Zilliz

Description

Zilliz is the company behind Milvus, the world's most popular open-source vector database, and Zilliz Cloud, a fully managed Vector Lakebase for enterprise AI. It unifies real-time vector search, lake-scale discovery, and AI data operations, helping organizations make sense of unstructured data and build AI and RAG applications at any scale. It is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure regions worldwide.

Zilliz Cloud offers a range of plans from a free tier for learning and personal projects (5 GB storage, 2.5M vCUs per month, up to 5 collections) through Standard, Enterprise, and Business Critical tiers. Higher tiers add 99.95% uptime SLA, audit logs, SSO (SAML 2.0), granular RBAC, multi-replica and elastic scaling, private endpoints and VPC peering, CMEK encryption, HIPAA eligibility, and disaster recovery. On-Demand Compute runs lake-scale search and indexing jobs on zero-copy external data, and BYOC lets you deploy on your own cloud.

Dedicated clusters provide isolated, reserved environments with predictable performance and cluster types optimized for performance, capacity, or tiered storage, priced per million vectors per month. Zilliz also maintains open-source tools including VectorDBBench, GPTCache, Attu, and Feder.

Founded in 2017 with 10,000+ enterprise users, Zilliz starts free, with usage-based pricing from around $0.30 per GB per month.

Zilliz's Core Features

• Fully managed vector database powered by Milvus

• Billion-scale real-time vector search

• Hybrid and lake-scale search and discovery

• Vector storage for RAG and AI applications

• Available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure

• Enterprise security: SSO, RBAC, audit logs, CMEK

• On-demand compute and BYOC deployment

• Dedicated clusters optimized for performance or capacity

How to use Zilliz?

1. 1

   Start free: Create a Zilliz Cloud account and use the free tier.

2. 2

   Create a cluster: Choose a plan and deployment on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

3. 3

   Load vectors: Ingest your embeddings using the core Milvus-compatible APIs.

4. 4

   Query: Run vector, hybrid, or lake-scale search for your AI or RAG app.

5. 5

   Scale up: Move to Enterprise or dedicated clusters for production workloads.

Zilliz's Use Cases

• RAG applications
• Semantic search
• Recommendation systems
• Enterprise AI at scale
• Lake-scale discovery

FAQ from Zilliz

• What is Zilliz?

  Zilliz is the company behind Milvus, the open-source vector database, and Zilliz Cloud, a fully managed vector database for building AI and RAG applications.

• Which cloud providers does Zilliz Cloud support?

  Zilliz Cloud is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure regions worldwide.

• Is there a free plan?

  Yes. The free plan is a starting point for learning and personal projects, with 5 GB storage, 2.5M vCUs per month, and up to 5 collections.

• What enterprise features are available?

  Enterprise and Business Critical tiers add a 99.95% uptime SLA, audit logs, SSO (SAML 2.0), granular RBAC, multi-replica and elastic scaling, private endpoints, CMEK encryption, HIPAA eligibility, and disaster recovery.

• Can I run Zilliz on my own cloud?

  Yes. BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) lets you deploy on your infrastructure of choice with the same features as SaaS dedicated clusters, for organizations that need custom infrastructure and compliance.

• How is Zilliz Cloud priced?

  Pricing is built to scale with usage, starting free, with usage-based pricing from around $0.30 per GB per month and dedicated clusters priced per million vectors per month.