Elasticsearch
6.7#6 in vector databasesFrom $99 a monthWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
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What both publish
| Fact | Elasticsearch | Vespa |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | It can run on premises, in the cloud, across clouds, or as a managed serverless service. | Vespa can be self-managed, run with the Vespa Kubernetes Operator, or deployed on Vespa Cloud. |
| Founded | 2012 | Gartner Peer Insights lists Vespa’s founding year as 2023. |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Mountain View, California, United States | Vespa says its headquarters and engineering hub are in Trondheim, Norway. |
| Integrations | Elastic describes 350+ integrations and supports ingestion through Elastic Agent, connectors, APIs, language clients, and Logstash. | Vespa Cloud Enclave can run applications in customer accounts on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. |
| Search | It supports full-text, semantic, and hybrid search with filters, ranking, and reranking. | Vespa supports vector and tensor search, positional text search, and search over structured data. |
| Support | Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless offer four support tiers depending on subscription tier. | The Startup plan includes community support only with no SLA; Cloud plans list unlimited support cases, with response times varying by plan. |
Elasticsearch plans
- BasicPriced on request
- Standard$99 a month
- Gold$114 a month
- Platinum$131 a month
- Enterprise$184 a month
- Elastic Cloud Serverless—
Vespa plans
- Startup—
- Basic—
- Commercial—
- Enterprise—
- Enterprise *$0.18 a month
- Self ManagedPriced on request
Pick Elasticsearch if…
Elasticsearch suits teams building search or analytics applications that need full-text, semantic or vector search. It also fits organisations choosing between self-managed, cloud-hosted and serverless deployment.
Pick Vespa if…
Vespa suits teams building AI applications that depend on search quality, ranking, fresh real-time data, or increasing retrieval traffic. It offers local, self-managed, and cloud deployment options.