# Deep Lake vs Faiss

| Attribute | Deep Lake | Faiss |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 65.7 (37% (low)) | 62 (36% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 47 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 1,384 | 5,592 |
| adoption.github_stars | 9,228 | 40,809 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 28,208 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Deep Lake is a data engine optimized for AI that combines vector and tensor storage with GPU acceleration, offering versioned data, full-text search, and serverless query capabilities for machine learning and AI agent applications. | Faiss is a library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors. It contains algorithms that search in sets of vectors of any size, up to ones that possibly do not fit in RAM. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"source_available","product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true}` | `{"ann_index":"HNSW, IVF, PQ, multi-index, NSG","deployment":"self_hosted","serverless":false,"quantization":"product","storage_tier":"disk_backed","licence_class":"permissive_oss","product_class":"extension","distance_metrics":"Euclidean (L2), inner product, L1, Linf","horizontal_scale":"single_node"}` |
| language.primary | C++ | C++ |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Basic","summary":"Free $15 credit, then $0.15/compute-unit/hr + $23/TB/mo storage","features":["Pay as you go compute","Daily backups with 1-day retention","SSO (Google/Microsoft)","MFA","1 business day support"],"components":[{"kind":"one_time","amount":15,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"compute-unit-hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.15,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"TB/month"},"kind":"metered","amount":23,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Testing & starter projects with pay-as-you-go pricing","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"500 GB","compute_credit":"$15"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$99/seat/month, 7-day free trial","features":["1M traces/month per seat","10M queries/month per seat","Daily backups with 1-day retention","SSO (Google/Microsoft)","MFA","1 business day support","7-day free trial"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Per-seat collaboration for teams","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"500 GB","traces_per_month_per_seat":"1M","queries_per_month_per_seat":"10M"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Data Transfer (Egress)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.09,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $99/seat/month (Team) or pay-as-you-go Basic with $15 credit. 7-day free trial available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.activeloop.ai","retrievedAt":"2026-08-05T13:08:11.282Z","freeTrialDays":7,"startingPrice":{"amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://faiss.ai","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T20:46:34.341Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | high | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | 11 | 83 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.1 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=deeplake&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=faiss-cpu&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | Deep Lake | Faiss |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed | Self-hosted |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | ✓ | ✗ |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | - | HNSW, IVF, PQ, multi-index, NSG |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | - | Euclidean (L2), inner product, L1, Linf |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Metadata filtering | - | - |
| Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion) | ✓ | - |
| Built-in BM25 / lexical | ✓ | - |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Quantization | - | Product |
| On-disk vs in-memory | - | Disk-backed |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants) | - | - |
| Horizontal scale | - | Single-node |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | - | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Source-available | Permissive OSS |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS | Extension |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:57:10.672Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*