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Hybrid BM25 + Vector: Best Ranker

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

Verified 2026-09-21

Enterprise search wants hybrid scoring (keyword BM25 blended with vector cosine), not pure ANN. Weaviate hybrid and Qdrant hybrid filters lead.

Cheapest Vector Databases for this Scale

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

#2 Qdrant Cloud Managed $9.41/mo Visit ↗

#3 Turbopuffer $16.69/mo Visit ↗

#4 Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector) $19.08/mo Visit ↗

#5 Pinecone Serverless $20.07/mo Visit ↗

#6 Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus) $21.30/mo Visit ↗

#7 Supabase Vector (pgvector) $25.28/mo Visit ↗

#8 Weaviate Cloud (WCS) $27.09/mo Visit ↗