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Milvus

★ 32k

Battle-tested vector database that scales to billions of embeddings across distributed clusters.

Milvus does the job of Pinecone, self-hosted. It is Apache-2.0-licensed, so you can do essentially what you like with it, and running it properly takes real ops work. Pinecone bills $70 for it. 32k stars on GitHub.

Open-source replacement for Pinecone.

Licence
Apache-2.0
Self-hosting
Hard
The paid one costs
$70
GitHub stars
32k
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Is it actually a replacement?

We have written a verdict on what it replaces — what you lose, and why people still pay:

How Milvus runs

Where it runs

Milvus runs on your server.

What setup takes

not verified by us yet — check the repo README.

Milvus questions

Is Milvus open source?

Yes — it is released under Apache-2.0.

Can Milvus replace Pinecone?

Our verdict on Pinecone is YES. NocoDB (64k stars), Milvus (32k stars), Qdrant (22k stars) are mature open-source replacements for Pinecone — self-host in one command and stop paying $50/mo.

Can I self-host Milvus?

Yes — we rate it hard to self-host, and it runs on your server.

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