Qdrant
Distribution-Based Score Fusion + RRF. Sparse vectors native; filtering via ANN graph modification.
Active · Verified 2026-10-26 · fresh as of 2026-10-26 · 60 cited facts, 4 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Vector DB + DBSF + RRF vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Vector-database infrastructure
- Latest release
- v1.19.2 (2026-10-05) repo fix
- License
- Apache-2.0 repo fix
- GitHub
- qdrant/qdrant — ~34.9k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo fix
- Pricing
- Free tier forever (single node, 1 GB RAM / 4 GB disk); Standard usage-based hourly billing; Premium has minimum spend; Hybrid/Private Cloud via sales vendor fix
- Funding
- $78M total Series B · 2026-03 third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-26 fix
- Layer
- model-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source repo fix
- SDK languages
- csharp, go, java, python, rest, rust, typescript vendor fix
- Protocols
- mcp-server vendor fix
- Compliance
- gdpr, hipaa, soc2-type2 vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 27.72 (12-mo avg 36.53) · 88 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: low-latency similarity search + scale
Anti-fit: not for relational / graph-heavy queries (vector-first by design)
Pros & cons
Pros
Rust-built — fastest of the OSS vector DBs in many benchmarks; strong filtering and hybrid search; clean API.
Cons
Smaller managed-cloud presence than Pinecone; ecosystem of integrations still maturing relative to Weaviate.
Claims & capabilities
Maintains official benchmark suite (qdrant/benchmark + qdrant/vector-db-benchmark); added 35 new integrations in 2025 including official n8n node; uses ann-benchmarks dataset for cross-engine comparisons
Technical surface
- API surface
- REST, gRPC, SDK: Python, JS/TS, Rust, Go, Java, C#
- Backend storage
- custom (Rust-built HNSW + RocksDB metadata)
- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS engine; Qdrant Managed Cloud, Hybrid Cloud and Private Cloud
- Embedding model
- BYO
- Multi-tenancy
- Hardened unprivileged container per cluster with strict network policies; outbound restricted; paid plans on dedicated resources; Private Cloud option for air-gap
- MCP
- yes — official qdrant/mcp-server-qdrant (GitHub, Apache-2.0)
- A2A
- no Google A2A (Agent2Agent) integration documented as of 2026-05.
- OpenTelemetry
- first-class — Prometheus + OTel
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- pgvector T1
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- Milvus T1
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- Pinecone T1
Managed vector DB. Cascading sparse + dense + rerank pipeline; pinecone-rerank-v0 .
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search T1
Agent memory store for both short-term (document) and long-term (vector). LangGraph checkpointer for stateful agents. Vector search extended to Community Edition (Sept 2025).
Sources (59 cited facts, 4 third-party)
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- What it is Vector DB + DBSF + RRF vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Distribution-Based Score Fusion + RRF. Sparse vectors native; filtering via ANN graph mo… vendor
- Claims / benefits Maintains official benchmark suite (qdrant/benchmark + qdrant/vector-db-benchmark); adde… vendor
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2020-05 repo
- Latest release v1.19.2 (2026-10-05) repo
- License Apache-2.0 repo
- GitHub qdrant/qdrant — ~34.9k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Mindshare 4 inbound 674 jobs 193 HN · 3 press third-party
- Funding $78M total Series B · 2026-03 third-party
- Customers / scale 51-200 ppl Tripadvisor, HubSpot, OpenTable, Bazaarvoice, Bosch vendor
- Pricing Free tier forever (single node, 1 GB RAM / 4 GB disk); Standard usage-based hourly billi… vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA vendor
- Data handling Never trains on customer data (Hybrid Cloud: Qdrant has no access to data); self-hostabl… vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS engine; Qdrant Managed Cloud, Hybrid Cloud and … vendor
- HQ DE vendor
- Founders / pedigree Benchmark / Unusual Ventures; co-founders Andrey Vasnetsov (CTO; Bauman Moscow State Tec… third-party
- Memory volume / scale no scale claim vendor
- Performance Qdrant publishes ANN-Benchmarks: 4-10× faster than competitors at equivalent recall (Qdr… vendor
- API surface REST, gRPC, SDK: Python, JS/TS, Rust, Go, Java, C# vendor
- Backend storage custom (Rust-built HNSW + RocksDB metadata) vendor
- Multi-tenancy Hardened unprivileged container per cluster with strict network policies; outbound restr… vendor
- Encryption AES-256 at rest, TLS in transit; SOC 2 Type II + HIPAA vendor
- SSO / RBAC SSO + RBAC vendor
- Embedding model BYO vendor
- Consistency eventual vendor
- Versioning none vendor
- Tombstoning hard-delete supported vendor
- Schema evolution schema with migration vendor
- Namespace primitives per-tenant vendor
- Contradiction handling always overwrite (last-write-wins) vendor
- Forgetting policy user-controlled forget vendor
- MCP support yes — official qdrant/mcp-server-qdrant (GitHub, Apache-2.0) repo
- OTel first-class — Prometheus + OTel vendor
- Import / export Snapshots; JSON via REST vendor
- Runtimes Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, Go, .NET, Java vendor
- Validated verticals RAG developers, agent builders (broad horizontal); financial-services, healthcare, legal… vendor
- Time to running <10min (managed cloud) to <1hr (self-host Docker) vendor
- Anti-fit not for relational / graph-heavy queries (vector-first by design) vendor
- Optimised for low-latency similarity search + scale vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure BYO embedding model + LLM; this IS the vector store vendor
- Pros Rust-built — fastest of the OSS vector DBs in many benchmarks; strong filtering and hybr… vendor
- Cons Smaller managed-cloud presence than Pinecone; ecosystem of integrations still maturing r… vendor
- Project & sources qdrant.tech GitHub qdrant/qdrant vendor
- commit-trajectory [{"ym":"2025-11","cum":5011},{"ym":"2025-12","cum":5149},{"ym":"2026-02","cum":5414},{"y… repo
- download-trajectory [{"ym":"2025-11","monthly":5218352,"cum":5218352},{"ym":"2025-12","monthly":10847976,"cu… registry
- cost-input-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-output-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-tier free vendor
- cost-pricing-model free-tier vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- licensing-bucket open-source repo
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup model-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":305.06,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":36.53,"openrank_current":27.72,"par… third-party
- compliance-certifications gdpr,hipaa,soc2-type2 vendor
- sdk-languages csharp,go,java,python,rest,rust,typescript vendor
- protocol-support mcp-server vendor
What changed
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- 2026-10-26
- Latest release “v1.17.1 2026-03-27” → “v1.19.2 (2026-10-05)” source
- Pricing “Free + paid” → “Free tier forever (single node, 1 GB RAM / 4 GB disk); Standard usage-based hourly billing; Premium has minimum spend; Hybrid/Private Cloud via sales” source
- Deployment “Both” → “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS engine; Qdrant Managed Cloud, Hybrid Cloud and Private Cloud” source
- MCP support “via official adapter — mcp-server-qdrant” → “yes — official qdrant/mcp-server-qdrant (GitHub, Apache-2.0)” source
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References (30)
- AutoGen / AG2 integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a AutoGen / AG2 integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- CAMEL integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a CAMEL integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cognee integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Cognee integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cohere Embed integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Cohere Embed integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Confident AI / DeepEval integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Confident AI / DeepEval integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- CrewAI integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Dagster integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Dagster integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- DSPy integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a DSPy integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Genkit integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Genkit integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Gemini 3 family integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Google Gemini 3 family integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- GraphRAG (Microsoft) integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a GraphRAG (Microsoft) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Haystack (framework) integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Haystack (framework) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Jina AI Embeddings integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Jina AI Embeddings integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a LangChain (framework) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangGraph (orchestration) integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a LangGraph (orchestration) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a LlamaIndex (framework) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mastra integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Mastra integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mem0 integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Mem0 integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mistral Embed integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Mistral Embed integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mixedbread AI integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Mixedbread AI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- n8n (AI agent flows) integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a n8n (AI agent flows) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Neo4j integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Neo4j integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Nomic Embed integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Nomic Embed integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI Embeddings integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a OpenAI Embeddings integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenLLMetry (Traceloop) integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a OpenLLMetry (Traceloop) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Phidata (now Agno) integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Phidata integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- smolagents (Hugging Face) integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a smolagents (Hugging Face) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Spring AI ChatMemory integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Spring AI ChatMemory integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Voyage AI (MongoDB) integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Voyage AI (MongoDB) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Referenced by (23)
- Agno (Phidata) Memory integrates with — Single-line integrations with LanceDB, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant.
- Arize Phoenix integrates with — Arize Phoenix docs have a Qdrant integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Bifrost (Maxim AI) integrates with — Bifrost docs have a Qdrant vector-database integration page for semantic caching. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cohere Embed integrates with — Cohere docs "Integrating Embedding Models with Other Tools": Qdrant and Cohere guide. (verified 2026-10-29)
- CrewAI integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Qdrant vector search tool page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Dify integrates with — Dify self-host VECTOR_STORE supports `qdrant` as the knowledge-base vector store. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) integrates with — ADK integrations catalog has a "Qdrant MCP tool for ADK" page (Store and retrieve information using semantic vector search). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Haystack (framework) integrates with — Haystack integrations directory has a Qdrant integration page ("Use the Qdrant vector database with Haystack"). (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — LangChain docs have a Qdrant integration provider page (Vector similarity search engine). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langflow integrates with — Langflow components bundle: Qdrant vector store component. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangGraph (orchestration) integrates with — LangChain integrations index lists QdrantStore, a Qdrant BaseStore for LangGraph long-term memory (langgraph-store-qdrant). (verified 2026-10-29)
- LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — LlamaIndex has an official vector store integration package llama-index-vector-stores-qdrant in its repo. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mastra integrates with — Mastra repo ships the @mastra/qdrant vector store package. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mem0 integrates with · depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: BYO LLM provider; bundles vector store (Qdrant default) and graph store (Neo4j optional)
- Mem0 Security / OpenMemory builds on — OpenMemory is the local self-hosted variant (Docker + FastAPI + Postgres + Qdrant)
- Microsoft Semantic Kernel integrates with — Semantic Kernel docs list an out-of-the-box Qdrant vector store connector. (verified 2026-10-29)
- n8n (AI agent flows) integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Qdrant Vector Store node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- n8n AI Agent Memory integrates with — vector store nodes (Qdrant, Pinecone, MongoDB Atlas) for semantic recall
- OpenLLMetry (Traceloop) integrates with — OpenLLMetry's What's Supported page lists Qdrant as instrumented out of the box. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenMemory (now LongMemory) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: BYO LLM; self-hosted Postgres + Qdrant
- OpenMemory MCP builds on — Local Postgres + Qdrant cross-tool memory
- Phidata (now Agno) integrates with — Agno ships a qdrant vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.qdrant). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Qdrant vector database integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)