What is Zilliz Cloud?
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.
Zilliz Cloud pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier + pay-as-you-go serverless/dedicated. Enterprise and Business Critical plans available.
Free
FreeStarting point for learning and personal projects
- vCUs
- 2.5M per month
- storage
- 5 GB
- collections
- 5
- Shared managed environment
- Basic API access
Standard
Fully managed essentials for non-critical workloads. Best for prototypes and testing environments
- Fully managed vector databases with core APIs
- Backup and restore
- Basic monitoring
- Encryption in transit and at rest
Enterprise
Enterprise-grade reliability and controls. Best for production applications
- 99.95% uptime SLA
- Audit logs
- SSO (SAML 2.0)
- Granular RBAC
- Multi-replica and elastic scaling
- Private endpoint and VPC peering
- On-demand Enterprise support
Business Critical
Contact salesRegulated-ready with maximum resilience. Best for healthcare, finance, and highly regulated mission-critical systems
- Global cluster with high-level availability and disaster recovery
- CMEK and full-path in-transit encryption (edge TLS + internal)
- HIPAA-eligible with enhanced data privacy
- Priority support and rapid incident response
Add-ons
- On-demand Compute
- BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud)
What Zilliz Cloud does
The capabilities that matter for vector databases, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment
- Managed
- Serverless / consumption pricing
- ✓
- ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
- -
- Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
- -
- Metadata filtering
- -
- Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
- ✓
- Built-in BM25 / lexical
- ✓
- Quantization
- -
- On-disk vs in-memory
- Tiered
- Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
- ✓
- Horizontal scale
- Sharded / distributed
- Consistency
- -
- Licence class
- Proprietary
- Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
- Dedicated DBMS
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Zilliz Cloud alternatives
Other vector databases we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Zilliz Cloud, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 80 | 18.00 | 1440.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 17.00 | 1141.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 98 | 10.00 | 975.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 8.00 | 800.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 100 | 6.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"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"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |