Qdrant Cloud Managed vs pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted) pricing
Across 2 benchmark workloads, pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted) prices lower in 2 of 2 — by up to ~28% at parity scenarios. It uses fixed-capacity plans, so steady workloads amortize the floor. Both are compared on identical USD-normalized footprints; verify current rates via each row's provenance date in the full tool.
Monthly Cost Across Realistic Benchmarks
RAG Prototype · 100k×1536 fp32
Qdrant Cloud Managed: $0.00/mo pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted): $8.48/mo
Cheaper: Qdrant Cloud ManagedMid Scale · 1M×768 INT8
Qdrant Cloud Managed: $9.00/mo pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted): $8.48/mo
Cheaper: pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted)Large · 5M×768 INT8 10M queries
Qdrant Cloud Managed: $11.81/mo pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted): $8.48/mo
Cheaper: pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted)