Yes—Scout’s open weights and Milvus’s open-source architecture make fully self-hosted RAG deployments possible without external APIs or licensing.
Milvus runs on your infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, or single-server), while Scout can be deployed on-premises via vLLM, Ollama, or FastAPI. This stack gives you complete data sovereignty: embeddings stay in your network, retrieval vectors never leave your Milvus cluster, and Scout processes queries locally. For regulated industries (healthcare, finance, legal), this eliminates third-party dependencies and ensures audit compliance.
The open-weights approach also enables cost optimization: Scout’s 17B active parameters fit on a single GPU (RTX 4090, A100) with quantization, and Milvus scales from laptop to datacenter without per-query pricing. You own the models, control resource allocation, and can fine-tune Scout on proprietary terminology. Deployment complexity increases versus managed solutions, but the trade-off is zero API costs, predictable infrastructure expense, and full customization.
Related Resources
- Milvus Quickstart — local deployment in minutes
- Milvus as Vector Store with LangChain — integration patterns
- Milvus Blog — deployment and optimization guides