Best Qdrant alternatives

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Zilliz

Free

Vector databases

The Vector Lakebase for AI — real-time serving, iterative discovery, and batch analytics at hundred-billion scale

Free tier at $0 (5 GB storage, 2.5M vCUs/month, up to 5 collections). Standard from $0/month (Serverless) or from $126/GB/month (Dedicated). Enterprise from $197/month (Dedicated). Business Critical: custom pricing. BYOC available.

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Vespa

Free

Vector databases

AI Search Platform for large-scale vector search, ranking, and real-time inference

Free trial available

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MongoDB Atlas Vector Search

Free

Vector databases

Build intelligent applications powered by semantic search and generative AI with a native, full-featured vector database.

Free tier available; paid plans for Atlas (Enterprise)

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Pinecone

Free

Vector databases

The fully managed vector database built for knowledgeable AI — fast retrieval, accurate results, lower costs.

Free tier · pay-as-you-go scaling

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Weaviate

Free

Vector databases

The open-source AI-native vector database built for production-scale search, RAG, and agents

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turbopuffer

Free

Vector databases

Fast vector and full-text search engine built on object storage — 10x cheaper and infinitely scalable

10x cheaper than alternatives · cost calculator available

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Chroma

Free

Vector databases

Open-source search infrastructure for AI — vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search at scale

Free open-source (Apache 2.0) · Cloud available

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Anyscale

Free

AI infrastructure

Production-scale AI infrastructure powered by Ray — built for foundation model workloads

Pay-as-you-go with $100 free credit to start. Hosted and BYOC options. Compute billed per hour (e.g. CPU-only AC $0.0135/hr, NVIDIA T4 AC $0.5682/hr, NVIDIA L4 AC $0.9542/hr, NVIDIA A10G AC $1.3635/hr, NVIDIA A100 AC $4.9591/hr). Committed contracts available for volume discounts.

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Jina AI

Free

Chat assistants

Your Search Foundation, Supercharged — multimodal embeddings, reranking, and LLM-ready web reading.

Free tier (no credit card needed) · API key billing for higher rate limits

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Fireworks AI

Free

AI infrastructure

The fastest inference platform for generative AI — train, tune, and deploy open models at production scale.

Serverless inference billed per token (input/output/cached); embeddings from $0.008/1M tokens; training from $0.50/1M tokens (LoRA SFT, models up to 16B); on-demand GPU from $8.00/hr (H100) to $20.00/hr (GB300).