# Qdrant vs Zilliz Cloud

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Zilliz Cloud

| Attribute | Qdrant | Zilliz Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 58.7 (60% (medium)) | 79.8 (73% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 34,203 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A vector database engine that provides fast similarity search over high-dimensional vectors, available in managed cloud, self-hosted open source, and hybrid deployment models for AI applications. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"ann_index":"HNSW","deployment":"self_hosted","quantization":"scalar","storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"source_available","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed"}` | `{"deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"storage_tier":"tiered","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"proprietary","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","metadata_filtering":"post_filter"}` |
| integrations.count | 6 | 4 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Adobe"},{"name":"Hubspot"},{"name":"Arize"},{"name":"Google DeepMind"},{"name":"Qualcomm"}]` | `[{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"LangChain"}]` |
| language.primary | Rust | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB","CN","SG","DE"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","summary":"Usage-based pricing on CPU, memory, and disk storage; charged monthly for previous month's usage","currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T12:16:09.861Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["Vector search","Up to 5 collections"],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"vCUs":"2.5M/month","storage":"5 GB","collections":"5"}},{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"From $0/month (Serverless) or from $126/GB/month (Dedicated)","features":["Fully managed vector databases with core APIs","Backup and restore","Basic monitoring","Data encryption in transit and at rest"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":126,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"From $197/month (Dedicated)","features":["99.95% uptime SLA","Audit logs","SSO (SAML 2.0)","Granular RBAC","Multi-replica and elastic scaling","Private endpoint and VPC peering"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":197,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Business Critical","features":["Global cluster with high-level availability","Disaster recovery","CMEK and full-path in-transit encryption","HIPAA-eligible","Rapid incident response"],"contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"BYOC","features":["Deploy on your infrastructure of choice","High-level control and security","Same features and experience as SaaS Dedicated clusters"],"contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"On-demand Compute"}],"summary":"Free tier available. Paid plans start from $197/month (Enterprise Dedicated) or usage-based pricing ($126/GB for Standard Dedicated).","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://zilliz.com/pricing/unlimited-calculator","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T20:46:56.922Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 18 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.19.0","date":"2026-08-05T11:26:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.19.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.18.3","date":"2026-07-17T13:18:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.18.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.18.2","date":"2026-06-04T06:50:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.18.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.18.1","date":"2026-05-22T12:31:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.18.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.18.0","date":"2026-05-11T15:04:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.18.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.17.1","date":"2026-03-27T08:37:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.17.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.17.0","date":"2026-02-20T11:11:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.17.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.16.3","date":"2025-12-19T17:45:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.16.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.16.2","date":"2025-12-04T11:03:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.16.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.16.1","date":"2025-11-25T17:16:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.16.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.16.0","date":"2025-11-17T14:32:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.5","date":"2025-09-30T12:23:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.4","date":"2025-08-27T11:24:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.3","date":"2025-08-14T16:30:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.2","date":"2025-08-11T18:04:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.1","date":"2025-07-24T10:18:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.0","date":"2025-07-18T13:08:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.14.1","date":"2025-05-23T13:09:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.14.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.14.0","date":"2025-04-22T16:34:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.14.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.13.6","date":"2025-03-31T23:28:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.13.6"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.95 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=helm&package_name=cowboysysop%2Fqdrant&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | Qdrant | Zilliz Cloud |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Managed |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | - | ✓ |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | HNSW | - |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | - | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Metadata filtering | - | Post-filter |
| Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in BM25 / lexical | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Quantization | Scalar | - |
| On-disk vs in-memory | Disk-backed | Tiered |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Horizontal scale | Sharded / distributed | Sharded / distributed |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | - | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Source-available | Proprietary |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS | Dedicated DBMS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:45:31.586Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*