# Qdrant

Qdrant is an open-source vector search engine written in Rust. It provides similarity search over high-dimensional vectors through a REST and gRPC API, with dense and sparse hybrid search, metadata filters and multivector retrieval. It runs as a managed cloud service, in hybrid or private cloud setups, or at the edge.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/qdrant · data of 2026-11-02

## Facts

- Founded: 2021
- Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
- Employees: 51–200
- Company type: Private, venture-backed
- Latest funding: Series B
- Deployment: Managed cloud, hybrid cloud, private cloud (air-gapped), self-hosted on-premises, and edge
- Best for: Developers and teams building RAG, semantic search and recommendation systems that need hybrid search and metadata filtering, either self-hosted or managed
- Compliance: SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA

## Products

- Qdrant Vector Search Engine: Open-source vector search engine written in Rust, available for self-hosting.
- Qdrant Managed Cloud: Fully managed Qdrant clusters on AWS, GCP or Azure with auto-sharding and high availability.
- Qdrant Hybrid Cloud: Managed Qdrant clusters run on the customer's own Kubernetes infrastructure, with decoupled control and data planes.
- Qdrant Edge (Beta): Lightweight, low-latency vector search close to where data is generated.
- Qdrant Serverless (Waitlist): Serverless Qdrant offering that is currently on a waitlist.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vector Databases | 2 of 30 | 60.5 | 63 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 71.8 | 88.9% |
| google_ai_mode | 59.4 | 81.5% |
| perplexity | 50.2 | 63.0% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Qdrant AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/qdrant, data of 2026-11-02. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).