02 / Category
Search & Vector DBs
Search engines and vector databases exposing indexing, querying, and ranking through APIs. Includes traditional search, hybrid search, and pure vector retrieval.
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Ranked by band, then Headless Index
28 vendors scored
| Algolia | B | 72/100 | 84.9/100 | AUG 20, 2026 | -28 |
| Pinecone | B | 70/100 | 90.5/100 | AUG 20, 2026 | -16 |
| Zilliz Cloud | B | 68/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| Apache Solr | B | 66/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| Qdrant | B | 66/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | +66 |
| Meilisearch | B | 66/100 | 84/100 | AUG 20, 2026 | -22 |
| Manticore Search | B | 66/100 | — | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| Vectara | B | 64/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| LanceDB | B | 64/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| Exa | B | 63/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| Weaviate | B | 62/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | -20 |
| ParadeDB | B | 62/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| Chroma | B | 62/100 | 86.9/100 | AUG 20, 2026 | +62 |
| Brave Search API | B | 62/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| Milvus | B | 60/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | +60 |
| Elasticsearch | C | 72/100 | 52.8/100 | AUG 20, 2026 | -18 |
| Typesense | C | 58/100 | 89.4/100 | AUG 20, 2026 | -24 |
| Linkup | C | 56/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| Redis Vector | C | 55/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| OpenSearch | C | 54/100 | 55.3/100 | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| Tavily | C | 50/100 | 84.4/100 | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| Vespa | C | 48/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| Turbopuffer | D | 36/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | +36 |
| MyScale | D | 34/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| Marqo | D | 32/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| You.com | F | 13/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| TopK | F | 13/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
| Trieve | F | 0/100 | N/A | AUG 20, 2026 | — |
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