Comparison

Qdrant vs Weaviate

On the evidence we track, Weaviate leads this comparison with a composite score of 63/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Qdrant56
★Weaviate63
Score
vioscaleAI score
Qdrant56 / 100medium · 65%
Weaviate63 / 100medium · 73%
Pricing
Free tier
Qdrant✓
Weaviate✓
Model
Weaviatefreemium
Price level
Qdrantlow
Weaviatelow
Transparent
Qdrant✓
Weaviate✗
Integrations
Count
Qdrant4
Weaviate25
Reliability
Sla pct
Qdrant–
Weaviate99.95
Status page
Qdrant–
Weaviate✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Qdrant0
Weaviate15
Github stars
Qdrant35,060
Weaviate16,862
Activity
Commits last 30d
Qdrant100
Weaviate100
Release
Cadence days
Qdrant18
Weaviate1
History
Qdrant20 items
Weaviate20 items
License
Spdx
Language
Primary
QdrantRust
WeaviateGo
Market
Content
Faq
Qdrant7 items
Weaviate7 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

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

Weaviate

Leader

A vector database that enables semantic search by storing both objects and vectors, with built-in support for combining vector similarity search with traditional keyword search, retrieval-augmented generation, and reranking capabilities.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Qdrant

Usage-basedFree tier

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

as of verify ↗

Weaviate

Leader
HybridFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

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

Integrations

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

Qdrant

14 total
  • Slack
  • Adobe
  • Hubspot
  • Arize
  • Google DeepMind
  • Qualcomm
  • Cohere
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • LangChain
  • FastEmbed
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Azure Blob Storage
Independently observed

Weaviate

Leader

Not documented yet.

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