Tag: qdrant
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Self-Hosted vs Managed Vector Search in 2026: What a RAG Team’s First Million Vectors Really Costs, $76 to $400 a Month, and Why Every Advertised Per-Vector Rate Is a Full-Capacity Rate
All five managed vector services Google names, each asked through its own pricing calculator on 16 September 2026 for the same one million 768-dimensional vectors. The answers ran $50 to $400 a month. Every advertised per-vector rate turns out to be a full-capacity rate: the cluster type Zilliz advertises at $5 per million returns $189.44,…