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Qdrant
An open-source vector search engine written in Rust.
KINDA
why this verdict
Keep it for the workflow, not the AI
pgvector and Pinecone cover the headline feature free, and the workflow around it is why you would still open this.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- General databases added good-enough vector search. OpenAI, January 1, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers headline only editorial call
- The headline feature, but not the workflow, data or integrations around it.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 2 of 2 listed replacements have a usable free tier: pgvector and Pinecone.
- What the call is worth nothing to cancel
- No paid entry tier tracked, so there is no subscription to cancel.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked recorded: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- January 1, 2025
- List price
- free
- Per year
- —
The backstory
Qdrant is fast, self-hostable and genuinely good at filtered vector search at scale. Its problem is the same as the whole category's: most teams discover their corpus fits in Postgres, and the ones who need more often need a full search engine rather than vectors alone.
Escape hatches
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pgvector Good enough for most datasets.
github.com open_in_new P 
Pinecone Fully managed.
pinecone.io open_in_new2 of 2 replacements have a usable free tier.
