Weaviate
Listed at https://weaviate.io
Overall Rank #24 ⭐ Consider
⚠️ Servers in AWS/GCP regions, ~200-400ms latency from China | 🌍 International
💰 Token Pricing
| Type | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Input | Free 永久层:100,000 对象 + 1 集合 + 7 天备份;Flex 月付 $45 起 + 从 $0.00465/1M 维度 + $0.12/GiB 存储;Premium 预付从 $400/月 | per million tokens |
| Output | Dedicated 合同制 from $400/月 起;Vector dimension、Storage、Backup 三维度独立计费;Embeddings 按 token 用量计费 | per million tokens |
💡 Free Credits: Free forever: 100,000 objects, 1 collection, 7-day backup; 2,000 Embedding requests/day; Query Agent 1,000 req/mo
🤖 Supported Models (8)
Snowflake Arctic-embed-m-v1.5Snowflake Arctic-embed-m-v2.0ModernVBERT ColModernVBERTOpenAI text-embedding-3-small/large (via API)Cohere embed-english-v3.0 / embed-multilingual-v3.0Hugging Face transformers2vec (any public model)VoyageAI voyage-3 / voyage-large-2Jina AI jina-embeddings-v3
✨ Pros
- ✓Open-source vector DB (Weaviate OSS Apache 2.0) + Weaviate Cloud fully managed
- ✓8 built-in embedding services (incl. Snowflake Arctic, ModernVBERT)
- ✓Weaviate Query Agent — natural language to DB ops (from $30/mo)
- ✓HIPAA + SOC 2 Type II (Dedicated tier)
- ✓Hybrid search, vector compression, RBAC, multi-tenancy
⚠️ Cons
- ×High latency from mainland China
- ×Premium/Dedicated more expensive than Pinecone Serverless entry tier
- ×Steeper learning curve than pure Serverless alternatives
🎯 Best For
RAG apps needing hybrid search, GraphRAG, HIPAA compliance; enterprise multi-tenant deployment; hybrid OSS self-host + cloud managed