Bastian Hofmann
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This significantly improves our cloud and hybrid cloud docs: * Adds screenshots * Better structure * More information about payments, including stripe and azure marketplace * Better cluster creation docs * Account setup and invitation docs * Monitoring docs * Cluster upgrade docs * Support docs * Removed duplications
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Create a cluster
Qdrant Cloud offers two types of clusters: Free and Standard.
Free Clusters
Free tier clusters are perfect for prototyping and testing. You don't need a credit card to join.
A free tier cluster only includes 1 single node with the following resources:
| Resource | Value |
|---|---|
| RAM | 1 GB |
| vCPU | 0.5 |
| Disk space | 4 GB |
| Nodes | 1 |
The capacity should be enough to serve up to 1 M vectors of 768 dimensions. To calculate your needs, refer to our documentation on Capacity and sizing.
The choice of cloud providers and regions is limited.
It includes:
- Standard Support
- Basic monitoring
- Basic log access
- Basic alerting
- Version upgrades with downtime
- Only manual snapshots and restores via API
- No dedicated resources
If unused, free tier clusters are automatically suspended after 1 week, and deleted after 4 weeks of inactivity if not reactivated.
You can always upgrade to a standard cluster with more resources and features.
Standard Clusters
On top of the Free cluster features, Standard clusters offer:
- Response time and uptime SLAs
- Dedicated resources
- Backup and disaster recovery
- Multi-node clusters for high availability
- Horizontal and vertical scaling
- Monitoring and log management
- Zero-downtime upgrades for multi-node clusters with replication
You have a broad choice of regions on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
For payment information see Pricing and Payments.
Create a cluster
This page shows you how to use the Qdrant Cloud Console to create a custom Qdrant Cloud cluster.
Prerequisite: Please make sure you have provided billing information before creating a custom cluster.
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Start in the Clusters section of the Cloud Dashboard.
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Select Clusters and then click + Create.
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In the Create a cluster screen select Free or Standard Most of the remaining configuration options are only available for standard clusters.
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Select a provider. Currently, you can deploy to:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Microsoft Azure
- Your own Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
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Choose your data center region or Hybrid Cloud environment.
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Configure RAM for each node.
For more information, see our Capacity and Sizing guidance.
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Choose the number of vCPUs per node. If you add more RAM, the menu provides different options for vCPUs.
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Select the number of nodes you want the cluster to be deployed on.
Each node is automatically attached with a disk space offering enough space for your data for a default setup.
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Select additional disk space for your deployment.
This can be required, if you want to store all data on disk and only use RAM for caching.
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Review your cluster configuration and pricing.
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When you're ready, select Create. It takes some time to provision your cluster.
Once provisioned, you can access your cluster on ports 443 and 6333 (REST) and 6334 (gRPC).
You should now see the new cluster in the Clusters menu.
Next steps
You will need to connect to your new Qdrant Cloud cluster. Follow Authentication to create one or more API keys.
You can also scale your cluster both horizontally andvertically. Read more in Cluster Scaling.
If a new Qdrant version becomes available, you can upgrade your cluster. See Cluster Upgrades.
For more information on creating backups of a cluster and restore from them, see Backups.