Buying Guide · 500,000 Vectors

Self-Host Qdrant/pgvector on €14.60 Hetzner VPS

🏆 Best overall: pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted)

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

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