Search API · pricing · Updated November 2026
Weaviate pricing (2026)
Weaviate's paid plans start at $45/mo (Flex) as checked on 2026-11-01, read from Weaviate's own pricing page; 3 plans. Best for Teams building AI-native applications with multi-tenancy requirements. Every figure below links to its source and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Entry price: $45/mo (Flex)
- Free tier: Yes
- Compliance: HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
- Best for: Teams building AI-native applications with multi-tenancy requirements; Organizations wanting open-source vector DB with managed cloud option; RAG applications needing semantic + keyword hybrid search; Developers needing 20+ ML model integrations out of the box
As of · every figure below links to its source
Weaviate plans & pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | — | Flat monthly | Always free, no credit card. 1 cluster per user, 100K objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk, 1 collection with up to 3 tenants. 2K embedding requests/day, 1K Query Agent requests/mo. Basic support. | weaviate.io |
| Flex | $45 | — | Custom / quote | Starts at $45/mo (pay-as-you-go, no commitment). Shared cloud cluster, full core database, replication, baseline RBAC, 99.5% SLA. Usage rates: vector dimensions $0.00465/1M; storage from $0.12/GiB/mo; backup from $0.03036/GiB/mo. Email support, next-business-day Severity 1 response. | weaviate.io |
| Premium STALE · 2026-09-03 | $400 | — | Custom / quote | Starts at $400/mo; prepaid annual contract. Shared or dedicated deployment, up to 99.95% uptime, global coverage across ~40 AWS/GCP/Azure regions. Dedicated Technical Account Team, as low as 1-hour Severity 1 response. The monthly price recorded here is the annualized monthly rate. | weaviate.io |
Last verified 2026-11-01. STALE marks a plan we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days. 1 of 3 plans above is marked. Official pricing page https://www.weaviate.io/pricing fetched 2026-06-14. HIPAA confirmed on security page https://www.weaviate.io/security fetched 2026-06-14: 'compliant with SOC 2, HIPAA, data privacy, and explainability.' BAA not explicitly stated (trust portal referenced but not accessed). This note predates a correction to the plans above, from 2026-09-27; the table holds the corrected figures.See the corrections.
Plans no longer listed
Plans we recorded earlier that the page they were read from no longer lists. None of these is a current price, and a plan missing from a pricing page may still be sold to existing customers or through sales.
| Plan | Last recorded | Named successor | Source |
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| PlusNot listed on www.weaviate.io as of 2026-09-27; last seen 2026-06-14. The page lists: "Compare Database plans Plan Free Flex Premium Shared Dedicated" | was $280/mo — Not listed on weaviate.io as of 2026-09-27; last seen 2026-06-14 | — | weaviate.io |
Price changes
Price on record
$45/moFirst on record 2026-06-27
A new dated entry is stamped here each time the price moves — the record builds itself.
Tracked since June 2026. No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.
Corrections to this record
Changes we made to our own record of Weaviate, newest first: a figure read again on the vendor's page, a plan it no longer lists, a note. None of them is a price change by Weaviate. Every correction on the site is in the corrections log.
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Free. Re-read 2026-11-01: the plan stays free. The note said "Community Slack support"; the page now reads "Basic Support".
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Flex. Re-read 2026-11-01: the price stands at $45. The note said storage $0.1505/GiB/mo and backup $0.0264/GiB/mo; the page now reads "from $0.12 / GiB" for storage and "from $0.03036/ GiB" for backup.
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Plus (not listed on weaviate.io as of 2026-09-27; last seen 2026-06-14). Not listed on www.weaviate.io as of 2026-09-27; last seen 2026-06-14. The page lists: "Compare Database plans Plan Free Flex Premium Shared Dedicated"
Capabilities
Integrations: OpenAI, Cohere, Hugging Face, AWS, Azure, GCP, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, Streamlit, Google Cloud.
Key features: Open-source AI-native vector database; Hybrid search: BM25 keyword + vector with re-ranking; Native multi-tenancy with strict tenant isolation; 20+ built-in vectorizer module integrations; RAG out of the box; Advanced metadata filtering in milliseconds; Vector index compression for large-scale datasets; Flexible deployment: SaaS, self-hosted, Kubernetes VPC.
Plan limits: Free: 1 cluster, 100K objects, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB disk, 1 collection, 3 tenants max; Free: 2K embedding requests/day, 1K Query Agent requests/mo; Free: community support only, no SLA; Flex: 99.5% SLA; Premium: 99.9% (shared) or 99.95% (dedicated) SLA; SSO/SAML only on the Premium tier; Signed HIPAA BAA available (Weaviate Cloud on AWS); contact Weaviate to execute before storing PHI.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Weaviate cost?
Weaviate's paid plans start at $45/mo (Flex), and it lists a $0 plan (Free); it has 3 published plans. Verified 2026-11-01.
What are cheaper alternatives to Weaviate?
Cheaper search API than Weaviate (entry $45/mo) include Pinecone at $20/mo, Meilisearch Cloud at $23/mo, Elastic Cloud at $24/mo. Verified 2026-11-01.
Does Weaviate support HIPAA?
Yes — Weaviate states HIPAA support on its public pages. Its public pages also state SOC 2 and GDPR compliance.
Does Weaviate have a free plan?
Yes — Weaviate publishes a free tier.
Weaviate vs alternatives
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