Milvus vs Zilliz

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

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	Milvus The High-Performance Vector Database Built for Scale Visit	Zilliz The Vector Lakebase for AI — real-time serving, iterative discovery, and batch analytics at hundred-billion scale Visit
Category	Vector databases	Vector databases
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider
Founded	2019	2017
Headquarters		San Francisco, USA
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)	·Billion-scale vector similarity search ·Fully managed Vector Lakebase (real-time serving, iterative discovery, batch analytics) ·Lake-native storage on S3 with up to 90% cost reduction ·Full-spectrum search (vector, full-text, JSON, geospatial, hybrid retrieval)