# Sinequa vs Vespa

| Attribute | Sinequa | Vespa |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 66.2 (30% (low)) | 58 (75% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 7 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 7,129 |
| content.faq | `[{"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}]` | `[{"answer":"A distributed serving engine that unifies retrieval, ranking, machine learning inference, and real-time serving for business-critical AI applications. It is indexed under Search Engines.","source":"https://vespa.ai/pricing/","question":"What is Vespa?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Vespa offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://vespa.ai/pricing/","question":"Is Vespa free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Vespa supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://vespa.ai/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Vespa support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Vespa can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://vespa.ai/pricing/","question":"Can Vespa be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 12 integrations for Vespa, including Python, Cohere, TwelveLabs, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini, Cursor and VSCode, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://vespa.ai/pricing/","question":"What does Vespa integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Vespa. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Vespa not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://trust.vespa.ai","question":"What security certifications does Vespa have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Vespa 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/vespa-engine/vespa","question":"Is Vespa open source?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Vespa is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in Norway.","source":"https://vespa.ai/pricing/","question":"Where is Vespa available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | A distributed search and AI platform that handles vectors, tensors, text, and structured data at scale, delivering sub-100ms query latency with continuous data updates and machine-learned relevance ranking. |
| features.capabilities | `{"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}` | `{"deployment":"self_hosted","distributed":"sharded","index_engine":"custom","licence_class":"permissive_oss","vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","typo_tolerance":"configurable","deployment_model":"hybrid","relevance_tuning":"ranking_rules","realtime_indexing":"near_real_time","generative_ai_answer_synthesis_rag":true,"multi_lingual_semantic_understanding":true,"hybrid_dense_and_sparse_lexical_reranking":true}` |
| integrations.count | 200 | 12 |
| integrations.list | `[{"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"}]` | `[{"name":"Python"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"TwelveLabs"},{"name":"Claude Code"},{"name":"OpenAI Codex"},{"name":"Google Gemini"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"VSCode"},{"name":"IntelliJ"},{"name":"PyCharm"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"GCP"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Java |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","FR"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"NO","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"type":"free","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://vespa.ai","retrievedAt":"2026-10-14T11:26:49.809Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | free |
| pricing.price_level | - | free |
| pricing.transparent | - | no |
| release.cadence_days | - | 3 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/lsp-v2.6.1","date":"2026-10-06T14:56:06Z","type":"stable","version":"lsp-v2.6.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.763.13","date":"2026-10-05T02:26:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.763.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.753.16","date":"2026-09-16T23:24:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.753.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/lsp-v2.6.0","date":"2026-09-16T09:27:29Z","type":"stable","version":"lsp-v2.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.751.13","date":"2026-09-07T02:23:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.751.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.750.13","date":"2026-09-03T05:43:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.750.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.748.3","date":"2026-09-01T07:14:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.748.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.746.22","date":"2026-09-01T07:14:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.746.22"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/lsp-v2.5.0","date":"2026-08-24T08:45:45Z","type":"stable","version":"lsp-v2.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.738.17","date":"2026-08-13T04:51:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.738.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.736.12","date":"2026-08-10T02:24:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.736.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.733.3","date":"2026-08-05T09:03:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.733.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.730.36","date":"2026-07-28T04:47:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.730.36"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.719.5","date":"2026-07-07T02:30:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.719.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.709.19","date":"2026-06-18T18:42:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.709.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.708.30","date":"2026-06-18T04:26:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.708.30"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.707.16","date":"2026-06-16T14:15:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.707.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.703.17","date":"2026-06-09T16:31:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.703.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/v8.702.91","date":"2026-06-09T02:20:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.702.91"},{"url":"https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/releases/tag/lsp-v2.4.10","date":"2026-06-08T04:18:37Z","type":"stable","version":"lsp-v2.4.10"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 5.9 |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.sinequa.com/product/security/ | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=com.yahoo.vespa%3Acontainer-test&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (AI Enterprise Search)

| Capability | Sinequa | Vespa |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 | - | - |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T21:00:21.008Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*