Vespa
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| Fact | Vespa | Zilliz Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | Gartner Peer Insights lists Vespa’s founding year as 2023. | 2017 |
| Headquarters | Vespa says its headquarters and engineering hub are in Trondheim, Norway. | Redwood Shores, California, United States |
| Integrations | Vespa Cloud Enclave can run applications in customer accounts on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. | Documented integrations include Prometheus, Datadog, AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and external model providers. |
| Product | Vespa is an AI search platform for online data-driven applications that combines retrieval, ranking, machine-learning inference, and real-time serving. | Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed Milvus service for deploying and scaling vector search applications. |
| Scaling | Vespa distributes functions across node clusters and supports changing cluster size without impacting queries or writes. | Serverless clusters scale automatically to zero. |
| Search | Vespa supports vector and tensor search, positional text search, and search over structured data. | The service supports approximate nearest neighbor vector search, filtered search, hybrid search, and full-text search. |
| Security | 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. | Zilliz Cloud documents TLS 1.2 or higher in transit and AES-256 encryption at rest. |
| Support | The Startup plan includes community support only with no SLA; Cloud plans list unlimited support cases, with response times varying by plan. | Users can contact Zilliz Support to request access to features in private preview. |
Vespa plans
- Startup—
- Basic—
- Commercial—
- Enterprise—
- Enterprise *$0.18 a month
- Self ManagedPriced on request
Zilliz Cloud plans
- Free clusterFree
- Business CriticalPriced on request
- DedicatedPriced on request
- ServerlessPriced on request
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.
Pick Zilliz Cloud if…
The Standard plan is described as suited to prototypes and testing. Enterprise is aimed at production applications, while Business Critical is described for healthcare, finance, and mission-critical systems.