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Qdrant vs Weaviate

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Qdrant

Qdrant

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Weaviate

Weaviate

Overview
Rating
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Category
Developer Tools
Developer Tools
Subcategory
Open Source Vector Database
Open Source Vector Database
Company
Qdrant
Weaviate
Status
Active
Active
Launch year
2021
2019
Tags
vector-databaseopen-sourcerusthigh-performancesemantic-searchrag
vector-databaseopen-sourcesemantic-searchragembeddingsai-infrastructure
Pricing
Starting price
FreeBest value
$25/mo
Pricing model
Open Source
Open Source
Free plan
Yes
Yes
Free trial
✕
✕
Pricing notes

Open source self-hosted free. Qdrant Cloud free tier (1GB cluster). Managed cloud from $0.014/hour. Enterprise cloud custom pricing.

Open source self-hosted free. Cloud sandbox free. Standard cloud from $25/month. Enterprise cloud custom pricing.

Capabilities
Best for
Production RAG applicationsHigh-throughput vector searchMulti-modal searchHybrid search pipelinesPerformance-sensitive AI applications
RAG application infrastructureSemantic searchMulti-tenant AI applicationsE-commerce product searchKnowledge base retrieval
Target audience
ML engineersData engineersBackend developersAI startup teamsPerformance-focused teams
AI/ML developersBackend engineersData engineersAI startup teamsEnterprise AI teams
AI type
ML Platform
ML Platform
Modalities
TextData
TextData
Technical
Model provider
Agnostic
OpenAICohereHugging FaceAgnostic
Model names
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API available
✓
✓
Open source
✓
✓
Deployment
Open SourceSaaSSelf-hosted
Open SourceSaaSSelf-hosted
Platforms
WebPythonTypeScript
WebPythonJavaScript
Integrations
LangChainLlamaIndexOpenAIAnthropicHugging FaceAny embedding model
LangChainLlamaIndexOpenAIAnthropicHugging FaceCohereAWSGCPAzure
Team collaboration
✕
✕
Trust & security
Security

Open source self-hosted provides complete data control. Qdrant Cloud: review data handling policy. Enterprise cloud includes data handling agreements.

SOC 2 Type II. GDPR compliant. Open source self-hosted provides complete data control. Enterprise cloud includes data handling agreements.

Privacy notes

Self-hosted Qdrant provides complete data control. Qdrant Cloud processes data on Qdrant managed infrastructure.

Open source self-hosted provides full data control. Managed cloud processes data on Weaviate infrastructure. Review privacy policy for cloud deployments.

Verdict
Pros
  • Rust implementation provides strong performance for high-throughput production workloads
  • Sparse vector support enables native hybrid search without separate keyword infrastructure
  • Advanced filtering with minimal performance impact on vector search queries
  • Named vectors support multiple embedding types per data point for multi-modal search
  • Open source with self-hosting option provides complete data control
  • Built-in ML model integrations simplify vectorisation pipeline
  • Hybrid search produces better retrieval quality than pure semantic search
  • Multi-tenancy supports SaaS applications with multiple customers
Cons
  • More setup complexity than managed services like Pinecone
  • Smaller community and fewer learning resources than Weaviate or Pinecone
  • Enterprise support requires cloud or custom deployment engagement
  • More complex to configure than Pinecone managed service
  • Self-hosted requires infrastructure management expertise
  • Cloud pricing less predictable than Pinecone transparent per-index model

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