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Zilliz Cloud

Zilliz Cloud

62/100

Managed Milvus vector database; serverless pay-per-operation.

zilliz.com

// scorecard · 62/100

verified 1mo ago
methodology →
Agent-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

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