Qdrant vs Weaviate
Both open-source and self-hostable on Hetzner. Qdrant is the sharper vector barb (filter + quant). Weaviate is the hybrid/graph story. Qdrant prices ~2.8x lower at 1M vectors ($9 vs $25 computed, INT8/768-dim benchmark); Qdrant also wins on storage under quantization.
Verified 2026-08-31
Monthly Cost Across Realistic Benchmarks
RAG Prototype · 100k×1536 fp32
Qdrant Cloud Managed: $0.00/mo Weaviate Cloud (WCS): $25.00/mo
Cheaper: Qdrant Cloud ManagedMid Scale · 1M×768 INT8
Qdrant Cloud Managed: $9.00/mo Weaviate Cloud (WCS): $25.00/mo
Cheaper: Qdrant Cloud ManagedLarge · 5M×768 INT8 10M queries
Qdrant Cloud Managed: $11.81/mo Weaviate Cloud (WCS): $62.30/mo
Cheaper: Qdrant Cloud Managed