# txtai vs Vald

**Leader by Vioscale score:** txtai

| Attribute | txtai | Vald |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 62.9 (56% (medium)) | 48.4 (36% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 70 | 18 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 14 | 1 |
| adoption.github_stars | 12,909 | 1,718 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | txtai is an open-source Python framework for building semantic search applications, LLM-powered agents, retrieval augmented generation systems, and language model workflows with support for multiple vector backends and integration with various LLMs. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"ann_index":"HNSW, IVF, IVFSparse, milvus-lite, turbovec, zvec","deployment":"embedded","consistency":"tunable","open_source":true,"quantization":"scalar","storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"permissive_oss","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"multimodal_rag":true,"distance_metrics":"cosine","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","hybrid_retrieval":true,"metadata_filtering":"pre_filter","citation_attribution":true,"llm_provider_agnostic":true,"managed_ingestion_pipeline":true,"embedding_provider_agnostic":true,"multi_hop_agentic_retrieval":true}` | `{"ann_index":"NGT","deployment":"self_hosted","storage_tier":"disk_backed","product_class":"dedicated_dbms","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed"}` |
| integrations.count | 10 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"llama.cpp"},{"name":"LiteLLM"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"smolagents"},{"name":"OpenCode"},{"name":"DuckDB"},{"name":"Milvus"},{"name":"LiteRT"}]` | - |
| language.primary | Python | Go |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://neuml.github.io/txtai","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T12:43:59.946Z"}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | open_source | - |
| pricing.price_level | free | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | 26 | 51 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.scorecard | 4.9 | 6.6 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=txtai&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fvdaas%2Fvald&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | txtai | Vald |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Embedded | Self-hosted |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | - | - |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | HNSW, IVF, IVFSparse, milvus-lite, turbovec, zvec | NGT |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | cosine | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Metadata filtering | Pre-filter | - |
| Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion) | ✓ | - |
| Built-in BM25 / lexical | ✓ | - |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Quantization | Scalar | - |
| On-disk vs in-memory | Disk-backed | Disk-backed |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants) | ✓ | - |
| Horizontal scale | Sharded / distributed | Sharded / distributed |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | Tunable | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | - |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS | Dedicated DBMS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:33:40.124Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*