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Zilliz Cloud

A fully managed cloud service for storing, indexing, and searching high-dimensional vector data at scale

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Vendor
Zilliz Inc.
Also known as
zilliz-cloud

Available worldwide

What is Zilliz Cloud?

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

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.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
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.

Free

Free
Free

Community tier with limited resources for non-production use

storage
5 GB/month
collections
5
  • Community support via Slack
  • Vector search
  • Filtered search
  • Range search

Serverless

Pay-per-query pricing, system-managed auto-scaling

Usage-based pricing for variable workloads with automatic scaling

  • Fully managed vector databases
  • Backup and restore
  • Basic monitoring
  • Built-in encryption for data in transit and at rest
  • Vector search
  • Hybrid search
  • Full text search

Dedicated

From $197/month base, plus $0.126/GB storage, dedicated infrastructure
monthly

Reserved, isolated environments for production workloads with guaranteed performance

  • 99.95% uptime SLA
  • SSO (SAML 2.0)
  • Granular RBAC
  • Multi-replica and elastic scaling
  • Global cluster with disaster recovery
  • Advanced security: CMEK and full-path in-transit encryption
  • HIPAA-eligible
  • Audit logs
  • Cross-region backup
  • Continuous data protection
  • All search types
  • MFA
  • API key management
  • Fine-grained metrics with real-time monitoring

BYOC

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Bring Your Own Cloud deployment with custom infrastructure and compliance requirements

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
Deployment
Managed
Serverless / consumption pricing
✓
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
HNSW, IVF, FLAT (brute-force), SCANN, DiskANN
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
cosine, Euclidean
Query
Metadata filtering
Post-filter
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical
✓
Storage
Quantization
-
On-disk vs in-memory
Tiered
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
✓
Horizontal scale
Sharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
-
Licensing
Licence class
Proprietary
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
Dedicated DBMS
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

Integrations (32)

Independently observed
data_integration
  • Fivetran•
  • Google Sheets•
analytics
  • Google Ads•
  • Google Analytics 4•
  • Google Search Console•
  • LinkedIn Ad Analytics•
crm
  • Hubspot•
marketing
  • Marketo•
advertising
  • Microsoft Advertising•
erp
  • NetSuite SuiteAnalytics•
  • Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications•
data_streaming
  • Apache SeaTunnel•
database
  • PostgreSQL/Pgvector
sdk
  • PyMilvus•
ai_assistant
  • Claude⇄
monitoring
  • Prometheus→•
observability
  • HoneyHive⇄•
embeddings
  • Cohere⇄•
  • Voyage AI⇄•
  • Jina AI⇄•
framework
  • Haystack⇄•
  • Langflow⇄•
computer_vision
  • FiftyOne⇄•
llm
  • DSPy⇄•
  • vLLM⇄•
automation
  • n8n⇄•
documentation
  • DocsGPT⇄•
sql
  • Vanna⇄•
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • LangChain

Security & compliance

Independently observed
  • SOC 2 Type II · Type IIactive
  • ISO/IEC 27001active

Zilliz Cloud FAQ

Common questions about Zilliz Cloud, answered from independent, dated evidence.

What is Zilliz Cloud?

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. It is indexed under Vector Databases.

Source: https://zilliz.com/pricing/unlimited-calculator

Is Zilliz Cloud free?

Zilliz Cloud offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Free, Serverless, Dedicated and BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud). Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.

Source: https://zilliz.com/pricing/unlimited-calculator

What platforms does Zilliz Cloud support?

Zilliz Cloud supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.

Source: https://zilliz.com/pricing/unlimited-calculator

Can Zilliz Cloud be self-hosted?

Not fully, on what we have confirmed. Zilliz Cloud is offered as cloud / SaaS and hybrid, and a hybrid deployment usually means some components can run on your own infrastructure while the rest stays vendor-hosted. We have not confirmed a completely self-hosted option, so check with the vendor if that is a requirement.

Source: https://zilliz.com/pricing/unlimited-calculator

What does Zilliz Cloud integrate with?

We have confirmed 19 integrations for Zilliz Cloud, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, LangChain, Fivetran, Google Ads, Google Analytics 4 and Google Search Console, plus 11 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.

Source: https://zilliz.com/pricing/unlimited-calculator

What security certifications does Zilliz Cloud have?

We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Zilliz Cloud. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Zilliz Cloud not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.

Source: https://zilliz.com/trust-center

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Balanced composite 80 / 100
medium · 74%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Security posture800.129.8✓
Reliability980.076.6✓
Pricing transparency1000.055.4✓
Integrations860.043.8✓
Capabilities670.042.5✓
Price level250.041.0✓

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Content

AttributeValueEvidence
Faq6 itemsmediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
CapabilitiesAnn index: HNSW, IVF, FLAT (brute-force), SCANN, DiskANN · Deployment: managed · Serverless: Yes · Storage tier: tiered · Hybrid search: Yes · Licence class: proprietarymediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count1,000mediumsource · 2026-09-03 · 60%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
AvailabilityPrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: …mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 50%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%
Modelfreemiummediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%
Price levelhighmediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%
Starting priceAmount: 197 · Currency: USDmediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Sla pct99.95mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-09-18 · 75%
HipaaYeshighsource · 2026-09-18 · 75%
Iso27001Yeshighsource · 2026-09-18 · 75%
Soc2Yeshighsource · 2026-09-18 · 75%
CertificationsSOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%
Trust centerhttps://zilliz.com/trust-centermediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60%
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