Every free vector databases tier that clears our bar in 2026: 9 offers meet the criteria and 0 offers are demoted with a named reason. Our membership test: stores embeddings and answers similarity queries as its primary access path. We could not confirm today's terms for 4 of them, and on all 4 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
Multi-model cloud database — 1 GB storage, 0.25 vCPU, 512 MB memory free. Supports SQL-like queries, graph relations, document storage, real-time subscriptions. Includes team collaboration and RBAC Note — discovered 2026-04-12: Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗
Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://surrealdb.com/, where it says: “SurrealDB is a database and an agent memory layer. Documents, graphs, vectors, and SQL in one engine - and context for your AI agents wherever your data lives.”. How we use this
Open-source vector database — self-hosted free. Cloud: permanent free tier with 1 cluster, 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk, 1 collection, up to 3 tenants, 2,000 embedding requests/day and 1,000 Query Agent requests/month. Paid cloud from $45/mo (Flex)
Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://weaviate.io/pricing, where it says: “Compare pricing options for our different levels of vector database services and solutions.”. How we use this
Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (256MB data). Vector: 10K vectors free. QStash: 1,000 messages/day free
Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://upstash.com/, where it says: “Serverless Redis, Vector and Search databases with low latency and pay-as-you-go pricing.”. How we use this
Postgres development platform: database, Auth, Storage, Realtime and Edge Functions. The Free plan is $0: unlimited API requests, 50,000 monthly active users, a 500 MB database on a shared CPU with 500 MB RAM, 5 GB egress plus 5 GB cached egress, 1 GB file storage, 500,000 Edge Function invocations, and Realtime with 200 concurrent connections and 2 million messages a month. Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity, with a limit of 2 active projects. Pro starts at $25 a month for the first project and includes $10 a month of compute credits, enough for one Micro instance. Best for unlimited usage needs.
Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://supabase.com/, where it says: “Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings.”. How we use this
Open-source AI-native embedding database — Starter plan per month + $5 in free credits. Write per GiB written $2.50, Storage per GiB per month $0.33, Query per TiB queried $0.0075, Network per GiB returned $0.09. Starter plan includes 10 databases and 10 team members.
Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.trychroma.com/, where it says: “Fast, serverless, and scalable infrastructure supporting vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search.”. How we use this
Managed Milvus vector database — free tier: 5 GB storage, 2.5M vector compute units/month, up to 5 collections. Milvus open-source also free to self-host with no limits Best for unlimited usage needs. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-22, we refused the change we considered recording because it named no figure that had moved, and refusing a change is not a confirmation of the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://zilliz.com/, where it says: “Zilliz offers a fully managed Vector Lakebase powered by Milvus, unifying real-time vector search, lake-scale discovery, and AI data operations.”. How we use this
Vector database. The Starter plan is free: up to 2 GB storage, 2M write units and 1M read units a month, 1 GB of egress a month (reads that return data stop at the cap until the next billing period), 5 indexes, 1 project and 2 users, on AWS us-east-1 only. Assistant includes 1 GB storage and 500k input, 300k output and 500k context tokens a month. Three embedding models include 5M tokens a month each; bge-reranker-v2-m3 includes 500 requests a month. Builder is $20/month flat.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it vector_store. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.pinecone.io/, where it says: “Pinecone is a fully managed vector database built for AI. Writes are instantly searchable, indexing is automatic, and queries stay fast at any scale.”. How we use this
Vector database. The Qdrant Cloud Free Tier is a single-node cluster with 0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM and 4 GB disk, for testing and prototypes, with no credit card required; Qdrant says it serves about 1M vectors of 768 dimensions. It includes free Cloud Inference with selected models. An unused free cluster is suspended after 1 week and deleted after 4 weeks of inactivity if not reactivated. Paid clusters are billed on CPU, memory and disk usage.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it vector_store. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://qdrant.tech/pricing/, where it says: “Scale to production with fully managed vector search”. How we use this
Serverless vector database by Upstash — Free: $0 - 200M vectors, 1,536 dimensions, 100 namespaces, 10K daily query limit, 1 GB max total data.
Listed in Databases, and on this page because we labelled it vector. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://upstash.com/, where it says: “Serverless Redis, Vector and Search databases with low latency and pay-as-you-go pricing.”. How we use this
Nothing on this page is demoted today — we hold no disqualifying record against any of these offers.
| Vendor | Free Tier | Key Limits | Durability | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SurrealDB Cloud | Free | Multi-model cloud database — 1 GB storage, 0.25 vCPU, 512 MB memory free. Supports SQL-like queries, graph relations, do... | watch discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown |
2026-09-10 / 2026-09-08 |
| Weaviate | Open Source | Open-source vector database — self-hosted free. Cloud: permanent free tier with 1 cluster, 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory,... | improving effective 2026-06-17 |
2026-09-10 / 2026-09-08 |
| Upstash | Free | Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (256MB data). Vector: 10K vectors free. QStash: 1,000 messages/day free | stable | 2026-09-21 |
| Supabase | Free | Postgres development platform: database, Auth, Storage, Realtime and Edge Functions. The Free plan is $0: unlimited API ... read found the page different · 2026-09-19 |
watch effective 2026-02-01 |
2026-09-19 / 2026-08-17 |
| Chroma | Open Source | Open-source AI-native embedding database — Starter plan per month + $5 in free credits. Write per GiB written $2.50, Sto... | stable | 2026-09-22 |
| Zilliz Cloud | Free | Managed Milvus vector database — free tier: 5 GB storage, 2.5M vector compute units/month, up to 5 collections. Milvus o... | not published no difference measured · 2026-09-22 |
2026-09-22 / 2026-09-06 |
| Pinecone | Free | Vector database. The Starter plan is free: up to 2 GB storage, 2M write units and 1M read units a month, 1 GB of egress ... read found the page different · 2026-09-26 |
stable | 2026-09-26 / 2026-07-31 |
| Qdrant | Free | Vector database. The Qdrant Cloud Free Tier is a single-node cluster with 0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM and 4 GB disk, for testing ... | stable | 2026-09-26 |
| Upstash Vector | Free | Serverless vector database by Upstash — Free: $0 - 200M vectors, 1,536 dimensions, 100 namespaces, 10K daily query limit... read found the page different · 2026-09-17 |
improving discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown |
2026-09-17 / 2026-08-13 |
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 9 free vector databases offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
9 offers meet our criteria on this page. Of those, 4 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 2 a recorded narrowing, 2 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 1. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.
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