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Embeddings 5.6/10 Jun 18, 2026

Serverless: $4 per million vCUs (read+write), storage $0.025-0.30/GB-mo; free tier 5 GB + 2.5M vCUs + 5 collections. Managed Milvus; dedicated from $99/GB/mo if needed.

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Zilliz Cloud scores 5.6/10 for free value in Embeddings. The main constraint: Paid — pay-as-you-go from $0 (then $4/M vCUs). Serverless: $4 per million vCUs (read+write), storage $0.025-0.30/GB-mo; free tier 5 GB + 2.5M vCUs + 5 collections. Managed Milvus; dedicated from $99/GB/mo if needed.

Category Embeddings Kind Paid plan Renewal monthly Card required No Eligibility anyone

Free value score

5.6 / 10
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Overall 5.6/10
value = 5.6/100
weighted_components_v1
Free value 3.4/10
value = 1.5 $/mo
fixed_log_v1
Search fit 7/10
value = 7/100
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Access 8.8/10
value = 8.8/100
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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.
5 GB Storage
from $0
$4/M vCU
5 GB free

What you get

Paid — pay-as-you-go from $0 (then $4/M vCUs). Serverless: $4 per million vCUs (read+write), storage $0.025-0.30/GB-mo; free tier 5 GB + 2.5M vCUs + 5 collections. Managed Milvus; dedicated from $99/GB/mo if needed.

Up to ~50x cost cut vs provisioned via hot/cold tiering; true scale-to-zero serverless vectors — fully-managed Milvus by its creators

Gotchas

  • Free serverless starting tier

    Zilliz Cloud Serverless starts from $0 with a free allowance; usage beyond that is $4 per million vCUs plus storage ($0.025-0.30/GB-mo).

  • Shared serverless capacity

    Serverless collections run on shared, autoscaled capacity rather than dedicated compute.

Sources

paid value embeddings vector-database
Open service Source ← All Embeddings

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