensing
Licence class
LanceDBPermissive OSS
QdrantSource-available
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
LanceDBDedicated DBMS
QdrantDedicated DBMS

What each one is

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

LanceDB

A specialized lakehouse platform designed to store and query text, images, and vector data together, enabling high-performance vector search for real-time and historical multimodal AI workloads.

Independently observed

Qdrant

A database system designed for storing and searching vectors with comprehensive filtering capabilities. It provides production-ready APIs and tools for semantic similarity matching and embedding-based 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.

LanceDB

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Qdrant

Usage-basedFree tier

Usage-based pricing billed monthly based on CPU, memory, and disk storage consumption. Free tier available.

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
LanceDB✓
Qdrant✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
LanceDB✓
Qdrant✓
Self-hosted
LanceDB✓
Qdrant✓
On-premise
LanceDB✗
Qdrant✓

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • LangChain

LanceDB

20 total - 19 not shared
  • LlamaIndex
  • DuckDB
  • Apache Arrow
  • Pandas
  • Polars
  • CrewAI
  • Hugging Face
  • Apache Fluss
  • Ray
  • Volcano Engine
  • Voxel51
  • Continue
  • OpenClaw
  • LeRobot
  • Fluss
  • Apache Flink
  • MemGPT
  • OpenSearch
  • Flight SQL
Independently observed

Qdrant

14 total - 13 not shared
  • Slack
  • Adobe
  • Hubspot
  • Arize
  • Google DeepMind
  • Qualcomm
  • Cohere
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • FastEmbed
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Azure Blob Storage
Independently observed
Still deciding?

LanceDB or Qdrant: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

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