Qdrant alternatives
6 resources that do what Qdrant does: compare pricing, platforms and what each one does best.
Quick comparison
| Resource | Pricing | From | Platforms | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 QdrantThe one you searched | Pay as you go | — | WebAPI | 🇩🇪 Germany |
 Chroma | Pay as you go | — | WebAPICLI | 🇺🇸 United States |
 Weaviate | Pay as you go | — | WebAPI | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
 Pinecone | Pay as you go | $50 per month | WebAPI | 🇺🇸 United States |
 Supabase | Freemium | $25 per month | WebAPICLI | 🇺🇸 United States |
 Zep | Freemium | — | WebAPI | 🇺🇸 United States |
 Mem0 | Freemium | $19 per month | WebAPI | 🇺🇸 United States |
Alternatives picked by the editor
Chroma
Pay as you go
Open-source AI search that starts on your laptop and scales in the cloud
- Open source (Apache 2.0) and free to self-host
- Runs locally with no server, great for prototypes and tests
- Local mode isn't meant for large production workloads
Weaviate
Pay as you go
Open-source vector database with built-in hybrid search
- Open source and self-hostable, or managed on Weaviate Cloud
- Hybrid search (vectors plus keywords) out of the box
- Running it at scale means tuning memory and replicas
Pinecone
Pay as you go · From $50
Managed vector database for semantic search and RAG
- Serverless: scales without picking server sizes or tuning indexes
- Built-in embedding and reranking models
- Not open source and can't be self-hosted
Also in Vector databases & memory
They solve something similar, though the editor didn't mark them as a direct alternative.
Supabase
Freemium · From $25
Postgres database with auth, storage and instant APIs for your app
- It's standard Postgres: export your data and move without rewriting the app
- Open source and self-hostable with Docker
- Free projects pause after a week of inactivity
Zep
Freemium
Context for AI agents built from conversations and business data
- Temporal graph separates current facts from outdated ones
- Combines conversations and structured business data in one context
- The full platform is cloud-only; the Community Edition was discontinued
Mem0
Freemium · From $19
Long-term memory for AI agents and assistants
- Open source (Apache 2.0) with a managed option
- Cuts tokens sent to the model by retrieving only what's relevant
- Self-hosting also means running the vector store and the model that extracts memories
