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 2026-09-21
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)