About
Zilliz Cloud Free Tier is a hosted vector database offering from Zilliz, built on the open-source Milvus engine. It provides a managed environment for creating collections, ingesting vectors, and running similarity search through Python, Node.js, or a REST API.
The free tier includes two collections with up to 1,000,000 768-dimensional vectors, one full platform user, and built-in embedding pipelines. It also supports integrations with tools such as Hugging Face, LlamaIndex, and OpenAI, and is available on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Two collections included
- 1,000,000 768-dimensional vectors
- One full platform user
- Python, Node.js, and REST API
- Built-in embedding pipeline
- OpenAI, Hugging Face, and LlamaIndex integrations
- AWS, Azure, and GCP availability
Free Tier Value
The page explicitly says the free tier includes full platform access, 2 collections, up to 1,000,000 768-dimensional vectors, one full platform user with unlimited invited users, integrations, Python/Node.js/REST API support, and built-in embeddings, with no credit card required. Because the page does not show a concrete paid-plan price for the next tier and the free tier is capped, I cannot conservatively compute a monthly dollar value from a specific paid plan, so free_tier_value_usd_per_month is null. Feature parity is high because the free tier appears to expose core managed-vector-database functionality, but it is still capped on collections and users.
What's included in the free tier
- Powered by Milvus, the open source vector database foundation.
- Two collections with up to 1,000,000 768-dimensional vectors.
- One full platform user with unlimited invited users.
- Integrations with Hugging Face, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, and more.
- Support for Python, Node.js, and REST API.
- Built-in text embeddings via the embedding pipeline.
- No credit card required to start.
See Zilliz Cloud Free Tier pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Zilliz Cloud pay-as-you-go
- collections
- more than 2
- vectors
- more than 1,000,000 768-dimensional vectors
- platform users
- more than 1 full platform user
- deployment
- AWS, Azure, and GCP
- uptime
- 99.95% monthly uptime
- Fully-managed Milvus service
- Vector similarity search
- Built-in embedding pipelines
- Integrations with popular AI tools and frameworks
- Multi-cloud availability
- Security and governance features
Business Critical Plan
- uptime
- 99.95% monthly uptime
- cloud regions
- 8 regions worldwide
- scale
- up to 500 CUs
- items
- over 100 billion items
- Enterprise-level vector search
- High availability
- Security and governance
- RBAC
- Multi-cloud deployment
- Designed for large-scale production workloads
Pricing extracted from Zilliz Cloud Free Tier's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
