# Scale Faster with Managed Weaviate: Now in Public Preview on DigitalOcean

DevFeed: [Scale Faster with Managed Weaviate: Now in Public Preview on DigitalOcean](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/scale-faster-with-managed-weaviate-now-in-public-preview-on-digitalocean-19935.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/public-preview-managed-weaviate>)

Author: Waverly Swinton

Published: 2026-07-09T19:08:52Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [DigitalOcean](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/digitalocean.md>)

Topics: [Digital Ocean](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/digital-ocean.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/autoscaling.md>), [Self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/self-hosted.md>), [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [gRPC](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grpc.md>)

Tags: [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autoscaling.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [digitalocean](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digitalocean.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [high-availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/high-availability.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hosting.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [preview](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/preview.md>), [product-updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-updates.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [rest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rest.md>), [retrieval](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retrieval.md>), [run](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/run.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [upgrades](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/upgrades.md>), [workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflows.md>)

## AI overview

DigitalOcean has placed Managed Weaviate into public preview. The service provides fully managed Weaviate clusters with automated backups, security patching, version upgrades, high availability, and storage autoscaling, with pricing starting at $20 per month.

## Source excerpt

Production Weaviate in minutes, managed by DigitalOcean. Starting at $20/month. Vector databases have become a core piece of the AI application stack. Whether you're building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, agentic workflows and memory, or similarity-based recommendations, you need a vector store that's reliable, fast, and doesn't require a dedicated ops engineer to keep running. Weaviate has become a critical part of that stack -- its open-source AI-native vector database powers semantic search, RAG, and agentic workflows for thousands of companies. Self-hosting Weaviate is doable but it comes at a cost. You're on the hook for backups, version upgrades, security patches, high availability configuration, and storage scaling. That's real time and real engineering capacity that isn't going toward your product. Managed alternatives from larger cloud vendors exist, but they often come with per-query fees, per-dimension surcharges, and pricing models that are difficult to predict as usage grows. Today, we're announcing that Managed Weaviate is now in public preview on DigitalOcean, offering an easy way for you to run Weaviate in production, at a price that makes sense from day one. The easiest way to run Weaviate in production Managed Weaviate on DigitalOcean handles the operational work so you don't have to. Provision a fully managed Weaviate cluster directly from the DigitalOcean control panel. From there, automated backups, security patching, version upgrades, high availability, and storage autoscaling are handled for you. Full Weaviate client compatibility via GraphQL, REST, and gRPC on port 443 means your existing code works without modification. This means you get Weaviate's full capabilities -- semantic and hybrid search, RAG pipelines, and support for agent-driven workflows -- without spending engineering time on the infrastructure beneath them. Predictable pricing, starting at $20/month We built Managed Weaviate with flat, predictable monthly