# Vespa

Vespa is an AI search platform for vector, text and structured search, with distributed machine-learned ranking and machine-learned model inference in one engine. It handles real-time updates and is offered as the open-source Vespa project and as Vespa Cloud, a fully managed service.

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

## Facts

- Founded: 2023
- Headquarters: Trondheim, Norway
- Employees: 51–200
- Company type: Private, venture-backed
- Latest funding: Series A, led by Blossom Capital
- Deployment: Open source for self-hosting, Vespa Cloud fully managed on AWS and Google Cloud marketplaces, and Enclave, which runs hosts in the customer's own cloud account.
- Best for: Teams building search, retrieval-augmented generation, recommendation and personalization applications that must run at large scale.

## Products

- Vespa: Open-source AI search platform for retrieval, ranking, machine learning inference and real-time updates in one engine.
- Vespa Cloud: Fully managed hosting of Vespa, billed on usage, with dev, production and enterprise support tiers.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vector Databases | 17 of 30 | 3.8 | 9 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 5.9 | 14.8% |
| google_ai_mode | 2.2 | 7.4% |
| perplexity | 3.1 | 11.1% |

## 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, “Vespa AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/vespa, data of 2026-11-02. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).