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Zilliz Cloud (managed Milvus)
Fully managed vector database service built on Milvus, with serverless and dedicated cluster tiers
★ 46,629 on GitHub · last commit Nov 10, 2026
What it is
Zilliz Cloud is the managed form of the Milvus project, the dominant open-source vector engine behind many agent memory and retrieval stacks, so it is the natural bridge between self-hosted and managed deployments. It now markets Vector Lakebase tiered storage for cost-sensitive corpora and BYOC for teams that need the engine inside their own cloud.
At a glance
- Vendor
- Zilliz
- Business model
- Open source + paid cloud
- Pricing
- Free tier $0 (5 GB storage, 2.5M vCUs); Standard from $0/mo serverless or $126/mo dedicated; Business Critical from $197/mo dedicated pricing page ↗
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Self-hosting
- Yes, can be self-hosted
- Access
- REST and gRPC, SDKs, BYOC and migration services, marketplace integrations
GitHub activity
This product has a public repository, so we read it nightly from the GitHub API. Stars measure developer attention, not quality or market share.
“Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search” (repository description)
- Stars
- 46,629
- Forks
- 4,325
- Open issues
- 1,471
- Last commit
- Nov 10, 2026
- License (GitHub)
- Apache-2.0
Links and sources
- Official sitezilliz.com/cloud
- Pricingzilliz.com/pricing
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/milvus-io/milvus
Facts verified nov 10, 2026; added nov 10, 2026. Vendor facts come from the vendor’s own pages; benchmark claims are self-reported unless we say otherwise.