# Vald vs Zilliz Cloud

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Zilliz Cloud

| Attribute | Vald | Zilliz Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 48.4 (36% (low)) | 79.8 (73% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 18 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 1 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 1,718 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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":"NGT","deployment":"self_hosted","storage_tier":"disk_backed","product_class":"dedicated_dbms","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 | - | 4 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"LangChain"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB","CN","SG","DE"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | - | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"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 |
| pricing.model | - | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | - | free |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 51 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.8.0","date":"2026-08-26T06:00:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.17","date":"2025-07-04T09:40:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.16","date":"2024-12-24T06:46:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.15","date":"2024-12-05T04:29:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.14","date":"2024-10-11T20:54:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.13","date":"2024-08-06T14:18:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.12","date":"2024-02-21T10:31:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.11","date":"2024-02-15T07:32:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.10","date":"2023-12-20T04:59:57Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.9","date":"2023-12-06T06:16:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.8","date":"2023-09-15T05:22:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.7","date":"2023-09-14T07:44:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.6","date":"2023-06-15T06:18:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.5","date":"2023-04-25T02:42:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.4","date":"2023-03-29T08:50:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.3","date":"2023-03-13T03:50:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.2","date":"2023-03-03T06:49:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.1","date":"2023-02-09T05:42:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.7.0","date":"2023-01-24T04:14:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/vdaas/vald/releases/tag/v1.6.3","date":"2022-10-19T07:07:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.6.3"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.95 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.6 | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fvdaas%2Fvald&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | Vald | Zilliz Cloud |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Managed |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | - | ✓ |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | NGT | - |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | - | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Metadata filtering | - | Post-filter |
| Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion) | - | ✓ |
| Built-in BM25 / lexical | - | ✓ |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Quantization | - | - |
| 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 | - | Proprietary |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS | Dedicated DBMS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:18:12.213Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*