Qdrant Cloud
qdrant.tech · 2 records in Databases and KV, Inference · JSON
Records 2
- ★ qualifiesQdrant Cloud
Databases and KVfree tieridentity emailno cardlimit per-object-capevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- caveatQdrant Cloud Inference (free models on a free cluster)
Inferencefree tieridentity emailcard?evidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
Qdrant Cloud
Databases and KV- Free allowance
- Free tier cluster with 1 GB RAM and 4 GB disk, no high availability, one cluster
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap4 GB disk per cluster; 1 GB RAM
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | free tier cluster with 1 GB RAM and 4 GB disk, no high availability, one cluster unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Identity | email email or GitHub signup; no card on Free |
| Egress | not published on the pricing page; recorded as a gap |
| Per-object cap | 4 GB disk per cluster |
| Retention | no deletion clock and no exhaustion behaviour is published; the FAQ says only that if data growth exceeds the free tier you 'can easily upgrade'. Nothing states what happens to a cluster that reaches 1 GB of RAM |
| Interface | rest, cli a REST API and gRPC; Python, JS and Rust clients |
| Tooling | the qdrant-client libraries over gRPC or REST |
| Composes with | the largest free vector storage by disk, and the closest thing to a self-managed index without a host |
| Reliability | no high availability on the free tier, so the single node is the availability |
| Notes | 4 GB of disk at 768 dimensions and 4 bytes per component is roughly 1.4 million vectors before index overhead; What happens at 1 GB of RAM is not published: the page offers an upgrade and says nothing about a refusal, a throttle or a deletion. |
| Evidence note | documented the pricing FAQ was read; the numbers are in the page's own answers. |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | qdrant.tech/pricing/ | 'The free tier includes 1GB RAM and 4GB disk storage'; the free tier is 'limited to 1GB RAM and 4GB disk without high availability' |
Unknown values 1
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- Free allowance
- BM25 and a dense model such as all-MiniLM-L6-v2 are free to use on free-tier clusters, with no token charge; larger models (mxbai, SPLADE) run on metered tokens with a monthly free allowance of up to 5 million tokens per model on paid clusters only.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailcard unknown, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | BM25 and a dense model such as all-MiniLM-L6-v2 are free to use on free-tier clusters, with no token charge; larger models (mxbai, SPLADE) run on metered tokens with a monthly free allowance of up to 5 million tokens per model on paid clusters only. No rerank model is listed unit tokens; metered on request-count; unverified: no request or token cap for the free models appears on the pages read; the Inference tab of a cluster in the console lists the current models, which the page reader could not open |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Binding | none no limit on the free models is published; the free cluster's own 1 GB RAM and 4 GB disk bound what can be stored |
| Identity | email the log-in page offers an email address, Continue with Google or Continue with GitHub; unverified: whether the sign-up asks for a card |
| Egress | not published |
| Interface | rest |
| Tooling | the Qdrant client sends text or images in the upsert and query calls and the cluster embeds them; external providers (OpenAI, Cohere, Jina AI, OpenRouter) are accepted with the caller's own key |
| Composes with | embedding and search in one call on the same free cluster; the free tier is the cluster of 1 GB RAM and 4 GB disk |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Evidence note | documented the free-model statement, the paid-only 5M token allowance and the region note are quoted from the vendor page; the free models' limits and the sign-up card question are unverified. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | qdrant.tech/cloud-inference/ | BM25 and the dense all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model are free, including on free-tier clusters |
| 2026-11-03 | qdrant.tech/cloud-inference/ | free models carry no token charges; the 5 million token monthly allowance is for paid clusters |
| 2026-11-03 | qdrant.tech/cloud-inference/ | the free models run in the US region and can be called from any region |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.qdrant.io/ | the Qdrant Cloud log-in page offers an email, Google or GitHub sign-in |
Unknown values 3
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer