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Epsilla vs Vald

No leader: the top candidate Epsilla has only 0.30 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Epsilla full profile →Vald full profile →
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Epsilla78
Vald48
Score
Vioscale score
Epsilla78 / 100low · 30%
Vald48 / 100low · 36%
Pricing
Free tier
Epsilla✓
Vald–
Model
Epsillafreemium
Vald–
Price level
Epsillamid
Vald–
Transparent
Epsilla✓
Vald–
Security
Scorecard
Epsilla–
Vald6.6
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Epsilla99.9
Vald–
Status page
Epsilla✓
Vald✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Epsilla–
Vald1
Github stars
Epsilla–
Vald1,718
Activity
Commits last 30d
Epsilla–
Vald18
Release
Cadence days
Epsilla–
Vald51
History
Epsilla–
Vald20 items
License
Spdx
Epsilla–
ValdApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Epsilla–
ValdGo

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for vector databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
EpsillaManaged
ValdSelf-hosted
Serverless / consumption pricing
Epsilla✓
Vald-
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
Epsilla-
ValdNGT
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
Epsilla-
Vald-
Query
Metadata filtering
Epsilla-
Vald-
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
Epsilla-
Vald-
Built-in BM25 / lexical
Epsilla-
Vald-
Storage
Quantization
Epsilla-
Vald-
On-disk vs in-memory
Epsilla-
ValdDisk-backed
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
Epsilla✓
Vald-
Horizontal scale
Epsilla-
ValdSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
Epsilla-
Vald-
Licensing
Licence class
EpsillaProprietary
Vald-
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
EpsillaFeature of parent
ValdDedicated DBMS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Epsilla

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.

Independently observed

Vald

Vald is a cloud-native vector search platform running on Kubernetes that uses NGT for efficient nearest-neighbor search. It provides automatic indexing and backups, index replication across distributed agents, and horizontal scaling to handle billions of vectors.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Epsilla

from $29/moSubscriptionFree tier

Free tier through $2,499/month. Custom pricing for Enterprise. Metered add-ons $2–39/month.

  • Free TierFree
    • 1 Team Member
    • 1 Project
    • 1 AI Application
    • 1 Knowledge Base
    • 10M Vector Storage
    • +3 more
  • Starter Tier$29/month
    • 2 Team Members
    • 1 Project
    • 5 AI Applications
    • 5 Knowledge Bases
    • 1G Vector Storage
    • +2 more
  • Professional Tier$249/month
    • 20 Team Members
    • 10 Projects
    • 50 AI Applications
    • 50 Knowledge Bases
    • 10G Vector Storage
    • +3 more
  • AI Concierge$2,499/month
    • Everything in Professional
    • Fractional Forward Deployed AI Engineer
    • Done-For-You AI Agent & Workflow Build-Out
    • Domain-to-AI Enablement
    • Weekly Strategy & Review Calls
    • +3 more
  • Enterprise TierContact sales
    • Unlimited Team Members
    • Unlimited Projects
    • Unlimited AI Applications
    • Unlimited Knowledge Bases
    • Unlimited Vector Storage
    • +6 more
as of verify ↗

Vald

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Epsilla✓
Vald–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Epsilla✓
Vald✓
Self-hosted
Epsilla✓
Vald✓
On-premise
Epsilla✓
Vald✗

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.