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Comparison

txtai 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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Machine formatsMarkdownJSONGraphQLMarkdown is open. JSON and GraphQL need a free key.
txtai61
★Zilliz Cloud80
Score
vioscaleAI score
txtai61 / 100medium · 56%
Zilliz Cloud80 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
txtai✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Model
txtaiopen_source
Zilliz Cloudfreemium
Price level
txtaifree
Zilliz Cloudhigh
Starting price
txtai–
Zilliz Cloud$197
Transparent
txtai✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Integrations
Count
txtai5
Zilliz Cloud1,000
Security
Certifications
txtai–
Zilliz CloudSOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001
Gdpr
txtai–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Hipaa
txtai–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Iso27001
txtai–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Scorecard
txtai5.4
Zilliz Cloud–
Soc2
txtai–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
txtai–
Zilliz Cloud99.95
Status page
txtai✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
txtai14
Zilliz Cloud–
Github stars
txtai13,018
Zilliz Cloud–
Activity
Commits last 30d
txtai100
Zilliz Cloud–
Release
Cadence days
txtai27
Zilliz Cloud–
History
txtai20 items
Zilliz Cloud–
License
Spdx
txtaiApache-2.0
Zilliz Cloud–
Language
Primary
txtaiPython
Zilliz Cloud–
Market
Availability
txtai–
Zilliz CloudAvailable worldwide
Content
Faq
txtai6 items
Zilliz Cloud6 items

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Deployment
txtaiEmbedded
Zilliz CloudManaged
Serverless / consumption pricing
txtai-
Zilliz Cloud✓
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
txtaiHNSW, IVF, IVFSparse, milvus-lite, turbovec, zvec
Zilliz CloudHNSW, IVF, FLAT (brute-force), SCANN, DiskANN
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
txtaicosine
Zilliz Cloudcosine, Euclidean
Query
Metadata filtering
txtaiPre-filter
Zilliz CloudPost-filter
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
txtai✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical
txtai✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Storage
Quantization
txtaiScalar
Zilliz Cloud-
On-disk vs in-memory
txtaiDisk-backed
Zilliz CloudTiered
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
txtai✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Horizontal scale
txtaiSharded / distributed
Zilliz CloudSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
txtaiTunable
Zilliz Cloud-
Licensing
Licence class
txtaiPermissive OSS
Zilliz CloudProprietary
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
txtaiDedicated DBMS
Zilliz CloudDedicated DBMS

What each one is

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

txtai

txtai is an open-source Python framework for building semantic search applications, LLM-powered agents, retrieval augmented generation systems, and language model workflows with support for multiple vector backends and integration with various LLMs.

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.

txtai

Open sourceFree tier
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
txtai✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
CLI
txtai✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
txtai✗
Zilliz Cloud✓
Self-hosted
txtai✓
Zilliz Cloud✗

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • Claude

txtai

12 total - 11 not shared
  • llama.cpp
  • LiteLLM
  • Hugging Face
  • OpenAI
  • AWS Bedrock
  • smolagents
  • OpenCode
  • DuckDB
  • Milvus
  • LiteRT
  • Model Context Protocol
Independently observed

Zilliz Cloud

Leader
32 total - 31 not shared
  • 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
  • Prometheus
  • HoneyHive
  • Cohere
  • Haystack
  • FiftyOne
  • DSPy
  • +7 more
Independently observed
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