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title: Milvus vs Weaviate
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entities:
  -
    role: a
    slug: milvus
    name: Milvus
    type: Thing
    profile_url: "https://saasspecs.com/item/milvus/?format=md"
  -
    role: b
    slug: weaviate
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    profile_url: "https://saasspecs.com/item/weaviate/?format=md"
---
# Milvus vs Weaviate

## Pair

- **A**: Milvus
- **B**: Weaviate

## Entity A

- **Title**: [Milvus](https://saasspecs.com/item/milvus/?format=md)
- **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
- **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

## Entity B

- **Title**: [Weaviate](https://saasspecs.com/item/weaviate/?format=md)
- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://weaviate.io
- **Email**: support@weaviate.io
- **Address**: 449 Herengracht, Amsterdam, North Holland, 1017 BR, Netherlands
- **Coordinates**: 52.3676, 4.8839
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy Weaviate Stack Layer](https://console.weaviate.cloud/register)

### Summary

AI-native vector database with hybrid search, generative modules, and multi-tenant cloud sandboxes.

### Description

Weaviate Cloud hosts vector collections with built-in vectorization modules, hybrid keyword-plus-vector search, and GraphQL APIs. Developers ship semantic search and RAG without managing HNSW index topology.

### Expert insight

Use sandbox clusters for development and migrate to dedicated clusters before exceeding 50k object free-tier thresholds.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: 50,000 Objects
- **Rate Limit Cap**: Sandbox Limited
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 0.04 USD/GB
- **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

## Facts (machine-readable)

| axis | unit | a_value | b_value | a_display | b_display |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free Tier Allowance | Objects |  | 50000 | Open Source / Lite | 50,000 Objects |
| Session Lifetime | Hours | 24 | 24 | 24 Hours | 24 Hours |
| Overage Fee per 1k MAU | USD | 0 | 0.035 | 0 USD | 0.04 USD/GB |

## Metrics

- **Free Tier Allowance**: Open Source / Lite / 50,000 Objects
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours / 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 0 USD / 0.04 USD/GB

## Comparison context

This comparison covers the following catalog entities:

- [Milvus](https://saasspecs.com/item/milvus/?format=md) (a)
- [Weaviate](https://saasspecs.com/item/weaviate/?format=md) (b)