# Elastic Enterprise Search vs Sinequa

| Attribute | Elastic Enterprise Search | Sinequa |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 45.3 (75% (high)) | 78.6 (21% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A distributed, full-text and vector search engine that enables organizations to ingest, analyze, and act on data at scale. Available as open source, managed cloud service, or self-hosted with enterprise features for security monitoring, observability, and compliance requirements. | A secure enterprise platform integrating data across organizational systems to enable AI-powered search, intelligent assistants, and autonomous agents that operate within role-based access controls and compliance frameworks. |
| features.capabilities | `{"pricing_model":"tiered_cloud_consumption","deployment_model":"hybrid","generative_ai_answer_synthesis_rag":true,"bring_your_own_llm_byo_model_support":true,"multi_lingual_semantic_understanding":true,"source_system_rbac_permissions_mirroring":true,"hybrid_dense_and_sparse_lexical_reranking":true,"admin_dashboard_for_search_analytics_and_gaps":true,"personalization_based_on_user_department_context":true,"pre_built_native_crawlers_for_100_plus_saas_apps":true}` | `{"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,"pre_built_native_crawlers_for_100_plus_saas_apps":true}` |
| integrations.count | 19 | 200 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Beats"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Elastic Connectors"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud"},{"name":"IBM watsonx"},{"name":"Vectorize.io"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"Splunk"},{"name":"Webhooks"}]` | `[{"name":"Microsoft Azure"},{"name":"Microsoft 365"},{"name":"Microsoft Copilot"},{"name":"ChatGPT Enterprise"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","FR"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true,"linux":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["Distributed search and analytics engine","Basic authentication, RBAC, TLS encryption","OTel, Logstash, Beats integration","Lexical and semantic search","Community forum support"],"description":"Open source, self-hosted Elasticsearch with community support","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Elastic Cloud (Managed)","features":["Production-focused support with weekend coverage","Hosted on major cloud providers","Cluster analysis and optimization guidance"],"description":"Fully managed deployment on AWS, GCP, or Azure with limited support","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Self-Managed","features":["24/7 expert support (1-15 minute response SLA)","GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP compliance controls","Searchable snapshots for reduced storage costs","AI/ML features: ELSER semantic search, Jina multilingual embeddings, anomaly detection","Elastic Workflows for incident response automation","Field and document-level security","SAML/SSO and audit logging","Elastic Agent Builder for RAG applications","Third-party LLM inference management"],"description":"Self-hosted on your infrastructure with advanced security, compliance, and AI capabilities","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free open source tier. Managed cloud from $0. Enterprise self-managed pricing available upon request.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T11:04:49.710Z","freeTrialDays":14,"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | - |
| pricing.transparent | no | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.95 | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |

## Capabilities (AI Enterprise Search)

| Capability | Elastic Enterprise Search | Sinequa |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 | Tiered cloud consumption | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:14:38.470Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*