Zilliz Cloud free tier includes Managed Milvus vector database — free tier: 5 GB storage, 2.5M vector compute units/month, up to… Not verified — we refused the change we last considered recording, on 2026-09-22. Compare with 7 alternatives in Databases.

Zilliz Cloud Free Tier 2026

Subtypes in Databases: vector — stores embeddings and answers similarity queries as its primary access path. 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.

Limits, pricing history, and 7 alternatives. Verified September 2026. Last updated 2026-09-22.

Zilliz Cloud's free tier offers Managed Milvus vector database — free tier: 5 GB storage, 2.5M vector compute units/month, up to 5 collections… 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 and are not rating this offer today.

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Tier
Free
Category
Pricing Page
Verified
2026-09-07
Last read
2026-09-22
The day we last read the vendor's page. Our records hold a confirmation of these terms from 2026-09-07, and we have read the page since without confirming them: 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.

Free Tier Details

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

When You'll Outgrow Zilliz Cloud's Free Tier

Pricing Change History (0 recorded)

No recorded pricing changes for Zilliz Cloud — but 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 tell you that nothing changed. Treat the empty history as a statement about our records, not about this vendor's pricing.

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Alternatives in Databases

How Zilliz Cloud compares against every one of the 7 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.

Service Free Tier Stability
Zilliz Cloud Free unrated
Chroma Open Source stable
Upstash Vector Free stable
Supabase Free stable
Weaviate Open Source stable
SurrealDB Cloud Free caution
Upstash Free stable
Turbopuffer Pay-as-you-go unrated

Left out of this list: Koyeb (shares no subtype with this product), Neon (shares no subtype with this product), MongoDB Atlas (shares no subtype with this product), CockroachDB (shares no subtype with this product), Turso (shares no subtype with this product), Firebase (shares no subtype with this product), Databricks (Lakeflow Connect) (none of this category's subtypes apply), Convex (shares no subtype with this product), Appwrite Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Aiven (shares no subtype with this product), Xata (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare D1 (shares no subtype with this product), Nhost (shares no subtype with this product), PocketBase (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare KV (shares no subtype with this product), Momento (shares no subtype with this product), Nile (shares no subtype with this product), DynamoDB Local (runs only on a developer machine), Redis Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Prisma Accelerate (extends another product), LanceDB (shares no subtype with this product), Gel (we have not classified this record), CrateDB (shares no subtype with this product), Neo4j AuraDB (shares no subtype with this product), InfluxDB Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Hasura (extends another product), 8base.com (shares no subtype with this product), codehooks.io (shares no subtype with this product), Couchbase Capella (shares no subtype with this product), filess.io (shares no subtype with this product), restdb.io (shares no subtype with this product), SeaTable (none of this category's subtypes apply), skyvia.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), StackBy (none of this category's subtypes apply), Google Cloud BigQuery (shares no subtype with this product), Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL (shares no subtype with this product), PlanetScale (we have not classified this record). Each is still listed in Databases, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

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Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The list above is every one of the 7 entries in that order, not a prefix of it. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Zilliz Cloud free?
We cannot confirm that today. When we last read the page we cite for Zilliz Cloud, 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 we publish for it. Our stored record says Zilliz Cloud offers a free tier: Free. 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. We have not confirmed these terms against the source we cite, so treat them as unverified.
What is Zilliz Cloud's free tier?
We cannot confirm that today. When we last read the page we cite for Zilliz Cloud, 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 we publish for it. Our stored record calls Zilliz Cloud's free tier "Free". 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. We have not confirmed these terms against the source we cite, so treat them as unverified.
Is Zilliz Cloud's free tier reliable?
When we last read the page we cite for Zilliz Cloud, 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 we publish for it.
Is Zilliz Cloud's free tier good for production?
Zilliz Cloud's free tier is usable for prototyping and development. When we last read the page we cite for Zilliz Cloud, 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 we publish for it.
What changed in Zilliz Cloud's pricing?
When we last read the page we cite for Zilliz Cloud, 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 we publish for it. We publish no change we refused to record, so we cannot tell you that nothing changed.
What are the best free alternatives to Zilliz Cloud?
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 7 free alternatives to Zilliz Cloud in Databases, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 6 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 1 is listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow Zilliz Cloud's free tier?
We record 5 GB storage as the limit, but 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 that threshold today. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.
What category is Zilliz Cloud in?
Zilliz Cloud is categorized under Databases on AgentDeals. We list 7 other Databases services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.

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