Milvus / Zilliz Cloud Pricing(2026)
3 plans compared · From Free · ★ 4.4/5
All Plans & Pricing
Milvus Open Source
Best for: Free, unlimited scale
- ✓ Full features
- ✓ Apache 2.0
- ✓ Community support
Zilliz Cloud Serverless
Best for: Free tier with auto-pause
- ✓ From $0.1/CU-hr
- ✓ Managed Milvus
- ✓ Auto-scaling
Enterprise
Best for: Dedicated Zilliz Cloud clusters or enterprise Milvus support
- ✓ Dedicated clusters
- ✓ SLA
- ✓ Private VPC
Pricing Analysis
Overview
Milvus is fully open-source (Apache 2.0) - self-hosted at no cost. Zilliz Cloud is the managed service: serverless from free, with pay-per-use compute pricing. Dedicated clusters run from $65/month to enterprise custom. Zilliz owns the commercial arm of Milvus.
Which Plan Is Right for You?
Free, unlimited scale. Best for ML engineering teams that can handle deployment and tuning. Powers production at Walmart, eBay, and others.
Free tier with auto-pause. Good for development and low-traffic production. Scales automatically without managing clusters.
Dedicated Zilliz Cloud clusters or enterprise Milvus support. Required at billion-vector scale or when SLA guarantees and support contracts are non-negotiable.
vs. Category Average
Free tier vs. $52/mo average
Our Verdict
Open-source Milvus is the most performant self-hosted vector DB for large scale. Zilliz Cloud is reasonably priced vs. Pinecone. If you're running millions of vectors and have ML infra skills, Milvus self-hosted saves significant money.
