# Deep Lake vs Qdrant

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Deep Lake

| Attribute | Deep Lake | Qdrant |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 65.7 (37% (low)) | 58.7 (60% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 1,384 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 9,228 | 34,203 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 28,208 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":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. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"source_available","product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true}` | `{"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,"horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed"}` |
| integrations.count | - | 6 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Adobe"},{"name":"Hubspot"},{"name":"Arize"},{"name":"Google DeepMind"},{"name":"Qualcomm"}]` |
| language.primary | C++ | Rust |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":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":"usage","summary":"Usage-based pricing on CPU, memory, and disk storage; charged monthly for previous month's usage","currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T12:16:09.861Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | high | unknown |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 11 | 18 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| 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=helm&package_name=cowboysysop%2Fqdrant&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | Deep Lake | Qdrant |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed | Self-hosted |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | ✓ | - |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | - | HNSW |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | - | - |
| **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 | Source-available | Source-available |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS | Dedicated DBMS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:05:48.590Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*