Free
$0/mo
- ✓100,000 objects
- ✓1 GB memory
- ✓10 GB disk
- ✓1 collection, up to 3 tenants
- ✓Embeddings (2,000 req/day)
- ✓Query Agent (1,000 req/mo)
+1 more system variables
Weaviate Cost & Pricing Scale Simulator (2026)
Billing Engine Architecture:hybrid
📋 Billing Architecture Pillars
Framework & Entry
Free Tier Available
Uses a hybrid model structure.Offers developer access with no initial monthly payment requirements.
Low Price Bound
Free Entry
The initial commercial tier commit level starts at $no cost. Annual contracts may reduce equivalent monthly allocations.
Volume Restrictions
Soft Limits Enforced
API volume constraints are evaluated as 1,000 req/mo. Egress bandwidth, compute hours, and storage allocations can trigger non-linear scaling costs.
Public Tiers Breakdown
Flex
$45/mo
- ✓Pay-as-you-go, monthly, no commitment
- ✓Shared cloud cluster with full core DB toolkit + replication
- ✓Baseline security with RBAC
- ✓Highly available clusters — 99.5% uptime
- ✓Query Agent free tier + usage-based; Embeddings usage-based
- ✓Email support, next-business-day Severity 1 response
Premium
$400/mo
- ✓Prepaid contract with predictable spend
- ✓Choice of shared or dedicated deployment
- ✓Trusted reliability — up to 99.95% uptime
- ✓Global coverage on AWS, GCP & Azure
- ✓Query Agent free tier + usage-based; Embeddings usage-based
- ✓Enterprise support: as low as 1-hour Sev 1, Technical Account Team