Vespa vs Weaviate

Side-by-side comparison of Vespa and Weaviate: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Vespa AI Search Platform for large-scale vector search, ranking, and real-time inference Visit	Weaviate The open-source AI-native vector database built for production-scale search, RAG, and agents Visit
Category	Vector databases	Vector databases
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
Audience	Technical	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider
Founded	2017	2019
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Key strengths	·Hybrid vector + text + structured search in a single platform ·Native tensor support for complex ML-driven ranking ·Real-time inference at sub-100ms latency at billions-of-document scale ·Streaming search mode for personal/private data (20x cheaper than indexing)	·Billion-scale vector search with multi-tenancy support ·Built-in embeddings — no external pipeline required ·Deployment-agnostic: cloud, self-hosted, or on-prem ·Unified platform for search, RAG, agents, and memory (Engram)