Zilliz Cloud vs pgvector vs Pinecone vs Qdrant

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Zilliz Cloud
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pgvector
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Pinecone
Competitor 3
Qdrant
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Zilliz Cloud
zilliz.com
Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed vector database service from the creators of Milvus, now described as a Vector Lakebase.
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Competitor pgvector
github.com
pgvector is an open-source extension that adds vector similarity search to Postgres.
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Competitor Pinecone
pinecone.io
Vector database for AI applications
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Competitor Qdrant
qdrant.tech
Vectors at scale
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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434.9Kvisits/mo
310.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 13.7%
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6-month growth
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-32.9%
-6.1%
Global rank web
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#85,031
#175,101
Avg. last 3 months
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506.2K
306.8K
Bounce rate lower is better
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41%
50%
Pages / visit
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4.2
1.8
Visit duration
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2m 31s
1m 13s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 77% · ● Referral 20%
● Direct 75% · ● Referral 24%
Zilliz CloudpgvectorPineconeQdrant
0162K324K486K648KPinecone · 602KPinecone · 565.4KPinecone · 627.7KPinecone · 536.6KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 602.3KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 579.9KPinecone · 503.7KPinecone · 434.9KQdrant · 315.9KQdrant · 319.2KQdrant · 363.4KQdrant · 330.7KQdrant · 354.7KQdrant · 315.9KQdrant · 300.2KQdrant · 309.7KQdrant · 310.5K100K1MPinecone · 602KPinecone · 565.4KPinecone · 627.7KPinecone · 536.6KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 602.3KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 579.9KPinecone · 503.7KPinecone · 434.9KQdrant · 315.9KQdrant · 319.2KQdrant · 363.4KQdrant · 330.7KQdrant · 354.7KQdrant · 315.9KQdrant · 300.2KQdrant · 309.7KQdrant · 310.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$197per month · free tier available
Free
$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free tier
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Plans
Free FreeStandard FreeEnterprise $197/moBusiness Critical Custom
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Starter FreeBuilder $20/moStandard $50/moEnterprise $500/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
Data
Data
DataText
Data
Output
Data
Data
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Data
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Vector databases
Developer tools
Vector indexes
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Databases
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Development
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RAG
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Database search
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PostgreSQL assistance
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Cloud data management
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Database management
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SQL
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Self hosted
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