# Weaviate pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Free). Among the 7 vector databases we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** weaviate.io
**Free tier:** Yes
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Hugging Face, AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Snowflake
**Best for:** Multi-tenant SaaS applications needing per-customer data isolation; Regulated healthcare workloads on AWS requiring HIPAA compliance; Teams wanting an open-source vector DB with managed cloud option
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | — | flat | 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk. 2,000 embedding requests/day. 1,000 Query Agent requests/mo. 1 collection, up to 3 tenants. Best-effort SLA. | weaviate.io |
| Flex | $45 | — | custom | Starts at $45/mo. Pay-as-you-go beyond minimum. Unlimited objects and collections (up to 1,000). Vector dimensions from $0.00465/1M, storage from $0.12/GiB. 7-day backup retention. 99.5% uptime SLA. No commitment required. | weaviate.io |
| Plus | $280 | — | custom | Starts at $280/mo. Prepaid contract with predictable spend. Vector dimensions from $0.003875/1M, storage from $0.10/GiB. 30-day backup retention. 99.9% uptime SLA. SSO/SAML support. Query Agent $30/org/mo (4,000 requests included). | weaviate.io |
| Premium | $400 | — | custom | Starts at $400/mo. Prepaid contract. Shared or dedicated deployment. Dedicated: vector dimensions from $0.002718/1M, storage from $0.1505/GiB. 45-day backup retention. 99.95% uptime SLA. Phone and Slack support. HIPAA available on Enterprise Cloud (AWS). | weaviate.io |

**Key features:** Native multi-tenancy with per-tenant data isolation; Built-in vectorizer and reranker modules (no external embedding pipeline required); Query Agent for natural language querying of collections; Engram managed memory/context service for agentic workflows; Open-source core with self-hosted or fully managed cloud options.

**Plan limits:** Free: 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk, 1 collection, up to 3 tenants, 2,000 embedding requests/day; Free: best-effort SLA, no HIPAA; HIPAA available only on Enterprise Cloud (AWS) — Premium tier and above.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: https://weaviate.io/pricing accessed 2026-06-14. Four tiers confirmed via two independent fetches. HIPAA confirmed: 'Available on Enterprise Cloud (AWS) for regulated healthcare workloads.' Embedding model pricing (Snowflake Arctic-Embed-M-V1.5: $0.025/1M tokens, etc.) also confirmed.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/vector-databases/weaviate/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Weaviate's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/vector-databases/weaviate/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl