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Zilliz Cloud
Managed Milvus cloud service for building vector search, retrieval, and AI applications.
Zilliz Cloud provides a managed Milvus service for storing vectors and running similarity, semantic, lexical, hybrid, and full-text searches. It includes clusters, embeddings, reranking, migrations, backups, monitoring, access controls, and private networking.
Developers and data teams use it for retrieval-augmented generation, recommendation, semantic search, and AI data infrastructure. A Free option is available; Serverless uses pay-per-operation billing, while Dedicated uses reserved compute. Storage, data transfer, backups, and audit logs may cost extra.
Features
- Managed Milvus clusters for vector search applications
- Similarity, semantic, lexical, hybrid, and full-text search
- Integrated embedding and reranking functions
- Import and migration from Pinecone, MongoDB, Qdrant, and PostgreSQL
- Backups, scheduled backups, cross-region copies, and restore
- Fine-grained access control, SSO, and audit logs
- RESTful APIs and SDK support for Python, Java, Go, Node.js, and cURL
- Deployment options include Free, Serverless, Dedicated, and BYOC
Use cases
- Build retrieval-augmented generation applications
- Search documents by semantic and keyword similarity
- Recommend products, content, or records using vector similarity
- Migrate vector data from another database
- Run batch searches against data in external object storage
- Operate production vector search with dedicated infrastructure
Pros
Cons
Latest updates
- 🐦 Milvus v3.0.x Public Preview is now available on Dedicated clusters — upgrade from the console with no downtime and no index rebuild: (Milvus v3.0.x)
ORDER BY, query aggregation, search aggregation, regular expression filtering, MinHash, TEXT, schema changes, and entity-level TTL.
- 🚚 Zero Downtime Migration migrates collections into an existing Dedicated cluster with no downtime, syncing incremental changes for up to 7 days before cutover.
Zero Downtime Migration, Data Backfill, CMEK with Google Cloud clusters, two more BYOC regions, and SSO enforcement exemptions.
- 🐦 Serverless and Free clusters are now compatible with Milvus v3.0.x — Zilliz Cloud has upgraded Serverless clusters to Milvus v3.0.x, so you can use the following features with no action on your sid
Serverless and Free clusters are now compatible with Milvus v3.0.x, with no action on your side.
- 🔐 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).
Capabilities
- Self-hosted — “Deploy on your infrastructure of choice” source
- API — “Intuitive RESTful APIs for control and data plane operations” source
- Official SDKs — “User-friendly SDKs in multiple programming languages” source
- Search over your data — “Store, index, and manage massive embedding vectors generated by deep neural networks and other machine learning (ML) models.” source
Get it
Security
Pricing
- Starting price
- $126/mo
- Prices checked
- 2026-10-26
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)
- 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