# Elastic Enterprise Search vs Sinequa

| Attribute | Elastic Enterprise Search | Sinequa |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 40.2 (73% (medium)) | 66.2 (30% (low)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A distributed, full-text and vector search engine that enables organizations to ingest, analyze, and act on data at scale. Available as open source, managed cloud service, or self-hosted with enterprise features for security monitoring, observability, and compliance requirements. It is indexed under AI Enterprise Search.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"What is Elastic Enterprise Search?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic Enterprise Search offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Free, Elastic Cloud (Managed) and Enterprise Self-Managed. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"Is Elastic Enterprise Search free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic Enterprise Search supports the web, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"What platforms does Elastic Enterprise Search support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Elastic Enterprise Search can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"Can Elastic Enterprise Search be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 19 integrations for Elastic Enterprise Search, including Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, IBM Resilient, xMatters and Logstash, plus 11 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.elastic.co","question":"What does Elastic Enterprise Search integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Elastic Enterprise Search. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elastic Enterprise Search not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance","question":"What security certifications does Elastic Enterprise Search have?","confidence":0.7}]` | `[{"answer":"An enterprise AI context platform that securely unifies knowledge across organizational data sources, enabling AI agents, assistants, and intelligent search while maintaining document-level security and preventing hallucinations. It is indexed under AI Enterprise Search.","source":"https://www.sinequa.com","question":"What is Sinequa?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Sinequa. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.sinequa.com","question":"What platforms does Sinequa support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Sinequa can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.sinequa.com/product/pricing/","question":"Can Sinequa be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 9 integrations for Sinequa, including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Salesforce, Confluence, Jira and Impact, plus 1 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.sinequa.com","question":"What does Sinequa integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Sinequa. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Sinequa not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.sinequa.com/resources/assets/information-driven-compliance-and-insight/","question":"What security certifications does Sinequa have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Sinequa is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and France.","source":"https://www.sinequa.com/product/pricing/","question":"Where is Sinequa available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An AI-powered search platform available as a managed cloud service or locally deployable application, combining traditional search with generative AI capabilities for enterprise data discovery and analytics. | An enterprise AI context platform that securely unifies knowledge across organizational data sources, enabling AI agents, assistants, and intelligent search while maintaining document-level security and preventing hallucinations. |
| features.capabilities | `{"pricing_model":"tiered_cloud_consumption","deployment_model":"hybrid","generative_ai_answer_synthesis_rag":true,"bring_your_own_llm_byo_model_support":true,"multi_lingual_semantic_understanding":true,"source_system_rbac_permissions_mirroring":true,"hybrid_dense_and_sparse_lexical_reranking":true,"optical_character_recognition_ocr_for_pdfs":true,"admin_dashboard_for_search_analytics_and_gaps":true,"personalization_based_on_user_department_context":true,"pre_built_native_crawlers_for_100_plus_saas_apps":true}` | `{"soc2_type_ii":true,"deployment_model":"hybrid","generative_ai_answer_synthesis_rag":true,"bring_your_own_llm_byo_model_support":true,"hipaa_compliance_for_medical_records":true,"source_system_rbac_permissions_mirroring":true,"hybrid_dense_and_sparse_lexical_reranking":true,"personalization_based_on_user_department_context":true,"pre_built_native_crawlers_for_100_plus_saas_apps":true}` |
| integrations.count | 13 | 200 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Beats"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Elastic Connectors"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud"},{"name":"IBM watsonx"},{"name":"Vectorize.io"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"Splunk"},{"name":"Webhooks"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock","native":true,"category":"ai_models"},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker","native":true,"category":"ml_platform"},{"name":"Jina AI","native":true,"category":"ai_models"},{"name":"Cohere","native":true,"category":"ai_models"},{"name":"LangChain","native":true,"category":"ai_framework"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure_as_code"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","native":true,"category":"ai_assistant"},{"name":"Elastic Agent","native":true,"category":"monitoring"},{"name":"Elastic APM","native":true,"category":"monitoring"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"container_orchestration"}]` | `[{"name":"Microsoft Azure"},{"name":"Microsoft 365"},{"name":"Microsoft Copilot"},{"name":"ChatGPT Enterprise"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Confluence"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Impact"},{"name":"Github"},{"name":"ServiceNow","native":true,"category":"it_service_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Microsoft SharePoint","native":true,"category":"document_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Azure AD","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Office 365 Teams","native":true,"category":"collaboration","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Amazon S3","native":true,"category":"cloud_storage","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure Storage","native":true,"category":"cloud_storage","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Yammer","native":true,"category":"collaboration","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"IBM Connections","native":true,"category":"collaboration","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OpenText","native":true,"category":"content_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Alfresco","native":true,"category":"content_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Veeva","native":true,"category":"content_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"iManage Work","native":true,"category":"document_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Oracle WebCenter","native":true,"category":"portal","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Mimecast","native":true,"category":"email_security","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"MediaWiki","native":true,"category":"wiki","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"HBase","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Hadoop File System","native":true,"category":"big_data","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Jahia","native":true,"category":"content_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Jalios","native":true,"category":"content_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Adobe Experience Manager","native":true,"category":"content_management","direction":"inbound"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","FR"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["Distributed search and analytics engine","Basic authentication, RBAC, TLS encryption","OTel, Logstash, Beats integration","Lexical and semantic search","Community forum support"],"description":"Open source, self-hosted Elasticsearch with community support","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Elastic Cloud (Managed)","features":["Production-focused support with weekend coverage","Hosted on major cloud providers","Cluster analysis and optimization guidance"],"description":"Fully managed deployment on AWS, GCP, or Azure with limited support","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Self-Managed","features":["24/7 expert support (1-15 minute response SLA)","GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP compliance controls","Searchable snapshots for reduced storage costs","AI/ML features: ELSER semantic search, Jina multilingual embeddings, anomaly detection","Elastic Workflows for incident response automation","Field and document-level security","SAML/SSO and audit logging","Elastic Agent Builder for RAG applications","Third-party LLM inference management"],"description":"Self-hosted on your infrastructure with advanced security, compliance, and AI capabilities","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free open source tier. Managed cloud from $0. Enterprise self-managed pricing available upon request.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T11:04:49.710Z","freeTrialDays":14,"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | - |
| pricing.transparent | no | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.95 | - |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA","status":"active"}]` |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.elastic.co/legal/ethics-and-compliance | https://www.sinequa.com/product/security/ |

## Capabilities (AI Enterprise Search)

| Capability | Elastic Enterprise Search | Sinequa |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Deployment model | Hybrid | Hybrid |
| Source system RBAC permissions mirroring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Generative AI answer synthesis rag | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hybrid dense and sparse lexical reranking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pre built native crawlers for 100 plus saas apps | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi lingual semantic understanding | ✓ | - |
| Personalization based on user department context | ✓ | ✓ |
| Optical character recognition OCR for pdfs | ✓ | - |
| Admin dashboard for search analytics and gaps | ✓ | - |
| Bring your own LLM byo model support | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOC2 type ii | - | ✓ |
| HIPAA compliance for medical records | - | ✓ |
| Pricing model | Tiered cloud consumption | - |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:30:25.714Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*