Buying Guide · 500,000 Vectors

Self-Host Qdrant/pgvector on $17.02 Hetzner VPS

🏆 Best overall: Qdrant Cloud Managed· runner-up: pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted)

Verified 2026-08-31

Open-source Qdrant/Weaviate/pgvector on Hetzner CPX/Cloud VPS is 5–10× cheaper than managed RU. Show the math for 500k–5M vectors.

Cheapest Vector Databases for this Scale

#1 Qdrant Cloud Managed $9.03/mo Visit ↗

#2 pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted) $9.15/mo Visit ↗

#3 Supabase Vector (pgvector) $25.00/mo Visit ↗