Weaviate Pricing & Free Plan Limits
Complete pricing breakdown for Weaviate including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.
Pricing score: 80/100
Is Weaviate free?
Yes — the Self-Hosted (Open Source) plan costs nothing.
Free plan limits
- Users: Unlimited
- Storage: Limited by your infrastructure
- No managed operations, manual scaling, no enterprise support, requires DevOps expertise
Watch out: You pay for infrastructure. Memory-intensive workloads need significant compute. No SLA or support.
Plans & Pricing
Self-Hosted (Open Source)
$0.00/free
User limit: Unlimited
Storage: Limited by your infrastructure
Flex (Shared Cloud)
Free
User limit: Unlimited
Storage: Pay per vector dimension
Plus (Annual)
Free
User limit: Unlimited
Storage: Committed capacity
Dedicated Cloud
Free
User limit: Unlimited
Storage: Dedicated resources
Pricing Issues Reported by Users
Infrastructure costs escalate with dataset size
G2 notes Weaviate's 'resource-intensive nature that can lead to increased infrastructure costs depending on dataset size and query complexity.' Self-hosted requires significant compute. Cloud pricing changed in Oct 2025, adding complexity.
Frequency: 6%Impact: 5/100