# Epsilla vs Qdrant

| Attribute | Epsilla | Qdrant |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 65.3 (29% (low)) | 55.8 (65% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 35,060 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A platform that simplifies building AI agents and knowledge-base systems for teams of any technical level. It provides enterprise-grade multi-tenancy and supports flexible deployment modes including cloud, on-premise, and private cloud. It is indexed under Vector Databases.","source":"https://epsilla.com","question":"What is Epsilla?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Epsilla offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $29 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://epsilla.com","question":"Is Epsilla free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Epsilla. 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://epsilla.com","question":"What platforms does Epsilla support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Epsilla can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://epsilla.com","question":"Can Epsilla be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6}]` | `[{"answer":"A vector database engine that provides fast similarity search over high-dimensional vectors, available in managed cloud, self-hosted open source, and hybrid deployment models for AI applications. It is indexed under Vector Databases.","source":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","question":"What is Qdrant?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Qdrant offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","question":"Is Qdrant free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Qdrant. 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://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","question":"What platforms does Qdrant support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Qdrant 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://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","question":"Can Qdrant be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 6 integrations for Qdrant, including Slack, Adobe, Hubspot, Arize, Google DeepMind and Qualcomm. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://qdrant.tech","question":"What does Qdrant integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Qdrant. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Qdrant not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://qdrant.tech","question":"What security certifications does Qdrant have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. Qdrant is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant","question":"Is Qdrant open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A platform that enables teams to build and deploy AI applications by combining language models with searchable knowledge repositories. It simplifies the setup and management of retrieval-augmented generation workflows without requiring technical engineering. | A database system designed for storing and searching vectors with comprehensive filtering capabilities. It provides production-ready APIs and tools for semantic similarity matching and embedding-based applications. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"licence_class":"proprietary","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"parent_feature"}` | `{"ann_index":"HNSW","deployment":"self_hosted","quantization":"scalar","storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"source_available","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"distance_metrics":"dot product","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed"}` |
| integrations.count | - | 4 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Adobe"},{"name":"Hubspot"},{"name":"Arize"},{"name":"Google DeepMind"},{"name":"Qualcomm"},{"name":"Cohere","native":true,"category":"embeddings","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"AWS","native":true},{"name":"GCP","native":true},{"name":"Azure","native":true},{"name":"LangChain","native":true,"category":"framework"},{"name":"FastEmbed","native":true,"category":"embedding"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage","native":false,"category":"storage"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage","native":false,"category":"storage"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Rust |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free Tier","summary":"Free","features":["1 Team Member","1 Project","1 AI Application","1 Knowledge Base","10M Vector Storage","50 Messages/Month (Powered by GPT-4.1)","Community Support","Data Cleared after 30 Days of Inactivity"],"minSeats":1,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"messages":"50/month","projects":"1","team_members":"1","vector_storage":"10M","ai_applications":"1","knowledge_bases":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Starter Tier","summary":"$29/month","features":["2 Team Members","1 Project","5 AI Applications","5 Knowledge Bases","1G Vector Storage","500 Messages/Month (Powered by GPT-4.1)","Email Support"],"minSeats":2,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"messages":"500/month","projects":"1","team_members":"2","vector_storage":"1G","ai_applications":"5","knowledge_bases":"5"}},{"free":false,"name":"Professional Tier","summary":"$249/month","features":["20 Team Members","10 Projects","50 AI Applications","50 Knowledge Bases","10G Vector Storage","5000 Messages/Month (Powered by GPT-4.1)","Dedicated Support Channel","AI Concierge"],"minSeats":20,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":249,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"messages":"5000/month","projects":"10","team_members":"20","vector_storage":"10G","ai_applications":"50","knowledge_bases":"50"}},{"free":false,"name":"AI Concierge","summary":"$2,499/month","features":["Everything in Professional","Fractional Forward Deployed AI Engineer","Done-For-You AI Agent & Workflow Build-Out","Domain-to-AI Enablement","Weekly Strategy & Review Calls","Custom Integration Support","Priority Support Channel","Ongoing Optimization"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":2499,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes fractional forward deployed AI engineer from Epsilla team","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Tier","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Unlimited Team Members","Unlimited Projects","Unlimited AI Applications","Unlimited Knowledge Bases","Unlimited Vector Storage","Unlimited Messages/Month (any LLM Provider)","Extensive White-Labeling","SSO (SAML and OIDC)","On-Prem Deployment Options","Consulting and Customization","Premium Support with SLAs"],"contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"messages":"Unlimited","projects":"Unlimited","team_members":"Unlimited","vector_storage":"Unlimited","ai_applications":"Unlimited","knowledge_bases":"Unlimited"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Team Member","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":12,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"AI Application","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"application","amount":2,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Knowledge Base","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"database","amount":2,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Vector Storage","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":18,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Messages","components":[{"per":{"qty":100,"unit":"messages"},"kind":"metered","amount":3,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Remove \"Powered By Epsilla\"","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":39,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier through $2,499/month. Custom pricing for Enterprise. Metered add-ons $2–39/month.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://epsilla.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T13:12:38.383Z","startingPrice":{"amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"usage","summary":"Usage-based pricing billed monthly based on CPU, memory, and disk storage consumption. Free tier available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-10T21:04:02.653Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | mid | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 18 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.19.2","date":"2026-10-05T14:16:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.19.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.19.1","date":"2026-09-04T07:59:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.19.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.19.0","date":"2026-08-05T11:26:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.19.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.18.3","date":"2026-07-17T13:18:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.18.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.18.2","date":"2026-06-04T06:50:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.18.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.18.1","date":"2026-05-22T12:31:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.18.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.18.0","date":"2026-05-11T15:04:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.18.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.17.1","date":"2026-03-27T08:37:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.17.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.17.0","date":"2026-02-20T11:11:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.17.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.16.3","date":"2025-12-19T17:45:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.16.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.16.2","date":"2025-12-04T11:03:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.16.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.16.1","date":"2025-11-25T17:16:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.16.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.16.0","date":"2025-11-17T14:32:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.5","date":"2025-09-30T12:23:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.4","date":"2025-08-27T11:24:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.3","date":"2025-08-14T16:30:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.2","date":"2025-08-11T18:04:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.1","date":"2025-07-24T10:18:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.0","date":"2025-07-18T13:08:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.14.1","date":"2025-05-23T13:09:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.14.1"}]` |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.9 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | - | https://qdrant.tech/documentation/security/ |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=nixpkgs&package_name=qdrant&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | Epsilla | Qdrant |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed | Self-hosted |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | ✓ | - |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | - | HNSW |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | - | dot product |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Metadata filtering | - | - |
| Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion) | - | ✓ |
| Built-in BM25 / lexical | - | ✓ |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Quantization | - | Scalar |
| On-disk vs in-memory | - | Disk-backed |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Horizontal scale | - | Sharded / distributed |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | - | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | Source-available |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Feature of parent | Dedicated DBMS |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T23:24:13.674Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*