Billing

Sandbox clusters are free. You do not need a billing account to create a Sandbox cluster.

Shared Cloud clusters are charged for resource usage. The monthly charge is determined by your usage and your support plan. You have to have a billing account to create a Shared Cloud cluster.

To estimate costs for different usage plans, see the pricing page.

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If you have signed up for Weaviate Cloud through an external cloud provider like AWS or GCP, the billing will be managed through that cloud provider's marketplace.

Create an account

Weaviate Cloud (WCD) uses Stripe for billing. To create a Stripe account, follow these steps:

1. Open the Weaviate Cloud console.

2. Open the organization dropdown menu (1).

3. Click on Organization settings ( 2).

Edit an organization in Weaviate Cloud.

4. Under the Billing section, click on the Add payment method button (3).

5. Fill in the needed personal information.
6. Create your Stripe account.

Add payment method to Weaviate Cloud.

Usage charges

Usage charges reflect the number and size of the objects in your collection. Weaviate polls each collection to determine a daily object count.

• If the objects are uncompressed, the billing system multiplies the object count by the number of dimensions to get the vectorDimensionsSum.
• If the objects are compressed, the billing system multiplies the object count by the number of vector segments to get the vectorSegmentsSum.

The values are added together and normalized to get a base price. The base price is multiplied by the pricing rate for the cluster's support plan.

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Significant cost savings can be achieved when compression is enabled.

Support & feedback levels

Weaviate offers three plans with specific support options. Each support plan has a billing rate for usage and a minimum cost per month.

• If the usage cost is less than the monthly minimum charge for the support plan, Weaviate bills the monthly minimum.
• If the usage cost exceeds the monthly minimum, Weaviate bills the minimum amount plus any additional charges.

High availability

All paid plans include highly available (HA) clusters by default.

Billing cycles

Charges are calculated and invoiced for active clusters on the 1st day of each month.

Support & feedback

For help with Shared Cloud and Dedicated Cloud, contact Weaviate support directly to open a support ticket. To add a support plan, contact Weaviate sales.

If you have any questions or feedback, let us know in the user forum.

Technical questions

If you have questions feel free to post on our Community forum.

Documentation feedback

Leave feedback by opening a GitHub issue.