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 Voyage AI if rAG teams who will burn the 200 million free tokens on voyage-4 / voyage-4-lite and then pay $0.02–$0.12 per million, not a team looking for a $20 chat seat.
Best for
Qdrant Store and search embeddings you already made
Voyage AI Retrieval quality you can meter in tokens
Free plan
Qdrant $0 · you host Docker / Kubernetes / Edge
Voyage AI $0 · first 200 million tokens on voyage-4-large, voyage-4, voyage-4-lite, voyage-context-4, and voyage-code-4. First 50 million on voyage-finance-2 / voyage-law-2 / voyage-code-2. Multimodal: first 200M text tokens and 150B pixels
Lowest paid
Qdrant Cloud Standard $85/mo
Voyage AI Text embed $0.02
Next step up
Qdrant
Voyage AI Rerank $0.05
Watch out
Qdrant Free Cloud suspends after 1 idle week
Voyage AI No public seat
Last checked
Qdrant 2026-10-22 · qdrant.tech/pricing
Voyage AI 2026-10-22 · docs.voyageai.com/docs/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Voyage AI if
rAG teams who will burn the 200 million free tokens on voyage-4 / voyage-4-lite and then pay $0.02–$0.12 per million, not a team looking for a $20 chat seat.
Read the Voyage AI page