Qdrant vs Milvus
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Qdrant
Rust vector search engine built for filtering-heavy AI workloads
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Milvus
Open-source vector database for billion-scale search, now lake-native
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.7 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free forever cluster: 1 node, 0.5 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 4GB disk (~1M 768-dim vectors per docs), no card; suspended after 1 week idle. Self-hosted engine free (Apache-2.0) | Milvus is free to self-host under Apache-2.0. Zilliz Cloud Free cluster: 5GB storage, 2.5M vCUs/month, up to 5 collections, community support |
| Paid from | Standard: usage-based, billed hourly on vCPU, RAM, disk and backups | Milvus free (Apache-2.0); Zilliz Cloud Dedicated from $126/mo (Standard) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2021 | 2019 |
| Maker | Independent (Qdrant Solutions GmbH) | Zilliz (LF AI & Data Foundation project) |
| Verdict | Qdrant is one of the strongest open-source vector databases, especially where search has to be combined with complex filters, and its free cloud cluster and permissive licence make it easy to start. Its performance claim... |
Milvus is one of the most capable open-source vector databases, scaling from a laptop library to billions of vectors, and version 3.0's lake-native search is a genuine step forward. Running it distributed takes real oper... |
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