cost-calc

Qdrant

Qdrant is an open-source vector database that stores embeddings with payload filters and serves approximate nearest-neighbour search over them.

Baseline topologies

TopologyMinimum nodesRoles
single-node-vector-store1qdrant
replicated-query-serving2qdrant
shard-aware-cluster3qdrant

What drives the cost

Stored vectors (millions)
Approximate stored vectors before replica or shard overhead.
Embedding dimensions
Dimension count of the embeddings stored in the primary collections.
Peak concurrent queries
Peak simultaneous similarity or filtered retrieval requests.

Where it runs

bare_metal, dedicated, cloud_vm

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Sources