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Qdrant Cloud Free Tier

Embeddings 4.7/10 Jun 16, 2026

Managed vector search database with a free-forever single-node cluster for prototypes, including free cloud inference on select models.

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Qdrant Cloud Free Tier scores 4.7/10 for free value in Embeddings. The main constraint: Free forever: single-node cluster with 0.5 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 4GB disk, plus free cloud inference with selected models.

Category Embeddings Kind Managed vector database Caveats Single tiny node (0.5 vCPU / 1GB RAM) with no HA; for testing and prototypes, not production scale. Card required No Eligibility anyone

Free value score

4.7 / 10
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Overall 4.7/10
value = 4.7/100
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Free value 3.2/10
value = 1.2 $/mo
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Search fit 5.2/10
value = 5.2/100
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Access 7.6/10
value = 7.6/100
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Key metrics

1 tokens/mo Monthly tokens policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no renewable monthly token allowance is published in this item.
1 tokens/min Tokens/min policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable token throughput allowance is published in this item.
4 GB Storage

What you get

Verified free-forever single-node cluster

Includes free cloud inference with selected models

Purpose-built vector search for AI workloads

First-party managed Qdrant

Gotchas

  • One cluster only

    Free tier allows exactly one single-node cluster; you cannot create additional clusters without upgrading.

  • 4 GB disk cap

    Storage is hard-capped at 4 GB disk; exceeding it requires upgrading to the paid Standard Tier.

  • 1 GB RAM cap

    Cluster RAM is fixed at 1 GB; data that exceeds RAM capacity will degrade query performance or require an upgrade.

  • 0.5 vCPU shared node

    Only 0.5 vCPU is allocated, meaning compute is severely limited and shared — not suitable for latency-sensitive production traffic.

  • No high availability

    Free tier is a single-node cluster with no multi-AZ setup, no automatic failover, and no uptime SLA.

  • No backup & disaster recovery

    Automated backups and disaster recovery are absent on the free tier; custom automation would be needed.

  • No horizontal scaling

    Horizontal scale-out (multi-node, shard rebalancing) is not available; the cluster is a single node only.

  • No GPU indexing

    GPU-accelerated indexing is reserved for Standard and Premium tiers.

  • Cloud inference: free models only

    Cloud inference is included but restricted to free/selected models; paid inference models require the Standard Tier.

  • Community support only

    No SLA-backed support; only community-level best-effort support is available on the free tier.

Sources

  • "Free Tier — Free forever — For testing, and prototypes — Single Node Cluster — 0.5 vCPU / 1GB RAM/ 4 GB Disk. — Free Cloud Inference With Selected Models"

    https://qdrant.tech/pricing/

  • "A free tier cluster only includes 1 single node with the following resources: RAM 1 GB, vCPU 0.5, Disk space 4 GB, Nodes 1. This configuration supports serving about 1 M vectors of 768 dimensions."

    https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud/create-cluster/

  • "Free tier clusters are perfect for prototyping and testing. You don't need a credit card to join. ... If unused, free tier clusters are automatically suspended after 1 week, and deleted after 4 weeks of inactivity if not reactivated."

    https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud/create-cluster/

  • "Today we're announcing $50 million in Series B funding, led by AVP ... We surpassed 250 million downloads across all our packages and 29,000 GitHub stars. We're proud of the enterprises running Qdrant in production, including Canva, Bazaarvoice, HubSpot, Roche, Bosch, and OpenTable."

    https://qdrant.tech/blog/series-b-announcement/
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