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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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Vald48
★Zilliz Cloud80
Score
Vioscale score
Vald48 / 100low · 36%
Zilliz Cloud80 / 100medium · 73%
Pricing
Free tier
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Model
Vald–
Zilliz Cloudfreemium
Price level
Vald–
Zilliz Cloudfree
Transparent
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Integrations
Count
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud4
Security
Gdpr
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Hipaa
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Iso27001
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Scorecard
Vald6.6
Zilliz Cloud–
Soc2
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Vald–
Zilliz Cloud99.95
Status page
Vald✓
Zilliz Cloud✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Vald1
Zilliz Cloud–
Github stars
Vald1,718
Zilliz Cloud–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Vald18
Zilliz Cloud–
Release
Cadence days
Vald51
Zilliz Cloud–
History
Vald20 items
Zilliz Cloud–
License
Spdx
ValdApache-2.0
Zilliz Cloud–
Language
Primary
ValdGo
Zilliz Cloud–
Market
Availability

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 Cloud-
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
Vald-
Zilliz Cloud-
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

Fully managed Vector Lakebase services designed for high reliability, performance, and cost efficiency at scale. Purpose-built for real-time serving, iterative discovery, and batch analytics at billion-scale.

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 $0/moSubscriptionFree tier30-day trial

Free tier available. Paid plans start from $197/month (Enterprise Dedicated) or usage-based pricing ($126/GB for Standard Dedicated).

  • FreeFree
    • Vector search
    • Up to 5 collections
  • StandardFrom $0/month (Serverless) or from $126/GB/month (Dedicated)
    • Fully managed vector databases with core APIs
    • Backup and restore
    • Basic monitoring
    • Data encryption in transit and at rest
  • EnterpriseFrom $197/month (Dedicated)
    • 99.95% uptime SLA
    • Audit logs
    • SSO (SAML 2.0)
    • Granular RBAC
    • Multi-replica and elastic scaling
    • +1 more
  • Business CriticalContact sales
    • Global cluster with high-level availability
    • Disaster recovery
    • CMEK and full-path in-transit encryption
    • HIPAA-eligible
    • Rapid incident response
  • BYOCContact sales
    • Deploy on your infrastructure of choice
    • High-level control and security
    • Same features and experience as SaaS Dedicated clusters
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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✓
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
4 total
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • LangChain
Independently observed

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