qdrant-deployment-options

A guide for choosing how to run Qdrant, a database used to store and search numerical representations of data. It compares local, Docker, self-hosted, cloud, and EDGE setups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting Qdrant, moving from a prototype to production, or deciding between local, self-hosted, cloud, and EDGE deployment.
Why use it?
It helps you choose a deployment that fits your project instead of changing infrastructure without knowing the trade-offs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/secondlifes/code-intel/qdrant-deployment-options
Any agent
npx skills add SecondLifes/code-intel --skill qdrant-deployment-options
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SecondLifes/code-intel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 838 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00079 $0.00838
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00419
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00084

Measured yesterday against content hash 0982f80a42f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qdrant-deployment-options scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to qdrant-deployment-options — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/qdrant-deployment-options/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Which Qdrant Deployment Do I Need?

Usage

You say What happens
"Should we move CodeIntel's Qdrant to Cloud/cluster/EDGE?" Walk the decision tree below against this repo's actual profile: single-operator local-first tool, mcp-config.json's qdrant_url defaulting to http://127.0.0.1:6333 — currently self-hosted/local by design, not a given to change.
Ambiguous/no specific deployment question Read the "Getting Started or Prototyping" section first — closest match to this repo's current setup.

Start with what you need: managed ops or full control? Network latency acceptable or not? Production or prototyping? The answer narrows to one of four options.

Getting Started or Prototyping

Use when: building a prototype, running tests, CI/CD pipelines, or learning Qdrant.

  • Use local mode (Python only): zero-dependency, in-memory or disk-persisted, no server needed Local mode
  • Local mode data format is NOT compatible with server. Do not use for production or benchmarking.
  • For a real server locally, use Docker Quick start

Going to Production (Self-Hosted)

Use when: you need full control over infrastructure, data residency, or custom configuration.

  • Docker is the default deployment. Full Qdrant Open Source feature set, minimal setup. Quick start
  • You own operations: upgrades, backups, scaling, monitoring
  • Must set up distributed mode manually for multi-node clusters Distributed deployment
  • Consider Hybrid Cloud if you want Qdrant Cloud management on your infrastructure Hybrid Cloud

Going to Production (Zero-Ops)

Use when: you want managed infrastructure with zero-downtime updates, automatic backups, and resharding without operating clusters yourself.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 62 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 0982f80a42f7

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qdrant-deployment-options is a skill published in the GitHub repository SecondLifes/code-intel (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 838 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to qdrant-deployment-options, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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