qdrant-scaling-qps

A guide for increasing Qdrant’s query throughput, meaning how many searches it can handle each second. Qdrant is a database for searching numerical representations of data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to tune segments, quantization, batch searches, update limits, CPU use, delayed fan-outs, and read replicas for higher query volume.
Why use it?
It distinguishes handling more simultaneous searches from making one search respond faster.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Fable 5 $0.00061 $0.00843
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00421
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00084

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9db744ddacd4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qdrant-scaling-qps 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 2d ago.

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Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to qdrant-scaling-qps — 0 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-scaling/scaling-qps/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scaling for Query Throughput (QPS)

Throughput scaling means handling more parallel queries per second. This is different from latency - throughput and latency are opposite tuning directions and cannot be optimized simultaneously on the same node.

High throughput favors fewer, larger segments so each query touches less overhead.

Performance Tuning for Higher RPS

  • Use fewer, larger segments (default_segment_number: 2) Maximizing throughput
  • Enable quantization pinned in RAM to reduce disk IO: memory: pinned on Qdrant 1.19 or newer, always_ram: true on 1.18 or older Quantization
  • Use batch search API to amortize overhead Batch search

Minimize impact of Update Workloads

  • Configure update throughput control (v1.17+) to prevent unoptimized searches degrading reads Low latency search
  • Set optimizer_cpu_budget to limit indexing CPUs (e.g. 2 on an 8-CPU node reserves 6 for queries)
  • Configure delayed read fan-out (v1.17+) for tail latency Delayed fan-outs

Horizontal Scaling for Throughput

If a single node is saturated on CPU after applying the tuning above, scale horizontally with read replicas.

  • Shard replicas serve queries from replicated shards, distributing read load across nodes
  • Each replica adds independent query capacity without re-sharding
  • Use replication_factor: 2+ and route reads to replicas Distributed deployment

See also Horizontal Scaling for general horizontal scaling guidance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 2d ago First seen · 57 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 9db744ddacd4

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qdrant-scaling-qps is a skill published in the GitHub repository SecondLifes/code-intel (2 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 843 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to qdrant-scaling-qps, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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