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Comparison

Vald 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.

Vald full profile →Zilliz Cloud full profile →
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Vald47
★Zilliz Cloud80
Score
vioscaleAI score
Vald47 / 100low · 35%
Zilliz Cloud80 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Model
Vald–
Zilliz Cloudfreemium
Price level
Vald–
Zilliz Cloudhigh
Starting price
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud$197
Transparent
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Integrations
Count
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud1,000
Security
Certifications
Vald–
Zilliz CloudSOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001
Gdpr
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Hipaa
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Iso27001
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Scorecard
Vald6.6
Zilliz Cloud–
Soc2
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud99.95
Status page
Vald✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Vald1
Zilliz Cloud–
Github stars
Vald1,734
Zilliz Cloud–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Vald9
Zilliz Cloud–
Release
Cadence days
Vald47
Zilliz Cloud–
History
Vald20 items
Zilliz Cloud–
License
Spdx
ValdApache-2.0
Zilliz Cloud–
Language
Primary
ValdGo
Zilliz Cloud–
Market
Availability
Vald–
Zilliz CloudAvailable worldwide
Content
Faq
Vald3 items
Zilliz Cloud6 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

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

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.

Vald

Pricing not documented yet.

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
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Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
CLI
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Vald✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Self-hosted
Vald✓
Zilliz Cloud✗

Integrations

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

Vald

Not documented yet.

Zilliz Cloud

Leader
32 total
  • 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
  • Claude
  • Prometheus
  • HoneyHive
  • Cohere
  • Haystack
  • FiftyOne
  • +8 more
Independently observed
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