Weaviate pricing 2026: plans and costs
How AI answers describe Weaviate pricing
As of November 2026, Qdrant, Weaviate, and Pinecone are among the vector databases with publicly accessible pricing.
Compared to: Pinecone · Qdrant · PostgreSQL
- Weaviate Cloud — 14-day free sandbox trial.
Quick pricing summary
- Free: $0 month
- Flex: $45 month minimum, pay-as-you-go
- Premium Shared: Custom (prepaid contract (from $400/month minimum))
- Premium Dedicated: Custom (prepaid contract)
- Worth noting: Billed by vector dimensions, storage and backup; rates vary by index type, compression, cloud and region. Flex minimum $45/month; Premium minimum from $400/month. Data transfer free for a promotional period. New rates apply to usage from 1 September 2026.
Plans
Free
$0 month
- 1 cluster per 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/mo)
- Basic Support
Flex
$45 month minimum, pay-as-you-go
- Pay-as-you-go, monthly, no commitment
- Shared cloud cluster with full core DB toolkit + replication
- Baseline security with RBAC
- 99.5% uptime
- Query Agent free tier + usage-based; Embeddings usage-based
- Standard support - next-business-day Sev 1
Premium Shared
Custom prepaid contract (from $400/month minimum)
- Prepaid contract with predictable spend
- Shared deployment
- 99.9% uptime
- SSO / SAML
- Phone and Slack support
- 4-hour Sev 1 response
Premium Dedicated
Custom prepaid contract
- Prepaid contract with predictable spend
- Dedicated deployment
- 99.95% uptime
- AWS, GCP & Azure, all regions
- HIPAA compliant, PrivateLink, customer-managed encryption keys
- 1-hour Sev 1 response + Technical Account Team add-on
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Free | Flex | Premium Shared | Premium Dedicated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deployment type | Shared | Shared | Shared | Dedicated |
| Object limit | 100,000 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Collection limit | 1 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Hybrid search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Backup retention | — | 7 days | 30 days | 45 days |
| Flexible index types | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HA / replication | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RBAC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bring your own IdP | — | — | — | Coming soon |
| HIPAA compliant | — | — | — | ✓ |
| PrivateLink (AWS) | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Encrypted volumes (customer keys) | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Metrics endpoint | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Query Agent rate limits | 1,000 req/mo | 30,000 req/mo | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Embeddings | 2,000 req/day | Usage-based | Usage-based | Coming soon |
| Phone support | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Slack support | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Availability SLA | Best effort | 99.5% | 99.9% | 99.95% |
| Severity 1 response time | — | 1 business day | 4-hours | 1-hour |
| Cloud Service Provider | AWS | GCP, AWS | GCP, AWS | GCP, AWS, Azure |
| Regions | Limited (2) | Limited (7) | Limited (7) | All (~40) |
| Vector dimensions | Free | from $0.00465 / 1M | from $0.003875 / 1M | from $0.002718 / 1M |
| Storage | Free | from $0.12 / GiB | from $0.10 / GiB | from $0.33 / GiB |
| Backup | Free | from $0.03036 / GiB | from $0.021 / GiB | from $0.014 / GiB |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Weaviate Embeddings - Snowflake Arctic-Embed-M-v1.5 | $0.025 / 1M tokens | All plans |
| Weaviate Embeddings - Snowflake Arctic-Embed-M-v2.0 | $0.040 / 1M tokens | All plans |
| Weaviate Embeddings - ModernVBERT ColModernVBERT | $0.065 / 1M tokens | All plans |
| Query Agent monthly plan | $30 / organization / month (4,000 requests included, additional usage-based) | All plans |
| Technical Account Team | Contact sales | Premium Shared, Premium Dedicated |
Weaviate pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weaviate | Free; paid from $45 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | — | |
| Pinecone | Free; paid from $20 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Production AI applications, from solo developers and small teams to mission-critical enterprise deployments | Compare → |
| Qdrant | Contact sales | Yes | Usage-based | Developers and teams building RAG, semantic search and recommendation systems that need hybrid search and metadata filtering, either self-hosted or managed | Compare → |
| PostgreSQL | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
| Chroma | Free; paid from $250 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Developers building retrieval-augmented generation prototypes, who get a fast start locally, and teams that later need a managed or self-hosted search system. | Compare → |
List prices as published on weaviate.io/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.