Managed services - verified
Qdrant Cloud
Qdrant Cloud is listed under managed services (deployment type: managed provisioned). First listed price, in its own unit: Free, plan price (Free Tier). Standard Tier unit rates appear only in a pricing calculator. Stated: hybrid and sparse search and built-in embedding. Read from the vendor's own pages on October 18, 2026.
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Status
- Availability label
- Not stated
No GA or preview label for Qdrant Cloud is stated on the pricing or docs pages checked.
How Qdrant Cloud charges
Every price Qdrant Cloud states, in its own unit, with the quote and where it comes from. Nothing is converted.
| Price | Unit, as stated | Quote and source | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plan price or monthly minimum | |||
| Free | plan price (Free Tier) | “Free Tier Free forever For testing, and prototypes” | - |
| Minimum spend required | Premium Tier | “Premium Tier Minimum spend required” | - |
| Product | Rate | Why | Billing model, quoted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qdrant Cloud | Not statedStandard Tier unit rates | Standard Tier unit prices are only available through the Qdrant pricing calculator, not as text on the pricing page. | Usage-based “Standard Tier Usage-based pricing For production workloads and scaling applications” |
Plan labels in brackets come from the pricing table's column headings, which the quoted cell text does not always repeat.
Free tier and limits
- Free tier
Free single-node cluster: 0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 4 GB disk
“Single Node Cluster - 0.5 vCPU / 1GB RAM/ 4 GB Disk.”
qdrant.tech - Limits
- Not stated
No per-collection vector count limit is stated on the pages checked.
Search and indexing
- Max dimensions
- Not stated
Not stated on the collections, indexing or pricing pages checked.
- Distance metrics
Dot, Cosine, Euclid, Manhattan
“Dot product: Dot - [wiki] - Cosine similarity: Cosine - [wiki] - Euclidean distance: Euclid - [wiki] - Manhattan distance: Manhattan”
qdrant.tech - Index types
HNSW (dense), sparse vector index, payload and full-text indexes
“Qdrant currently only uses HNSW as a dense vector index.”
qdrant.tech - Hybrid and sparse search
Yes: dense plus sparse vectors fused with RRF or DBSF
“Qdrant has a few ways of fusing the results from different queries: rrf and dbsf”
qdrant.tech “it is often useful to combine dense and sparse vectors to get the best of both worlds”
qdrant.tech - Metadata filtering
Yes (payload filtering with payload indexes)
“Payload index in Qdrant is similar to the index in conventional document-oriented databases.”
qdrant.tech - Multi-tenancy
Payload-based partitioning or user-defined sharding within one collection
“Partition by payload filters points by a payload field that identifies the tenant.”
qdrant.tech “User-defined sharding gives each tenant its own dedicated shard.”
qdrant.tech
Built-in embedding and reranking
- Built-in embedding
Yes
“Qdrant Managed Cloud allows you to use inference directly in the cloud, without the need to set up and maintain your own inference infrastructure.”
qdrant.tech - Built-in reranking
- Not stated
Not stated on the inference, hybrid query or pricing pages checked.
Deployment, license and SDKs
- Regions and clouds
AWS, Azure, GCP
“AWS, Azure, GCP”
qdrant.tech - BYOC and self-host
Hybrid Cloud (managed clusters on your own infrastructure) and Private Cloud
“Hybrid Cloud Runs on Run managed Qdrant clusters on your own infrastructure using your compute, network and storage.”
qdrant.tech “Private Cloud Runs on Dedicated, isolated deployment for strict security or compliance needs.”
qdrant.tech - License
Apache-2.0
“Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004”
raw.githubusercontent.com - SDKs
Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, Go, .NET, Java
“Qdrant supports these "official" clients.”
qdrant.tech “Python pip install qdrant-client[fastembed]”
qdrant.tech “JavaScript / Typescript npm install @qdrant/js-client-rest”
qdrant.tech “Rust cargo add qdrant-client”
qdrant.tech “Go go get github.com/qdrant/go-client”
qdrant.tech “.NET dotnet add package Qdrant.Client”
qdrant.tech “Java Available on Maven Central”
qdrant.tech
Vendor-stated claims
Performance, scale and SLA figures as Qdrant Cloud states them. Not measured.
99.5% uptime SLA on Standard Tiervendor-statedinferred
Our reading: The quote does not name the tier; Standard comes from the pricing card it sits in.
“99.5% Uptime SLA”
99.9% uptime SLA on Premium Tiervendor-statedinferred
Our reading: The quote does not name the tier; Premium comes from the pricing card it sits in.
“99.9% Uptime SLA”
Research notes
Standard Tier unit prices are only available through the Qdrant pricing calculator, not as text on the pricing page. Cloud inference is enabled by default for clusters created after July 7, 2025 per the inference docs.
FAQ
How much does Qdrant Cloud cost?
In Qdrant Cloud's own units: Free (plan price (Free Tier)); Minimum spend required (Premium Tier). Standard Tier unit rates: not stated. Standard Tier unit prices are only available through the Qdrant pricing calculator, not as text on the pricing page. As of October 18, 2026; prices are not converted.
What is the maximum vector dimension in Qdrant Cloud?
Not stated. Not stated on the collections, indexing or pricing pages checked.
Does Qdrant Cloud support hybrid search?
Yes: dense plus sparse vectors fused with RRF or DBSF, per the vendor: "Qdrant has a few ways of fusing the results from different queries: rrf and dbsf"
Does Qdrant Cloud have built-in embedding or reranking?
Embedding: Yes. Reranking: not stated. Not stated on the inference, hybrid query or pricing pages checked.
Sources
- Source: qdrant.tech/documentation
- Source: qdrant.tech/pricing
- Source: qdrant.tech/documentation/manage-data/collections
- Source: qdrant.tech/documentation/manage-data/indexing
- Source: qdrant.tech/documentation/search/hybrid-queries
- Source: qdrant.tech/documentation/manage-data/multitenancy
- Source: qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud/inference
- Source: raw.githubusercontent.com/qdrant/qdrant/master/LICENSE
- Source: qdrant.tech/documentation/interfaces
Last verified from each vendor's own docs, pricing pages, READMEs and license files; every quote was string-matched against the page that day. This is a dated snapshot, not a benchmark: prices are shown in each product's own unit and change without notice, so check the linked source before you commit.
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