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Direct Comparison

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. Pricing parity at 1M vectors; Qdrant wins on storage under INT8.

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 Managed
Mid Scale · 1M×768 INT8
Qdrant Cloud Managed: $9.00/mo Weaviate Cloud (WCS): $25.00/mo
Cheaper: Qdrant Cloud Managed
Large · 5M×768 INT8 10M queries
Qdrant Cloud Managed: $11.81/mo Weaviate Cloud (WCS): $62.30/mo
Cheaper: Qdrant Cloud Managed