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qdrant-tenant-scaling

Guides Qdrant multi-tenant scaling. Use when someone asks 'how to scale tenants', 'one collection per tenant?', 'tenant isolation', 'dedicated shards', or reports tenant performance issues. Also use when multi-tenant workloads outgrow shared infrastructure.

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# What to Do When Scaling Multi-Tenant Qdrant

Do not create one collection per tenant. Does not scale past a few hundred and wastes resources. One company hit the 1000 collection limit after a year of collection-per-repo and had to migrate to payload partitioning. Use a shared collection with a tenant key.

- Understand multitenancy patterns [Multitenancy](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/manage-data/multitenancy/)

Here is a short summary of the patterns:

## Number of Tenants is around 10k

Use the default multitenancy strategy via payload filtering.

Read about [Partition by payload](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/manage-data/multitenancy/?s=partition-by-payload) and [Calibrate performance](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/manage-data/multitenancy/?s=calibrate-performance) for best practices on indexing and query performance.