Managed Milvus\, from the people who wrote it.
Zilliz Cloud is the commercial service behind Milvus — the open-source vector database built for billion-scale collections — run by the team that maintains the project.
Milvus handles scale most vector stores do not reach\, and having the maintainers operate it removes the hard part. A free tier lets you start without commitment\, and the open-source version is always available if you would rather run it yourself. Its pricing page did not serve details when this was written.
Quick Information
Platform
Web
Pricing
Free tier + usage-based paid
API
Available
Category
Analytics
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Managed by the Milvus maintainers
- Scales to billions of vectors
- Free tier to start
- Open-source Milvus always available
- Multiple index types for tuning
Cons
- Pricing page did not serve details
- Milvus is complex to self-host well
- Costs scale with data volume
- More operational surface than simpler stores