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.
Read the Qdrant pageQdrant vs Weaviate
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 Weaviate if teams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (100k objects, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB disk) or self-host, then buy Flex at $45/month when they need HA, 1,000 collections, and pay-as-you-go dimensions.
Best for
Qdrant Store and search embeddings you already made
Weaviate Vectors you can self-host or rent from $45 Flex
Free plan
Qdrant $0 · you host Docker / Kubernetes / Edge
Weaviate $0 · forever. 1 cluster / user. 100,000 objects. 1 GB memory. 10 GB disk. 1 collection, up to 3 tenants. Embeddings 2,000 req/day. Query Agent 1,000 req/month. Best-effort SLA
Lowest paid
Qdrant Cloud Standard $85/mo
Weaviate Premium Shared / Dedicated $0.003875/mo
Next step up
Qdrant
Weaviate Embeddings (list) $0.025
Coding agent
Qdrant
Weaviate Query Agent
Runs where
Qdrant
Weaviate Local; you host it
Watch out
Qdrant Free Cloud suspends after 1 idle week
Weaviate Free is 100k objects and one collection
Last checked
Qdrant 2026-10-22 · qdrant.tech/pricing
Weaviate 2026-10-22 · weaviate.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Weaviate if
teams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (100k objects, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB disk) or self-host, then buy Flex at $45/month when they need HA, 1,000 collections, and pay-as-you-go dimensions.
Read the Weaviate page