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Pay for storage, queries are free

One axis of cost: the GB-months your vectors sit on disk. No per-query meter, no egress charges, no compute-time invoice. $5 in monthly usage credits to start, no card required for your first 90 days.

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Live rates from our pricing service. No registration required to estimate.

Storage

1 GB
1 GB 10 GB 100 GB 1 TB 10 TB
Your first $5 of usage each month is on the house. No card required for the first 90 days. Most prototypes finish well inside that.
At this storage, how many raw f32 vectors fit:
384D
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vectors
512D
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vectors
768D
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vectors
1536D
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vectors
Warm
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per month
Paused
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per month

Three tiers, one rate axis

Each collection picks its own tier. Match the rate to how hot the data needs to be, compartmentalize by access pattern. Change anytime, no commitments.

WARM
$1.49
per GB / month
  • SSD storage
  • Typically < 100ms
  • Shared in-memory pool keeps recent queries fast
PAUSED
$0.09
per GB / month
  • Archive storage
  • Resume in minutes
  • Pre-indexed, query-ready when you resume

$5 in monthly usage credits, free to start. No strings, no card required for your first 90 days.
Add a credit card by day 90 to continue the usage credits.

Tier comparison

Same query API, same data; the tier just changes how fast and how cheap.

Feature HOT WARM PAUSED
Price per GB / month $5.99 $1.49 $0.09
Storage medium RAM SSD HDD
Typical query latency < 10 ms < 100 ms Resume first
Queries per month Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited (after resume)
Storage limit Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Index preserved
Metadata return
Resume time Instant Instant ~5 minutes
Best for Latency-sensitive apps Most workloads Inactive collections

Frequently asked questions

How does the pricing work? +

You pay per GB of stored vectors at the tier each collection occupies. All tiers include unlimited queries at no additional cost. Your $5 monthly usage credit applies first, so most prototypes never see a bill. No card required for the first 90 days.

Is there really no query fee? +

Correct. Run as many queries as you want on any tier at no additional cost. You only pay for storage. This is possible because our infrastructure is self-hosted at fixed cost, and we pass that efficiency through to you.

Can I switch between tiers? +

Yes. Move collections between hot, warm, and paused at any time. Billing follows the new tier immediately, in either direction. Resuming a paused collection takes about five minutes.

What is the Paused tier? +

Paused is for collections you want to keep but aren't actively querying. Your vectors and the index we tuned for them are preserved on HDD at minimal cost ($0.09 per GB / month). When you resume, you skip the auto-optimization run and you're query-ready in minutes. No reindexing, no rebuild.

What about the $5 monthly credit? +

Every account gets $5 in monthly usage credits, applied first against whatever you use that month. No card is required for your first 90 days. After day 90, a credit card is required to continue receiving the credit; your data stays either way. The full policy lives in the footnote under the pricing grid above.

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Start with $5 in monthly credits. No card for the first 90 days.

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