Pinecone Serverless vs Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus) pricing
Pinecone Serverless and Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus) split these benchmark scenarios 1–1 on price — the winner depends on which workload profile matches yours.
Verified 2026-08-31
Monthly Cost Across Realistic Benchmarks
RAG Prototype · 100k×1536 fp32
Pinecone Serverless: $2.17/mo Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus): $0.00/mo
Cheaper: Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus)Mid Scale · 1M×768 INT8
Pinecone Serverless: $9.00/mo Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus): $20.00/mo
Cheaper: Pinecone ServerlessLarge · 5M×768 INT8 10M queries
Pinecone Serverless: $85.43/mo Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus): $35.81/mo
Cheaper: Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus)