Weaviate Cloud

Embeddings 5.2/10

Serverless: ~$25/mo minimum, then $0.095 per 1M vector dimensions/month (storage) — among the cheapest per-dimension vector rates; free tier (100K objects, 1 GB) to start.

Weaviate Cloud scores 5.2/10 for free value in Embeddings. The main constraint: Free tier (100K objects, 1 GB) to start; Serverless then ~$25/mo minimum, then $0.095 per 1M vector dimensions/month (storage) — among the cheapest per-dimension vector rates.

Category Embeddings Kind Paid plan

Free value score

5.2 / 10

Show the math

Overall 5.2/10

value = 5.2/100

weighted_components_v1

Free value 2/10

value = 0.3 $/mo

fixed_log_v1

Search fit 8/10

value = 8/100

policy_score_v1

Access 8.8/10

value = 8.8/100

policy_score_v1

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.

1 GB Storage

$25/mo min

$0.095/M dim

What you get

Free tier (100K objects, 1 GB) to start; Serverless then ~$25/mo minimum, then $0.095 per 1M vector dimensions/month (storage) — among the cheapest per-dimension vector rates.

$0.095 per 1M dimensions — lowest published per-dimension vector storage rate here; dimension-based pricing rewards compression

Gotchas

No gotchas documented yet. Contribute one if you know a constraint we missed.

Sources

"it states that pricing starts at $25/month, with a storage cost of $0.095 per 1M vector dimensions per month."
https://forum.weaviate.io/t/question-about-weaviate-pricing-differences-between-public-pricing-and-actual-cluster-pricing/20316
"Weaviate: $0.095/GB/month. Qdrant: $0.28/GB/month."
https://www.actian.com/blog/databases/the-hidden-cost-of-vector-database-pricing-models/

paid value embeddings vector-database

Open service ← All Embeddings

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