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Milvus vs Zilliz Cloud
Milvus or Zilliz Cloud? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Only Zilliz Cloud states: Self-hosted, API, Official SDKs, Search over your data
Milvus
Open-source vector database for similarity search, hybrid retrieval, metadata filtering, and AI application data.
Plans
Milvus (Open Source)
Free
- 100% free open-source project under Apache License 2.0
- Self-hosted deployments (Lite, Standalone, Distributed)
- No usage limits from the software itself (hardware-dependent)
Prices checked 2026-09-25 by web search.
Latest updates
- milvus-3.0.2 (v3.0.2)
Milvus v3.0.2 improves filtered search, group-by, and index-building performance and adds external collection and Storage V2 support.
- milvus-2.6.24 (v2.6.24)
Milvus v2.6.24 reduces peak memory during segment loading and improves force-merge planning and filtered search.
- pkg/v3.0.2 (v3.0.2)
Snapshot restores targeting the same collection are now serialized.
Zilliz Cloud
Managed Milvus cloud service for building vector search, retrieval, and AI applications.
Plans
Free
Free
- 5 GB storage
- 2.5M vCUs per month included
- Up to 5 collections
- Community support: Slack invite link
Standard
- From $0 /month (Serverless)
- From $126 /GB/month (Dedicated)
- From $63 per million vectors / month
- From $16 per million vectors / month
- From $5 per million vectors / month
- Fully managed vector databases with core APIs
- Backup, restore, and basic monitoring
- Built-in encryption for data in transit and at rest
- Community support: Slack invite link
Enterprise
- From $197 /month (Dedicated)
- 99.95% uptime SLA
- Audit logs, SSO (SAML 2.0 based), granular RBAC
- Multi-replica and elastic scaling
- Private endpoint and VPC peering
- On-demand Enterprise support included
Business Critical
Price on request
- Global cluster with high-level availability and disaster recovery
- Advanced security: CMEK and full-path in-transit encryption (edge TLS + internal)
- HIPAA-eligible with enhanced data privacy features
- Priority support and rapid incident response
Prices checked 2026-09-26 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Self-hosted — “Deploy on your infrastructure of choice” source
- API — “Intuitive RESTful APIs for control and data plane operations” source
- Official SDKs — “Python, Java, Go, and Node.js SDKs” source
- Search over your data — “Store, index, and manage massive embedding vectors generated by deep neural networks and other machine learning (ML) models.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type II” source
- SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Type II” source
- ISO 27001 — “ISO/IEC 27001” source
- GDPR — “Privacy protections for EU and EEA data.” source
- HIPAA — “U.S privacy regulation safeguarding health information.” source
Latest updates
- 🔐 Enhanced access control — Separate organization and project roles, create custom project roles, assign roles to IdP-synced groups, provision users and groups with SCIM , and manage roles through AP
Separate organization and project roles; create custom roles; capture slow requests for analysis; configure replicas and autoscaling at cluster creation.
- New Region : 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan (GCP)
Tokyo, Japan (GCP).
- New Region : 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom (AWS)
London, United Kingdom (AWS).