Appwrite vs Weaviate
Open-source BaaS for building full-stack apps
vs. Open-source vector DB with hybrid search + modular embeddings
Pricing tiers
Appwrite
Self-Hosted
Run Appwrite on your own infrastructure. MIT licensed — no usage limits.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud Free
Managed cloud. Hard caps: 1 team member, 1 database per project.
Free
Cloud Pro
From $15/member/month. 2 TB bandwidth, 150 GB storage, 200k MAU, 3.5M executions, unlimited databases + team members.
$15/mo
Cloud Scale
$599/month flat for the org. Higher included usage + advanced security. Deprecated in some regions — check.
$599/mo
Enterprise
Custom pricing. SOC 2, HIPAA (on request), dedicated infra, SLAs.
Custom
Weaviate
Sandbox (14-day trial)
14-day free trial. Shared cloud cluster. 250 Query Agent req/month.
$0 base (usage-based)
Self-Hosted (OSS)
BSD-3 licensed. Run free on your infra.
$0 base (usage-based)
Flex
From $45/mo pay-as-you-go. Shared HA cluster. 99.5% uptime. 30k Query Agent reqs/mo.
$45/mo
Premium
From $400/mo prepaid. Shared or dedicated. 99.95% uptime. SSO/SAML. Unlimited Query Agent. HIPAA on AWS.
$400/mo
Enterprise
Custom. BYOC / private deployment.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Appwrite vs sandbox on Weaviate.
| Metric | Appwrite | Weaviate |
|---|---|---|
| bandwidth gb month | 5 GB/month | — |
| databases per project | 1 databases | — |
| function duration s | 30 seconds | — |
| function executions | 750000 exec/month | — |
| mau | 75000 users/month | — |
| storage gb | 2 GB | — |
| team members | 1 members | — |
Features
Appwrite · 13 features
- Account (Auth) — User authentication: email/password, magic URLs, phone OTP, anonymous, 30+ OAuth…
- Avatars — Generated avatars, country flags, credit-card icons, QR codes, favicons.
- Databases — NoSQL collections with attribute types, indexes, permissions per document/collec…
- Events System — Unified event bus: subscribe in Functions, Webhooks, Realtime using event string…
- Functions — Serverless functions in 13+ runtimes (Node, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Dart, Deno, S…
- Messaging — Multi-channel messaging: Push (FCM/APNs), SMS (Twilio/Vonage/Msg91), Email (Mail…
- Migrations — Import from Firebase, Supabase, NHost, or another Appwrite project.
- Permissions (ACLs) — Per-document / per-collection ACLs: Role.user(), Role.team(), Role.any(), Role.g…
- Realtime — WebSocket subscriptions to events: database changes, auth, storage, function exe…
- Sites — Deploy static and SSR frameworks (Next, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Astro, Remix) direct fr…
- Storage — File buckets with access control, auto-transforms (image preview), antivirus, en…
- Teams — Group users with shared access + roles. Used for row-level permissions on resour…
- Webhooks — HTTP callbacks on any Appwrite event. Signed with x-appwrite-webhook-signature.
Weaviate · 13 features
- Backups — S3, GCS, Azure Blob backup destinations.
- BYOC — Run managed Weaviate in your own cloud account.
- Compression (PQ/BQ/RQ) — Reduce vector memory footprint by up to 32x.
- Dynamic Indexing — HNSW + flat + dynamic index selection.
- Generative Search — Search + RAG answers in one API call.
- Hybrid Search — Combine BM25 + dense vector search in one query.
- Modular Vectorizers — 60+ plug-in vectorizers + generative AI modules.
- Multi-Tenancy — Per-tenant isolated vector stores in one cluster.
- Query Agent (AI) — Agentic natural-language query generator.
- RBAC — Role-based access control for collections + tenants.
- Replication — Multi-node async + sync replication.
- Self-Host (OSS) — BSD-3 licensed. Docker + k8s Helm.
- Structured Filters — Metadata filters pre + post vector search.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Appwrite | Weaviate |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Appwrite CLI | — |
| SDK | Android SDK (Kotlin), Apple SDK (Swift), Dart Server SDK, Deno SDK, Flutter SDK, Kotlin Server SDK, .NET Server SDK, Node.js Server SDK, PHP Server SDK, Python Server SDK, React Native SDK, Ruby Server SDK, Swift Server SDK, Web SDK (browser) | weaviate-client, weaviate-go-client, weaviate-java-client, weaviate-ts-client |
| REST | REST API | Weaviate REST API |
| GRAPHQL | GraphQL API | Weaviate GraphQL |
| MCP | Appwrite MCP Server | Weaviate MCP |
| OTHER | Realtime WebSocket | Weaviate gRPC |
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