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Qdrant vs Weaviate Enterprise Cloud comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Qdrant
Ranking in Vector Databases
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (8th), AI Data Analysis (10th)
Weaviate Enterprise Cloud
Ranking in Vector Databases
16th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Vector Databases category, the mindshare of Qdrant is 6.4%, down from 8.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Weaviate Enterprise Cloud is 2.5%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Vector Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qdrant6.4%
Weaviate Enterprise Cloud2.5%
Other91.1%
Vector Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Chirag Morajkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
Building accurate no-code resume screeners has saved weeks in document search workflows
I see room for improvement in Qdrant based on what another platform called Weaviate offers. Qdrant provides an excellent vector database with a solid searching method. However, it could elevate its offering by integrating embedding features. Currently, for the workflow automation I build, I rely on other platforms for embedding, so incorporating this feature directly in Qdrant Cloud would eliminate the need to depend on external solutions. A pain point I have encountered was the inactive expiration of the cloud created for certain projects. If the cloud is not used for a week, it gets terminated, which is frustrating. I think increasing that inactivity window in the free tier would be beneficial, as I have faced limitations due to this seven-day inactivity rule, requiring me to reset up the cloud after its termination.
John Venpin - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Intelligensi.ai
Rapid prototyping has transformed our city intelligence search into reliable production services
Weaviate Enterprise Cloud helps us achieve those results in Inteligencity Signal with an excellent SDK. The SDK allows developers to integrate with the cloud solution so that the search is very accurate, but also relatively simple to set up. There is not only speed and accuracy, but ease of setup, provided you are a developer. The SDK is the primary reason why we are using Weaviate Enterprise Cloud. Weaviate Enterprise Cloud is a good all-round product. The support is excellent. I have spoken to people there directly when we have had issues early on, but they were rectified. They also innovate, constantly creating updates and providing new features. They do not stand still. The best features Weaviate Enterprise Cloud offers include the good SDK, speed, and scaling. It is easy to scale as you can go from zero to massive scaling without encountering issues. Regarding Weaviate Enterprise Cloud's governance and security, it is good and pretty standard, with nothing that stands out security-wise. The standard approach makes things easy to integrate with what we are doing. We have not had any security issues, and we are not anticipating any. Regarding Weaviate Enterprise Cloud's accuracy and reliability of output, it is excellent. The reliability of output is very good, and it allows considerable tweaking as well, so we can be very specific in our requirements. The SDK is really excellent, so we can tweak responses and our use of it.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
14%
University
10%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qdrant?
Licensing posed no issues, as Qdrant is open-source software with no upfront fees. Initially, the setup cost was low since we utilized a self-hosted model on a small cloud VM. However, as we added ...
What needs improvement with Qdrant?
The UI can be a bit better, but that is just my own personal opinion. Qdrant is pretty good overall, but it can be improved. For example, the UI could be better, and it has pretty much very generic...
What is your primary use case for Qdrant?
I have been designing vector databases, so I use Qdrant mostly to explore how the engineers at Qdrant have built the whole vector database, specifically the multi-vector system. In terms of usage, ...
What needs improvement with Weaviate Enterprise Cloud?
It would be beneficial to have a way to do an optimized comparison between the embeddings that I have and the embeddings that exist in the vector database.
What is your primary use case for Weaviate Enterprise Cloud?
We are a review website for enterprise IT. We publish reviews for other people to read, either publicly or anonymously. We are also working directly with Weaviate Enterprise Cloud to help them bett...
What advice do you have for others considering Weaviate Enterprise Cloud?
The documentation was excellent and provided a good fit for what we needed to do, including having a hosted service and cloud service with the possibility to have a hybrid search. These features co...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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