Weaviate is a paid product with a free trial. The free plan includes free 14-day trial with monthly instant, no-commit entry point and Query Agent monthly max requests: 250. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $18/mo, and no credit card is required to sign up.
About
Weaviate is a vector database and AI database platform for building search, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic AI applications. It supports hybrid search, vector search, multi-tenancy, embeddings, ranking, and auto-scaling through Weaviate Cloud or self-managed deployments.
The hosted offering includes shared and dedicated cloud options, SDKs for Python, Go, TypeScript, and JavaScript, plus GraphQL and REST APIs. The pricing page shows a 14-day free trial for the shared cloud service, with a sandbox cluster and limits such as 250 Query Agent requests on the free trial plan, 7 days of backup retention, and 99.5% availability.
- Vector database for search and RAG
- Hybrid vector and keyword search
- Shared and dedicated cloud deployment
- Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript SDKs
- GraphQL and REST API access
- 14-day free trial on shared cloud
- 250 Query Agent requests included
- 7-day backup retention on free trial
- 99.5% availability on free trial
Free Tier Value
This free tier is perpetual and no credit card is required, but it is capped at a single cluster with tight object, memory, disk, collection, and request limits. Compared with the $45/month Flex plan, it looks like a solid small-project starter worth about 40% of that entry price, so roughly $18/month.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Free 14-day trial with monthly instant, no-commit entry point.
- Sandbox cluster access with Weaviate’s core DB toolkit.
- Hybrid search included in the free trial.
- Dynamic index included in the free trial.
- Compression included in the free trial.
- Multi-tenancy included in the free trial.
- Baseline security with RBAC included.
- Support via the Weaviate Forum included.
- Query Agent monthly max requests: 250.
See Weaviate pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Flex
- minimum monthly spend
- $45/mo
- availability
- 99.5%
- Query Agent rate limit
- 30,000 req/mo
- Pay-as-you-go, monthly, no commitment
- Shared cloud cluster with full core DB toolkit + replication
- Baseline security with RBAC
- Highly available clusters - 99.5% uptime
- Query Agent free tier + usage-based
- Embeddings usage-based
- Standard support - next-business-day Sev 1
Premium
- minimum monthly spend
- from $400/mo
- availability
- 99.95%
- Query Agent rate limit
- Unlimited
- Prepaid contract with predictable spend
- Choice of shared or dedicated deployment
- Trusted reliability - up to 99.95% uptime
- Global coverage on AWS, GCP & Azure
- Query Agent free tier + usage-based
- Embeddings usage-based
- Enterprise support - as fast as 1-hour Sev 1 + dedicated Technical Account Team
Pricing extracted from Weaviate's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Weaviate free forever?
No. Weaviate offers a time-limited trial, after which you subscribe to a paid plan or lose access.
Does Weaviate require a credit card?
No. You can start on Weaviate's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed Weaviate's free tier?
When the trial ends you keep access only by moving to a paid plan. The cheapest is Flex at $45 / month.
What is Weaviate's free tier worth?
Weaviate's free tier is worth about $18 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 62/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
