Deploy Managed Milvus
👉 Free Tier Cluster • Built for Billion-Scale Vectors
Deploy Weaviate Sandbox
👉 Up to 50k Free Vectors • 14-Day Free Sandbox
Milvus
- Free Tier Allowance
- Open Source / Lite
- Rate Limit Cap
- Unlimited
- 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
Insight: Milvus
Run Milvus Lite locally for prototyping, then migrate to Zilliz Cloud or self-managed Kubernetes for production scale.
Weaviate
- Rate Limit Cap
- Sandbox Limited
- MFA Support
- Enforced via Weaviate Cloud console MFA and organization access policies
- Enterprise SSO SAML
- Available on Enterprise with SAML SSO and private networking
- Custom Domain Support
- Private endpoints and custom hostnames on Enterprise deployments
- Supported SDKs
- Python, JavaScript, Go, Java, GraphQL, REST, LangChain, LlamaIndex
- Social Providers
- GitHub and Google OAuth for Weaviate Cloud authentication
- Compliance Standards
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA BAA on Enterprise agreements
- Webhook Fallback Policy
- Batch import webhooks with retry via Weaviate batch API and monitoring alerts
Insight: Weaviate
Use sandbox clusters for development and migrate to dedicated clusters before exceeding 50k object free-tier thresholds.