Comparison

Milvus vs Vald

On the evidence we track, Milvus leads this comparison with a composite score of 59/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Milvus59
Vald48
Score
Vioscale score
Milvus59 / 100medium · 52%updating
Vald48 / 100low · 36%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Milvus
Vald
Model
Milvusfreemium
Vald
Price level
Milvuslow
Vald
Transparent
Milvus
Vald
Integrations
Count
Milvus7
Vald
Reliability
Status page
Milvus
Vald
Adoption
Dependent repos
Milvus7
Vald1
Github stars
Milvus45,802
Vald1,718
Activity
Commits last 30d
Milvus100
Vald18
Release
Cadence days
Milvus6
Vald51
History
License
Spdx
Language
Primary
MilvusGo
ValdGo

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Milvus

Leader

A distributed database system for storing and searching high-dimensional vectors at scale. Supports multiple deployment models from local notebooks to cloud-managed services, with capabilities for hybrid search combining dense and sparse embeddings.

Independently observed

Vald

Vald is a cloud-native vector search platform running on Kubernetes that uses NGT for efficient nearest-neighbor search. It provides automatic indexing and backups, index replication across distributed agents, and horizontal scaling to handle billions of vectors.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Milvus

Leader
HybridFree tier

Open-source free; managed cloud service available

as of verify ↗

Vald

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Milvus
Vald
CLI
Milvus
Vald
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Milvus
Vald
Self-hosted
Milvus
Vald
Hybrid
Milvus
Vald

Integrations

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

Milvus

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

Vald

Not documented yet.

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