Pick Qdrant if
rAG teams who will run OSS or Cloud Free for $0 (1 GB / 4 GB, ~1M × 768-d vectors) and only open Standard when they need dedicated RAM and a 99.5% SLA.
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Our take
Pick Qdrant if rAG teams who will run OSS or Cloud Free for $0 (1 GB / 4 GB, ~1M × 768-d vectors) and only open Standard when they need dedicated RAM and a 99.5% SLA. Pick Typesense if teams who will stay on the GPL self-host at $0 while they open a first Collection Search, then buy a Typesense Cloud cluster when they do not want to operate the binary — and will confirm the cluster $ at checkout because the
Typesense
open-source search engine
Best for
Qdrant Store and search embeddings you already made
Typesense Typed search you start at $0 on your host (or a Typesense Cloud cluster)
Free plan
Qdrant $0 · you host Docker / Kubernetes / Edge
Typesense $0 · gPL-3.0. You run the Typesense binary. Confirmed by the GitHub license key gpl-3.0
Lowest paid
Qdrant Cloud Standard $85/mo
Typesense Not published by the vendor
Runs where
Qdrant
Typesense Local; you host it
Watch out
Qdrant Free Cloud suspends after 1 idle week
Typesense $0 is the license, not the Cloud cluster
Last checked
Qdrant 2026-10-22 · qdrant.tech/pricing
Typesense 2026-10-23 · cloud.typesense.org/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Typesense if
teams who will stay on the GPL self-host at $0 while they open a first Collection Search, then buy a Typesense Cloud cluster when they do not want to operate the binary — and will confirm the cluster $ at checkout because the marketing pricing page does not print it.
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