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Comparison

Qdrant 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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Qdrant56
★Zilliz Cloud80
Score
vioscaleAI score
Qdrant56 / 100medium · 65%
Zilliz Cloud80 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
Qdrant✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Model
Qdrantcommercial
Zilliz Cloudfreemium
Price level
Qdrantlow
Zilliz Cloudhigh
Starting price
Qdrant–
Zilliz Cloud$197
Transparent
Qdrant✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Integrations
Count
Qdrant4
Zilliz Cloud1,000
Security
Certifications
Qdrant–
Zilliz CloudSOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001
Gdpr
Qdrant✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Hipaa
Qdrant✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Iso27001
Qdrant–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Soc2
Qdrant✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Qdrant–
Zilliz Cloud99.95
Status page
Qdrant–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Qdrant0
Zilliz Cloud–
Github stars
Qdrant35,060
Zilliz Cloud–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Qdrant100
Zilliz Cloud–
Release
Cadence days
Qdrant18
Zilliz Cloud–
History
Qdrant20 items
Zilliz Cloud–
License
Spdx
QdrantApache-2.0
Zilliz Cloud–
Language
Primary
QdrantRust
Zilliz Cloud–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Qdrant7 items
Zilliz Cloud6 items

Capabilities

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

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

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.

Qdrant

Usage-basedFree tier

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

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
Qdrant✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
CLI
Qdrant✗
Zilliz Cloud✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Qdrant✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Self-hosted
Qdrant✓
Zilliz Cloud✗
On-premise
Qdrant✓
Zilliz Cloud✗

Integrations

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

In common (5)
  • Hubspot
  • Cohere
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • LangChain

Qdrant

14 total - 9 not shared
  • Slack
  • Adobe
  • Arize
  • Google DeepMind
  • Qualcomm
  • GCP
  • FastEmbed
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Azure Blob Storage
Independently observed

Zilliz Cloud

Leader
32 total - 27 not shared
  • Google Cloud
  • Fivetran
  • Google Ads
  • Google Analytics 4
  • Google Search Console
  • Google Sheets
  • LinkedIn Ad Analytics
  • Marketo
  • Microsoft Advertising
  • NetSuite SuiteAnalytics
  • Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications
  • Apache SeaTunnel
  • PostgreSQL/Pgvector
  • PyMilvus
  • Claude
  • Prometheus
  • HoneyHive
  • Haystack
  • FiftyOne
  • DSPy
  • Voyage AI
  • Jina AI
  • n8n
  • DocsGPT
  • +3 more
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Qdrant or Zilliz Cloud: which one depends on you

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