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What both publish
| Fact | Typesense | Vespa |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Typesense can be run locally or on a server, and Typesense Cloud provides a hosted version. | Vespa can be self-managed, run with the Vespa Kubernetes Operator, or deployed on Vespa Cloud. |
| Founded | 2015 | Gartner Peer Insights lists Vespa’s founding year as 2023. |
| Headquarters | Houston, TX | Vespa says its headquarters and engineering hub are in Trondheim, Norway. |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include Firebase, AWS Amplify, Laravel Scout, LangChain, LlamaIndex, InstantSearch, OpenAI, and Google ML platforms. | Vespa Cloud Enclave can run applications in customer accounts on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. |
| Product | Typesense is an open-source, typo-tolerant search engine for instant, typically sub-50ms, search-as-you-type experiences. | Vespa is an AI search platform for online data-driven applications that combines retrieval, ranking, machine-learning inference, and real-time serving. |
| Security | Typesense Cloud says clusters are isolated and dedicated, API traffic is encrypted over HTTPS, and data is protected with full-disk encryption at rest. | The Vespa Cloud security guide describes data-plane requests protected with mutual TLS or, optionally, tokens, and says Vespa.ai has a SOC 2 attestation. |
| Support | Typesense offers community support through GitHub Issues and public Slack, plus paid prioritized support with SLAs, consulting, and training for Cloud. | The Startup plan includes community support only with no SLA; Cloud plans list unlimited support cases, with response times varying by plan. |
Typesense plans
- Self-hostedFree
- Typesense Cloud$22 a month
- Free supportFree
- Typesense Cloud cluster$22 a month
- Developer support$160 a month
- Business support$400 a month
Vespa plans
- Startup—
- Basic—
- Commercial—
- Enterprise—
- Enterprise *$0.18 a month
- Self ManagedPriced on request
Pick Typesense if…
Typesense suits developers who want to add search to an app or website using data they provide. It offers local, self-hosted, and hosted deployment options, with search tools ranging from filters and facets to vector search.
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.