Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus) 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 ~76% 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
Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus): $0.00/mo pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted): $8.48/mo
Cheaper: Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus)Mid Scale · 1M×768 INT8
Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus): $20.00/mo pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted): $8.48/mo
Cheaper: pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted)Large · 5M×768 INT8 10M queries
Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus): $35.81/mo pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted): $8.48/mo
Cheaper: pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Self-Hosted)