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qdrant.tech · Vector databases
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Open-source vector database with a free-forever cloud tier and four selectable similarity metrics.

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Entry paid planSmallest paid Managed Cloud cluster (1 node, 0.5 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 8 GiB disk) on AWS us-east-1: $0.03566/hour, about $26.10/month, per Qdrant's own Cloud pricing calculator. Calculator estimate for AWS us-east-1; VAT excluded and expressly not a binding offer.
GitHub stars34,504qdrant/qdrant
RegionsStandard and Premium tiers run on AWS, Azure and GCP.
Free tierYes

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 22 criteria comparedSources last checked

Qdrant pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
Smallest paid Managed Cloud cluster (1 node, 0.5 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 8 GiB disk) on AWS us-east-1: $0.03566/hour, about $26.10/month, per… source ↗
Pricing model
Usage-based on the Standard tier: billed for compute (vCPU), memory (GB) and storage (GB) consumed by clusters, backup storage, and… source ↗
What the free plan includes
A single-node cluster with 1 GB RAM and 4 GB disk, free forever, without high availability source ↗
When the free offer ends
Never — the free cluster is free forever source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Qdrant pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Teams that want a choice of similarity metric rather than one fixed default, or that want the option to self-host the same open-source engine the managed cloud runs.

Consider something else if…

A published, calculator-free entry price matters — Qdrant Cloud's Standard tier pricing is usage-based with no static per-month figure quoted, unlike some competitors' flat entry plans.

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Qdrant pricing

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Free tierYes
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Kind of free offerAlways free
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  • Qdrant Pricing ↗

    “Free Tier Free forever For testing, and prototypes Single Node Cluster 0.5 vCPU / 1GB RAM/ 4 GB Disk. Free Cloud Inference With Selected Models Start Free”

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What the free plan includesA single-node cluster with 1 GB RAM and 4 GB disk, free forever, without high availability.
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  • Qdrant Pricing ↗

    “The free tier includes 1GB RAM and 4GB disk storage, upgrading will get you a dedicated cluster. [...] The free tier is ideal for testing, and prototypes being limited to 1GB RAM and 4GB disk without high availability.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

When the free offer endsNever — the free cluster is free forever.
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Entry paid planSmallest paid Managed Cloud cluster (1 node, 0.5 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 8 GiB disk) on AWS us-east-1: $0.03566/hour, about $26.10/month, per Qdrant's own Cloud pricing calculator. Calculator estimate for AWS us-east-1; VAT excluded and expressly not a binding offer.
Sources (1) →
  • Qdrant Cloud · Calculator ↗

    “RAM: 2 GiB vCPUs: 0.5 vCPU Disk Space: 8 GiB Nodes: 1 Node [...] HOURLY: 0.03566 × 1 node = $0.03566/hour MONTHLY: 0.03566 × 24 hours × 30.5 days × 1 node = $26.10/month*”

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Pricing modelUsage-based on the Standard tier: billed for compute (vCPU), memory (GB) and storage (GB) consumed by clusters, backup storage, and inference tokens for paid models.
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  • Qdrant Cloud Pricing ↗

    “Billing is calculated based on actual resource usage during the billing period. You're charged for compute (vCPU), memory (GB), storage (GB) consumed by your clusters, storage (GB) consumed by backups, and used inference tokens of paid models.”

    Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing · Report a correction

Infrastructure

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RegionsStandard and Premium tiers run on AWS, Azure and GCP.
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  • Qdrant Pricing ↗

    “Cloud Providers Depends on chosen infrastructure AWS, Azure, GCP AWS, Azure, GCP AWS, Azure, GCP Uptime SLA 99.5 Single AZ: 99.9, Multi AZ: 99.95”

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Uptime SLA99.5% on the paid cloud tier; 99.9% on Premium.
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  • Qdrant Pricing ↗

    “free tokens for paid inference models 99.5% uptime SLA [...] SSO private VPC links 99.9% uptime SLA extra support talk to our engineers”

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Auth

1 criteria
Audit logsAudit logging, available on paid clusters, captures operations performed through the Qdrant API, including user and API key attribution, timestamp, target collection, and result of the action.
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Vector

4 criteria
Max vector dimensionsUp to 65,535 dimensions for dense vectors
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Similarity metrics supportedDot product, Cosine similarity (implemented as dot-product over automatically normalized vectors), Euclidean distance and Manhattan distance.
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  • Collections — Qdrant Docs ↗

    “Qdrant supports these most popular types of metrics: Dot product: Dot - [wiki] Cosine similarity: Cosine - [wiki] Euclidean distance: Euclid - [wiki] Manhattan distance: Manhattan - [wiki] For search efficiency, Cosine similarity is implemented as dot-product over normalized vectors.”

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Hybrid search (vector + keyword)Native hybrid queries combine dense semantic and sparse lexical (BM25) vectors in a single query
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Metadata filteringSupported: conditions can be set on the payload and on the point id, combined with AND, OR and NOT clauses that nest arbitrarily.
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  • Filtering — Qdrant Docs ↗

    “With Qdrant, you can set conditions when searching or retrieving points. For example, you can impose conditions on both the payload and the id of the point. [...] Qdrant allows you to combine conditions in clauses. Clauses are different logical operations, such as OR, AND, and NOT. Clauses can be recursively nested into each other so that you can reproduce an arbitrary boolean expression.”

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Support

1 criteria
Response time commitmentPublished as best effort, 10x5 and 24x7. The comparison table prints three response values against four support levels, so which tier gets which cannot be read off this page.
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Compliance

8 criteria
SOC 2SOC 2 Type 2 certified; compliance reports available on request through the Qdrant Trust Center.
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HIPAAHIPAA certified; a Business Associate Agreement is available for Qdrant Managed Cloud.
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GDPR / data residencyDPA offered for GDPR; cluster data is stored only in the cluster's deployment region.
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Encryption at restAll storage volumes in Qdrant Managed Cloud are encrypted at rest; data in transit is protected with TLS.
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Customer-managed keysPremium tier customers can bring their own encryption keys for storage volumes.
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Role-based access controlBuilt-in RBAC in the Qdrant Cloud Management Console, with permissions manageable at collection level.
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Private networking / VPCPrivate link connectivity from a Managed Cloud cluster to your VPC, available to Premium tier customers only.
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Dedicated infrastructurePaid Managed Cloud clusters run on their own dedicated resources, isolated in hardened, unprivileged containers.
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Qdrant pricing questions

How much does Qdrant cost?

Smallest paid Managed Cloud cluster (1 node, 0.5 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 8 GiB disk) on AWS us-east-1: $0.03566/hour, about $26.10/month, per Qdrant's own Cloud pricing calculator. Calculator estimate for AWS us-east-1; VAT excluded and expressly not a binding offer.

Qdrant Cloud · Calculator · read

How does Qdrant charge?

Usage-based on the Standard tier: billed for compute (vCPU), memory (GB) and storage (GB) consumed by clusters, backup storage, and inference tokens for paid models.

Qdrant Cloud Pricing · read

Does Qdrant have a free tier?

Yes. A single-node cluster with 1 GB RAM and 4 GB disk, free forever, without high availability.

Qdrant Pricing · read

Does the Qdrant free offer expire?

Never — the free cluster is free forever.

Qdrant Pricing · read

What uptime does Qdrant guarantee?

99.5% on the paid cloud tier; 99.9% on Premium.

Qdrant Pricing · read

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