- vendor
- Zilliz
- whatItIs
- Fully managed cloud service built on Milvus, the open-source vector database engineered for billions of vectors. Combines dense vector, sparse (BM25/SPLADE), and full-text search in a single API call across multi-cloud deployments.
- hosting
- both
- pricingModel
- serverless free tier (5 GB, 2.5 M vCUs); serverless paid at $4/M vCUs; dedicated from ~$126/GB/mo
- modelProviders
- agnostic
- stateModel
- persistent indexes (HNSW, DiskANN, IVF, SCANN)
- toolModel
- REST API + Python/Java/Go/Node SDKs
- includesBrowser
- false
- includesMemory
- false
- longRunning
- persistent storage queryable anytime
- hitlSupport
- false
- observability
- built-in dashboard + metrics
- maturity
- ga
- launched
- 2021
- notes
- Milvus 2.6 introduced combined vector and full-text queries in a single call. 10,000+ enterprise deployments. Powers 10T+ vectors across production users. BYOC available; SOC 2 + GDPR + HIPAA on Zilliz Cloud.