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
Weaviate’s pricing page explicitly shows a 14-day Free Trial and the cheapest paid plan is Flex at $45/month, so the conservative free-trial value is $45 × 14/30 ≈ $21/month equivalent. The free trial includes the core DB toolkit plus hybrid search, dynamic index, compression, multi-tenancy, RBAC, forum support, and a 250-request monthly Query Agent cap, which is close to full parity but still capped, so 90% is appropriate. No explicit no-credit-card claim appears on the page, and the trial is not unbounded, so always_free_unbounded is false.
What's included in the free tier
- 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
- Query Agent monthly max requests
- 30000
- Availability
- 99.5%
- Severity 1 response time
- 1 business day
- Backup retention
- 7 days
- Pricing minimum
- $45 / month
- Pay-as-you-go monthly entry point
- Shared cloud cluster
- Full core DB toolkit
- Hybrid search
- Replication
- Dynamic index
- Vector compression
- Multi-tenancy
Premium
- Query Agent monthly max requests
- Unlimited
- Availability
- 99.95%
- Severity 1 response time
- 1 hour
- Backup retention
- 45 days
- Pricing minimum
- $400 / month
- Prepaid contract
- Shared or dedicated deployment
- Higher reliability
- Metrics endpoint
- Global coverage for dedicated deployment
- Enterprise support
- Training and experts
- HIPAA compliant
Pricing extracted from Weaviate's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
