Milvus Pricing & Free Plan Limits
Complete pricing breakdown for Milvus including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.
Pricing score: 70/100
Is Milvus free?
Yes — the Self-hosted (open source) plan costs nothing. Paid plans start at $126.00/month (Zilliz Cloud Standard (Dedicated)).
The free plan includes
- Full vector database
- Milvus Lite, Standalone, Distributed
Free plan limits
- Users: Unlimited
- Storage: Your own disk
- No managed backups or SLA; community support
Watch out: You pay for servers: 8-16 GB RAM for standalone, 32-128 GB for cluster, plus etcd and object storage and your own ops time.
Plans & Pricing
- Full vector database
- Milvus Lite, Standalone, Distributed
User limit: Unlimited
Storage: Your own disk
- 2.5M vCUs per month
- Up to 5 collections
- Community support
User limit: Not stated
Storage: 5 GB
- Serverless from $0/month
- 30-day free trial
- Backup/restore
- Basic monitoring
- Sales-quoted
- Dedicated clusters from $126/month
- 30-day free trial
- From $197/month
- 99.95% uptime SLA
- Enterprise support
Pricing Issues Reported by Users
Zilliz Cloud Dedicated starts at $126/month and scales with vectors
Dedicated is listed from $126/month (Standard) and $197/month (Enterprise), and cluster rates run from about $5 to $63 per million 768-dim vectors per month depending on tier. Serverless is billed by vCUs, which are hard to predict.
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