The short answer
Weaviate Cloud is billed usage-based (dimensions + storage). It has a free tier: 14-day sandbox only (auto-expires), no permanent free. The paid plans we list start at from $45/mo (Flex).
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Free / Sandbox | $0 | Always-free tier plus a 14-day Sandbox trial (no credit card); best-effort availability, auto-expires. |
| Flex | from $45/mo | Pay-as-you-go on shared GCP; 99.5% uptime SLA; metered from $0.00465/1M vector dimensions, $0.12/GiB storage, $0.0264/GiB backup. Includes RBAC, Embeddings, Agents, automated upgrades. |
| Premium (Shared) | from $400/mo | Prepaid contract; 99.95% uptime SLA; lower per-unit metering (from $0.003875/1M vector dimensions); enhanced security and stronger support. |
| Premium Dedicated | from $400/mo | Dedicated infrastructure, 99.95% SLA, business-critical support, lowest per-unit vector pricing (from $0.002718/1M dimensions). |
| Enterprise / BYOC | Custom | Bring-Your-Own-Cloud and Enterprise Cloud on AWS; HIPAA-eligible for regulated healthcare workloads. |
How Weaviate Cloud bills you
The pricing model is usage-based (dimensions + storage). Feature-rich vector DB with hybrid search and agentic query tooling, but only a 14-day free sandbox. Best suited to: hybrid search + ai-native query agents.
What to watch for on the bill
- Managed cost scales steeply, tens of millions of high-dimensional vectors can run into thousands of dollars per month
- Pricing model is hard to estimate; metering jargon (vector dimensions, AIUs) makes budgeting difficult, a frequent Reddit/G2 complaint
- October 2025 repricing raised the paid entry point (old $25 Serverless to $45 Flex) and renamed tiers, causing churn in published guidance
- Lower-tier Flex runs on shared GCP infrastructure with only a 99.5% SLA
The pricing page we read
Source: https://weaviate.io/pricing. Prices change, so confirm there before you commit.
Compare Weaviate Cloud with alternatives
Other vector database apis: Pinecone, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, Zilliz Cloud (Milvus), Supabase Vector (pgvector), Qdrant Cloud.
Looking at quality rather than price? See the Weaviate Cloud score on APIbenchmarks. Full entry: Weaviate Cloud pricing.