Deployment and Plan Comparison

Zilliz Cloud offers multiple deployment and project plan options to match different workload, reliability, compliance, data sovereignty, and infrastructure requirements.

Before deploying any resources, you need to first decide whether to use SaaS or BYOC. This determines who operates the infrastructure and where the data-plane environment runs.

• If you choose SaaS, you then select a project plan that defines the features, SLA, and compliance capabilities available to resources in that project.

• If you choose BYOC, feature support aligns with the SaaS Business Critical plan.

Select Deployment (SaaS vs. BYOC)

Decision factor	Choose SaaS if...	Choose BYOC if...
Infrastructure ownership	You prefer Zilliz to operate the infrastructure.	Your organization must own the cloud account, VPC/VNet, and data-plane environment.
Data sovereignty	Region-level control is enough.	Data must stay in your own cloud account.
Networking	Public endpoint or standard private networking is acceptable.	You need customer VPC/VNet-local access and private endpoint patterns.
Compliance	SaaS plan controls meet your requirements.	Your requirements demand customer-controlled infrastructure or stricter cloud governance.
Cost model	You prefer packaged SaaS billing.	You want to combine Zilliz BYOC pricing with your own cloud-provider discounts and commitments.
Operations	You want the lowest operational burden.	You can manage shared cloud, network, storage, and security responsibilities.

Select Plan

If you choose BYOC, you do not need to further choose the plan. The feature support for BYOC is the same as the SaaS Business Critical plan. If you choose SaaS deployment, you need to select a plan from the following options:

• Standard: The Standard plan is tailored for non-critical workloads. It is best suited for prototypes and testing environments. See Zilliz Cloud Pricing for details.

• Enterprise: The Enterprise plan provides enterprise-grade reliability and controls. It is best suited for production applications. See Zilliz Cloud Pricing for details.

• Business Critical: The Business Critical plan is regulated-ready with maximum resilience. It is best suited for healthcare, finance, mission-critical systems. To select the Business Critical plan, contact sales.

Feature	Standard (SaaS)	Enterprise (SaaS)	Business Critical (SaaS) and BYOC
Uptime SLA	--	99.95%	Business Critical: 99.99% (If multi-replica is enabled) BYOC: 99.95%
Manual scaling
Auto-scaling (including scheduled and dynamic scaling)
Replica
Global cluster
On-demand compute
Volume
Migration
Metrics & alerts
Observability integrations (Datadog, Prometheus)
Snapshot
Basic backup & restore
Cross-region backup			📘Note Cross-region backup is currently not supported in BYOC.
Storage integrations (AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage)
Role-based access control (RBAC)
Single sign-on (SSO)
Console IP allowlist
Cluster IP allowlist			📘Note Cluster IP allowlist is currently not supported in BYOC.
Private endpoints
Customer-managed encryption key (CMEK)
Audit logs
Access logs