Zilliz
Pricing Strategy
Self-serve, free tier
As of September 3, 2026, Zilliz's pricing: Standard Dedicated starts at $126/mo and Standard Serverless at $0, with storage clusters at $5 per million vectors per month and performance-optimized clusters at $63 per million vectors per month; a solo developer can start free, but any serious production workload will require a conversation with sales at the Business Critical or BYOC tiers, where pricing is undisclosed.
Backed by 18 dated facts
Every value derives from a dated, sourced capture — open any fact for its source.
Every value derives from a dated, sourced capture — open any fact for its source.
Business Critical
Contact sales
BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud)
Contact sales
Enterprise (Dedicated)
$197/mo
Free
$0/mo
free
On-demand Compute
not stated
Standard (Dedicated)
$126/mo
Standard (Serverless)
$0/mo
Details
Modelhybrid
Usage capacity Optimized Cluster per_unit16 usd per million vectors month
Usage performance Optimized Cluster per_unit63 usd per million vectors month
Usage tiered Storage Cluster per_unit5 usd per million vectors month
Pricing Change Historydated events · values unlock with a key
Pricing changed: BYOC tier contact-sales flag · high significance
Pricing tier added: BYOC tier name · high significance
Pricing changed: Storage Standard Dedicated usage rate · high significance
Pricing changed: Enterprise Dedicated tier monthly price · high significance
Pricing tier added: Enterprise Dedicated tier name · high significance
Pricing tier added: On Demand Compute tier name · high significance
Pricing changed: Standard Dedicated tier monthly price · high significance
Pricing tier added: Standard Dedicated tier name · high significance
Every pricing fact on this pagekey · value · provenance · dated · sourced
| Fact | Value | Provenance | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.model | hybrid | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.business-critical.is_contact_sales | yes | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.business-critical.name | Business Critical | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.byoc.is_contact_sales | yes | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.byoc.name | BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.enterprise-dedicated.monthly_usd | 197 usd per month | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.enterprise-dedicated.name | Enterprise (Dedicated) | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.free.is_free | yes | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.free.monthly_usd | 0 usd per month | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.free.name | Free | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.on-demand-compute.name | On-demand Compute | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.standard-dedicated.monthly_usd | 126 usd per month | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.standard-dedicated.name | Standard (Dedicated) | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.standard-serverless.monthly_usd | 0 usd per month | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.tier.standard-serverless.name | Standard (Serverless) | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.usage.capacity-optimized-cluster.per_unit | 16 usd per million vectors month | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.usage.performance-optimized-cluster.per_unit | 63 usd per million vectors month | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
| pricing.usage.tiered-storage-cluster.per_unit | 5 usd per million vectors month | company stated | 2026-09-03 | zilliz.com/pricing |
Pricing across Vector DatabasesZilliz ranked in place · tap through for each read
| Company | Pricing read | Facts |
|---|---|---|
| Pinecone | Self-serve, free tier | 31 |
| Weaviate | Self-serve, free tier | 22 |
| Epsilla | Enterprise, sales-led | 19 |
| Zilliz this record | Self-serve, free tier | 18 |
| Chroma | Self-serve, free tier | 14 |
| TopK | Usage-based | 10 |
| Qdrant | Hybrid | 9 |
| Vectara | Enterprise, sales-led | 8 |
| Turbopuffer | Hybrid | 7 |
| LanceDB | Free | 1 |
No observed pricing facts yet for Activeloop, KDB.AI, Marqo, Milvus, MyScale and Vespa.
Get pricing for zilliz.com via API / MCPevery field dated and sourced
RESTopen tier
GET https://api.bixel.com/v1/companies/zilliz.com/facts?dimension=pricing
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}MCPfor agents
# any MCP client (Claude, agents)
const record = await bixel.get_company_facts({ domain: "zilliz.com", dimension: "pricing" })
# returns the pricing record above,
# each value with its source_url + as_of,
# ready to reason overBuild on the company record. One key, REST + MCP, every signal dated and sourced back to the page it came from.
Public record, read from companies' own pages and boards. Every fact dated and sourced; provenance (observed vs company stated) shown inline.