Deep Lake

Serverless multimodal data platform designed for AI and LLM applications, offering unified storage, search, and management of diverse data types including embed

Vendor
Activeloop
Also known as
deep-lake

Available worldwide

What is Deep Lake?

A cloud-based data management system for storing and organizing multimodal data (embeddings, images, videos, audio, text, PDFs, and other formats) with integrated vector search and querying capabilities, enabling scalable machine learning model training and deployment.

Independently observed

Deep Lake pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $99/moHybridFree tier7-day trial

From $99/seat/month (Team) or pay-as-you-go Basic with $15 credit. 7-day free trial available.

Basic

Free
Free

Testing & starter projects with pay-as-you-go pricing

storage
500 GB
compute_credit
$15
  • Pay as you go compute
  • Daily backups with 1-day retention
  • SSO (Google/Microsoft)
  • MFA
  • 1 business day support

Team

$99/seat/month, 7-day free trial
monthly

Per-seat collaboration for teams

storage
500 GB
traces_per_month_per_seat
1M
queries_per_month_per_seat
10M
  • 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

Enterprise

Contact sales
Contact sales

Add-ons

  • Data Transfer (Egress)$0.09 per GB

What Deep Lake does

The capabilities that matter for vector databases, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Deployment
Deployment
Managed
Serverless / consumption pricing
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
-
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
-
Query
Metadata filtering
-
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
Built-in BM25 / lexical
Storage
Quantization
-
On-disk vs in-memory
Tiered
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
-
Horizontal scale
-
Consistency
Consistency
-
Licensing
Licence class
Source-available
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
Dedicated DBMS
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Hybrid
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (3)

Independently observed
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • Weights & Biases

Security & compliance

Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality

Deep Lake FAQ

Common questions about Deep Lake, answered from independent, dated evidence.

What is Deep Lake?

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. It is indexed under Vector Databases.

Source: https://www.activeloop.ai

Is Deep Lake free to use?

Deep Lake is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $99 per user per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.

Source: https://www.activeloop.ai

What platforms does Deep Lake support?

We have confirmed browser-based access to Deep Lake. 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.activeloop.ai

Can Deep Lake be self-hosted?

We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Deep Lake, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.

Source: https://www.activeloop.ai

What security certifications does Deep Lake have?

We have independently confirmed GDPR for Deep Lake. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Deep Lake not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.

Source: https://www.activeloop.ai/privacy/

Is Deep Lake open source?

Yes. Deep Lake 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/activeloopai/deeplake

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Balanced composite 59 / 100
low · 38%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Release cadence940.087.6
Capabilities580.105.7
Pricing transparency1000.055.4
Stars750.053.5
Reliability500.073.4
Price level800.043.3
Dependent projects520.052.8
Package downloads550.042.2
Integrations170.050.9
Development activity00.140.0-
Security posture50.120.0-
Security score00.050.0-
Developer Q&A activity00.140.0-

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Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars9,233highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90%
Package downloads weekly16,589highsource · 2026-09-10 · 85%
Dependent repos1,384highsource · 2026-08-26 · 85%

Content

AttributeValueEvidence
Faq6 itemsmediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 68%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
CapabilitiesDeployment: managed · Serverless: Yes · Storage tier: tiered · Hybrid search: Yes · Licence class: source_available · Product class: dedicated_dbmsmediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count3mediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryC++mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 63%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxApache-2.0highsource · 2026-09-10 · 95%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
AvailabilityPrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: …highsource · 2026-08-14 · 75%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 60%
Modelfreemiummediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
Cadence days11mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 70%
History20 itemsmediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 70%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-08-14 · 75%
VulnerabilitiesCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=deeplake&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%
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