Vector databases · RankedZilliz Cloud
Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed vector database service built on Milvus, offered on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure across 30+ regions · zilliz.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
pgvector is first at 35%.
Qdrant is first at 34%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Pinecone is first at 45%.
Why models recommend it
“Qdrant, Milvus, Zilliz, or Redis for unified cache + vector + operational data”Muse Glimmer 30B · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“Use managed cloud instances (e.g., Zilliz Cloud, Weaviate Cloud)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“2. Zilliz: Best for large-scale managed similarity search.”Llama 4 Maverick · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Leading performance, but may be overkill for mid-market”Kimi K2 · Direct question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Zilliz Cloud, over the 32 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 11 | View → | |
| 28 | 7 | View → | |
| 28 | 2 | View → | |
| 24 | 9 | View → | |
| 23 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Zilliz Cloud's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Enterprise AI
- Price stated
- Flexible pricing options for every team on any budget.
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Free TierUnleash Your Imagination with the Power of Managed Milvus.
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR
- Hosting
- AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, us-west-2 (Oregon), GCP, 30+ regions worldwide
- Customers named
- Exa, OpenEvidence, Filevine, MiniMax, Consensus, Airtable, Read AI, Gorgias
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 26 of the 32 answers that named Zilliz Cloud and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-three of the seventy-nine domain citations in answers naming Zilliz Cloud came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 2,199 | 0 | 2026-06-26 | Vector databases, ETL | |
| Blog | 416 | 2 | 2026-07-16 | Vector databases, ETL | |
| Comparison | 405 | undated | Vector databases, Object storage | ||
| Conference or event | 208 | 0 | 2026-06-30 | Vector databases | |
| Case study | 60 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 38 | 0 | 2026-05-21 | Vector databases | |
| News or press | 35 | 2 | 2026-08-05 | Vector databases | |
| Report or ebook | 22 | 0 | 2026-05-01 | Vector databases | |
| Template or tool | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2022-06-16 |
Most recent
- 2026-08-05Vdbbench cost aware vector database benchmarking news or press
- 2026-08-01Milvus 3 0 lake native vector database news or press
- 2026-07-16Migrate self managed milvus to zilliz cloud blog
- 2026-07-02Build multimodal search 3d assets tripo zilliz cloud blog
- 2026-06-30Databricks data ai summit 2026 data layer conference or event
- 2026-06-29Pr loon lake native storage engine vector ai workloads news or press
Events in person
- December 5, 2025Milvus 2.6 Training Session at re:Invent 2025 (Session 3 of 3)Las Vegas · took part
- December 4, 2025Milvus 2.6 Training Session at re:Invent 2025 (Session 3 of 3)re:Invent, Las Vegas (full address will be emailed after registration), Las Vegas · took part
- December 3, 2025Milvus 2.6 Training Session at re:Invent 2025 (Session 2 of 3)re:Invent, Las Vegas (full address will be emailed after registration), Las Vegas · took part
- December 2, 2025Milvus 2.6 Training Session at re:Invent 2025 (Session 1 of 3)re:Invent, Las Vegas (full address will be emailed after registration), Las Vegas · took part
As the event pages on zilliz.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page zilliz.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.