Chroma is open-source data infrastructure for AI that stores embeddings and metadata and supports search and retrieval across text, images, and other modalities.
Alternatives to Azure AI Search
Vespa is an AI search platform for online, data-driven applications, combining retrieval, ranking, machine-learning inference, and real-time serving.
Algolia is an API-first search solution that combines keyword and semantic methods to return relevant results.
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SingleStore Helios
SingleStore Helios is a cloud database-as-a-service available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS8.1Free plan - 5

Apache Solr
Apache Solr is a free, open-source search platform built on Apache Lucene, with full-text, vector, and geospatial search.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxmacOS7.8Free plan - 6

Pinecone
Pinecone is a fully managed vector database for AI workloads, available through web and API access.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.8From $20 a month - 7

Typesense
Typesense is an open-source search engine for adding search to a website or app.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.3Free plan - 8

Meilisearch
Meilisearch is a search engine that developers can add to a website or application, either by self-hosting or using its cloud service.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.2From $20 a month - 9
Weaviate
Weaviate is an open-source AI vector database for storing, indexing, and searching high-dimensional vectors.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.1$45 usage-based - 10

Qdrant
Qdrant is a vector similarity search engine and API for storing, searching, and managing vectors alongside payload data.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.9Free plan - 11

Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is an open-source distributed search and analytics engine for applications involving speed, scale and AI.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.7From $99 a month - 12

OpenSearch
OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source suite for ingesting, searching, visualizing, and analyzing data.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.7Free plan - 13

Redis Insight
Redis Insight is a free developer tool for working with Redis through a graphical interface and command line.
Free planWebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.7Free plan - 14
Milvus
Milvus is a free, open-source vector database for GenAI applications, developed by Zilliz.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.4Free plan - 15

Zilliz Cloud
Zilliz Cloud is a managed Milvus service for deploying and scaling vector search applications.
Free planWebAPI6.4Free plan - 16

LanceDB
LanceDB is an AI-native multimodal lakehouse for developing training datasets.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.2Free plan - 17

Vertex AI Vector Search
Vertex AI Vector Search is a vector search engine for search, recommendations, and generative AI applications.
WebAPI5.8 - 18
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