Qdrant Multitenancy

Multitenancy is how you isolate data across multiple users or tenants within a single Qdrant deployment.

• The question to ask is: how many tenants, and how unevenly sized are they? That answer picks the isolation strategy.
• Understand the three isolation levels before choosing: payload-based, shard-based and collection-based.
• For almost everyone the right default is a single collection partitioned by payload, NOT a collection per tenant.

Many Small Tenants (Default: Payload Partitioning)

Use when: you have many tenants of roughly similar, modest size. This is the recommended default for most users.

One collection holds every tenant. A payload field marks ownership, and a filter on that field at query time is what isolates each tenant's results.

How It Works