Milvus io by milvus-io

Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

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Verdict 79/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty Last release 20 days ago

Self-host Milvus io on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
79 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
44k
4.0k forks

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
100
maturity
100
community
93
security
70
sustainability
65
adoption
43

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 44k github.com/milvus-io/milvus
GitHub forks 4.0k github.com/milvus-io/milvus

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age6.6 yearssince Sep 2019
Last commit2 days agoMay 5, 2026
Releases shipped158last: 20 days ago

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

Security advisories

2 known advisories tracked via OSV.dev. Most recent: CVE-2026-26190.

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Ready to self-host Milvus io?

Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.

Data last refreshed May 7, 2026.

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