Vector databases · Named, not rankedVespa
Vespa is a vector database used for hybrid search with learned ranking, available as the managed service Vespa Cloud · vespa.ai ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Vespa has 5.
Why models recommend it
“Pick Vespa if your app needs vector + keyword + structured retrieval plus custom ranking in one engine.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Vespa, over the 9 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 2 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Vespa's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- dev, production, and enterprise support
- Price stated
- pay only for what you use, with tiers for dev, production, and enterprise support, plus $300 in free credits
- Free plan or trial
- $300 in free credits
- Customers named
- Perplexity, Spotify, Yahoo, Onyx, Kleinanzeigen, Metal AI, Clarm, DeviantArt
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 7 of the 9 answers that named Vespa and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty-four of the twenty-four domain citations in answers naming Vespa came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 347 | 4 | 2026-09-13 | Vector databases | |
| Glossary or explainer | 32 | 1 | 2026-07-07 | ||
| Conference or event | 8 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 8 | 0 | 2025-12-29 | ||
| Case study | 3 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 2 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 2 | undated | |||
| News or press | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-13Public mcp interns blog
- 2026-09-08Vespa newsletter sept 2026 blog
- 2026-08-10The human context advantage blog
- 2026-07-07Your agent wants to search like a 2010 quant blog
- 2026-07-07What is retrieval engineering glossary or explainer
- 2026-05-29Re autoresearching msmarco bm25 on vespa blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page vespa.ai exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.