Milvus by LF AI & Data Foundation (created by Zilliz)

Open-source vector database for similarity search over billions of embeddings, self-hosted or embedded (Milvus Lite).

Vector databases Official MCP server Open source

Price

Free (open source)

you pay only for the compute it runs on

Free tier

Open source

SDK downloads

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npm @zilliz/milvus2-sdk-node · PyPI pymilvus

Status

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no public status page

Pricing

Free tier	—
Cheapest paid plan	—
Usage price	—
Good to know	Free self-hosted open source; the managed version is sold as Zilliz Cloud.

Open source: free to run on your own hardware; you pay only for the compute. Checked

MCP server	Official: `https://github.com/zilliztech/mcp-server-milvus`
npm	`npm install @zilliz/milvus2-sdk-node`
PyPI	`pip install pymilvus`

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