// scorecard · 62/100
verified 1mo agoAgent-readiness23/35
Agent registration (api_key)6/9
Public API5/5
OpenAPI spec0/9
MCP server9/9
llms.txt3/3
Reliability & performance0/15
Actively maintained—
Production-ready0/4
Updated recently—
Pricing12/13
Itemized public pricing6/6
Free tier / trial4/4
Free-tier generosity2/3
Docs & DX10/12
Docs quality6/8
Public API2/2
Quickstart / examples2/2
Security & compliance12/12
SOC 26/6
ISO 270012/2
GDPR2/2
Security / trust page2/2
Openness4/10
Open source0/6
Open / un-gated API4/4
Company maturity1/3
Company size—
Years operating1/1
// rankings · cost per standard workload
#11 in Vector Databasesnot comparable
Serverless vCU: read vCU/query coefficient not documented; floor ~$27. Not derivable
zilliz.com/pricing// overview
Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed Vector Lakebase service powered by Milvus, unifying real-time vector search, lake-scale discovery, and batch analytics on a single source of truth at hundred-billion scale. It offers tiered architecture with hot cache/on-demand compute, full-spectrum search (vector/text/JSON/geospatial), and lake-native storage via Vortex format. Built for reliability (10,000+ enterprises over 8 years), scale (100B+ entities, 10K+ QPS), and lower cost (up to 90% savings via S3).
Best for: Enterprise AI apps needing scalable, reliable, cost-efficient vector search and analytics at 10B-100B+ scale
// pricing
Free tier · generosity 3/5
Includes: 5 GB storage · 2.5M vCUs per month
Limits: Up to 5 collections
Free$0
- 5 GB storage
- 2.5M vCUs/month
- Up to 5 collections
StandardFrom $0/month (Serverless) or $126/GB/month (Dedicated)
- Fully managed vector DB
- Core APIs
- Backup/restore
- Basic monitoring
- Encryption in transit/rest
EnterpriseFrom $197/month (Dedicated)
- 99.95% uptime SLA
- Audit logs/SSO/RBAC
- Multi-replica/elastic scaling
- Private endpoint/VPC peering
- On-demand Enterprise support
Business CriticalCustom
- Global cluster with DR
- CMEK + full-path encryption
- HIPAA-eligible
- Priority support
// security & compliance
✓ SOC 2✓ ISO 27001✓ GDPR✓ HIPAA
// features
- Real-time serving with tiered hot cache/on-demand compute
- Full-spectrum search + hybrid retrieval/reranking
- Lake-native storage (Vortex format, 10x faster reads than Lance)
- 99.95% uptime SLA with multi-replica/elastic scaling
- On-demand compute for zero-copy external data lake jobs
- Private endpoint/VPC peering and CMEK encryption