---
lang: en
type: Thing
title: Milvus
canonical: "https://saasspecs.com/item/milvus/"
hvce_version: 1
tenant: saasspecs
slug: milvus
record_kind: entity-profile
content_sha256: 5f24ba543329bd40e5a0cb9ad6cff65a1fd27107a5d863cbabdf2bd63b37965a
indexed_at: "2026-06-12T19:03:40.170Z"
license: citation-free
entities:
  -
    role: subject
    slug: milvus
    name: Milvus
    type: Thing
    profile_url: "https://saasspecs.com/item/milvus/?format=md"
---
# Milvus

Open-source vector database with billion-scale ANN indexing and optional Zilliz Cloud managed hosting.

## Record

- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://milvus.io
- **Email**: support@zilliz.com
- **Address**: 5201 Stevens Creek Boulevard, San Jose, California, 95129, United States
- **Coordinates**: 37.323, -121.9486
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy Milvus Stack Layer](https://cloud.zilliz.com/signup)

### Summary

Open-source vector database with billion-scale ANN indexing and optional Zilliz Cloud managed hosting.

### Description

Milvus delivers high-performance approximate nearest neighbor search with rich filtering, hybrid sparse-dense retrieval, and Kubernetes-native deployment. Zilliz Cloud offers fully managed Milvus clusters for production workloads.

### Expert insight

Run Milvus Lite locally for prototyping, then migrate to Zilliz Cloud or self-managed Kubernetes for production scale.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: Open Source / Lite
- **Rate Limit Cap**: Unlimited
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 0 USD
- **MFA Support**: Enforced via Zilliz Cloud console MFA and organization access policies
- **Enterprise SSO SAML**: Available on Enterprise with SAML SSO and dedicated clusters
- **Custom Domain Support**: Private cloud and hybrid deployments on Enterprise tiers
- **Supported SDKs**: Python, JavaScript, Go, Java, REST, gRPC, LangChain, LlamaIndex
- **Social Providers**: GitHub OAuth for Zilliz Cloud account login
- **Compliance Standards**: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR; HIPAA on Enterprise agreements
- **Webhook Fallback Policy**: Change data capture and bulk import with configurable retry on failed batches