Milvus vs Weaviate

Side-by-side comparison of Milvus and Weaviate: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Milvus The High-Performance Vector Database Built for Scale Visit	Weaviate The open-source AI-native vector database built for production-scale search, RAG, and agents Visit
Category	Vector databases	Vector databases
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price		USD 45/mo
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider		Snowflake, ModernBERT (via Weaviate Embeddings); external LLMs connectable
Founded	2019	2019
Headquarters		Amsterdam, Netherlands
Key strengths	·High-performance vector similarity search ·Horizontal scalability to tens of billions of vectors ·Open-source with Apache 2.0 license ·Multiple deployment options (Lite, Standalone, Distributed, Managed Cloud)	·Open-source vector database ·Billion-scale architecture ·Built-in embeddings (no external pipeline required) ·Hybrid search (vector + keyword)