Zilliz

Zilliz Cloud is the managed vector database service built by the Milvus maintainers. It exposes a Control Plane API for cluster management and a Data Plane API for vector operations. Offers Serverless, Dedicated, and BYOC plans.

Zilliz publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Vector Database, AI, Cloud, Milvus, and Managed.

Zilliz’s developer surface includes developer portal, pricing, and 10 more developer resources.

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23.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

2 APIs

Vector DatabaseAICloudMilvusManaged

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

Composite quality — 23.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 9.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Zilliz Cloud Control Plane API

The Control Plane API manages clusters (create / modify / suspend), users, roles, backups, alerts, metrics, and billing. Authentication is Bearer with a Zilliz API key.

Zilliz Cloud Data Plane API

Data Plane endpoints handle collection, vector, partition, index, and role operations on a specific cluster. Authentication accepts either a Zilliz API key or a cluster `db_admi...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Zilliz Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Zilliz Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Maintainer of Milvus

ParentRelationship

Source (apis.yml)

aid: zilliz
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zilliz/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Zilliz
kind: company
description: Zilliz Cloud is the managed vector database service built by the Milvus maintainers. It exposes a Control Plane
  API for cluster management and a Data Plane API for vector operations. Offers Serverless, Dedicated, and BYOC plans.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/zilliz.png
tags:
- Vector Database
- AI
- Cloud
- Milvus
- Managed
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: zilliz:zilliz-control-plane
  name: Zilliz Cloud Control Plane API
  humanURL: https://docs.zilliz.com/reference/restful
  baseURL: https://api.cloud.zilliz.com/v2
  tags:
  - REST
  - Cluster Management
  - Billing
  - Backups
  description: The Control Plane API manages clusters (create / modify / suspend), users, roles, backups, alerts, metrics,
    and billing. Authentication is Bearer with a Zilliz API key.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.zilliz.com/reference/restful
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.zilliz.com/reference/restful
- aid: zilliz:zilliz-data-plane
  name: Zilliz Cloud Data Plane API
  humanURL: https://docs.zilliz.com/reference/restful
  baseURL: https://{cluster_endpoint}/v2/vectordb
  tags:
  - REST
  - Collections
  - Vectors
  - Search
  description: Data Plane endpoints handle collection, vector, partition, index, and role operations on a specific cluster.
    Authentication accepts either a Zilliz API key or a cluster `db_admin:password` pair.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.zilliz.com/reference/restful
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/zilliz-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zilliz-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/zilliztech
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zilliz
- type: Website
  url: https://zilliz.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://docs.zilliz.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://zilliz.com/pricing
- type: ParentRelationship
  title: Maintainer of Milvus
  url: https://milvus.io/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/zilliz-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/zilliz-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/zilliz-finops.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://zilliz.com/partners
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.zilliz.com/llms.txt
integrations:
- name: AWS
- name: Arize AI
- name: Voxel51
- name: Confluent
- name: Microsoft
- name: Google Cloud
- name: Airbyte
- name: NVIDIA
- name: OpenAI
- name: Hugging Face
- name: Cohere
- name: LangChain
- name: LlamaIndex
- name: PyTorch
- name: Data Science Dojo
- name: Voyage AI
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com