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Qdrant pricing & features
Rust-based vector DB — high performance, OSS, managed cloud
Rust-powered vector DB with rich filtering. OSS (Apache 2.0), managed Cloud with Free 1GB cluster, hybrid + BYOC + private deployments.
Data sourced from vendor documentation · Last updated May 2026
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free Forever | Free | Single-node 0.5 vCPU / 1 GB RAM / 4 GB disk. Free cloud inference models. |
| Standard | Free | Usage-based. Dedicated resources, flexible scaling. 99.5% SLA. Backups + DR. Free inference tokens. |
| Self-Host (OSS) | Free | Apache 2.0 licensed. Run for free. |
| Hybrid Cloud (BYOC) | Custom | Run managed cluster on your infra. Data stays in your network. |
| Premium | Custom | Min spend required. SSO + private VPC links. 99.9% SLA. 24x7 enterprise support. |
| Private Cloud | Custom | Dedicated + isolated. Custom SLA. Large enterprise. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | billing model | Hourly by vCPU + memory (GB) + storage (GB) + backup + inference tokens | Billing |
| — | cluster api | REST + gRPC | Access methods |
| — | filtering | Rich payload filtering with indexes (keyword, geo, range, bool) | Filters |
| — | language | Rust (core) | Implementation |
| — | quantization | Scalar, binary, product quantization | Quantization |
| — | sharding | Automatic sharding + replication | Distributed |
| — | snapshots | Full + incremental snapshots | Snapshots |
Features
- BYOC (Hybrid Cloud) — Managed Qdrant in your cloud account.
- Cloud Inference — Hosted embedding models for free tokens.
- Cluster Monitoring — Prometheus metrics + health.
- Collections — Typed collections with named vectors + payload schema.
- Distributed — Horizontal sharding + Raft replication.
- Hybrid Search — Sparse + dense + keyword in one query.
- Multi-Vector — Multiple vectors per point (text + image, etc.).
- Open Source — Apache 2.0 licensed.
- Payload Filters — Rich filter DSL with indexed fields.
- Quantization — Scalar + product + binary for memory reduction.
- RBAC — API-key scopes + roles.
- Snapshots + Restore — Backup + DR primitives.
- Sparse Vectors — BM25 + SPLADE sparse embeddings natively.
Developer interfaces
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| sdk-ts | @qdrant/js-client-rest | sdk | 1.x |
| mcp | Qdrant MCP | mcp | — |
| rest-api | Qdrant REST API | rest | v1 |
| grpc | Qdrant gRPC | other | — |
| sdk-go | go-client | sdk | 1.x |
| sdk-java | java-client | sdk | 1.x |
| sdk-python | qdrant-client (py) | sdk | 1.x |
| sdk-rust | qdrant-client (rust) | sdk | 1.x |
| sdk-csharp | qdrant-dotnet | sdk | 1.x |
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