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Haystack vs Vectara Platform
Haystack or Vectara Platform? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In inglese
In short
- Both: Choice of models, Self-hosted, API, Builds agents and workflows, Search over your data, Traces and evaluates
- Only Vectara Platform states: Runs models for you
Haystack
Open-source Python framework for building modular AI agents, RAG systems, search, and other LLM applications.
Plans
Studio
Free
- 1 workspace
- 1 user
- 100 pipeline hours
- 50 files (max 10MB per file)
- 2 development pipelines
- Cloud deployment; Community support on Discord
Enterprise
Price on request
- Unlimited workspaces, users, files (no size limit)
- Unlimited development and production (high availability) pipelines
- Cloud or custom deployment
- Dedicated account team, solution engineers and private Slack channel
- SSO, Role-Based Access Control
- Custom package
Prices checked 2026-09-25 by web search.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “Swap models and components without rewriting your system” source
- Self-hosted — “Run Haystack in your own environment, get dedicated support or extend it with a cloud or self-hosted platform to test, deploy, and operate pipelines at scale.” source
- API — “Serve pipelines as REST APIs or MCP servers with Hayhooks.” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Haystack is an open-source AI orchestration framework built by deepset , enabling Python developers to build production-ready AI agents, multimodal applications, and advanced RAG systems .” source
- Search over your data — “Build highly performant RAG pipelines with a multitude of retrieval and generation strategies.” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Use tracing , logging , and evaluation tools to monitor retrieval quality, latency, tool usage, and outputs and iteratively refine your system.” source
Latest updates
- Haystack 3.2.0 (3.2.0)
Release notes for Haystack 3.2.0
- Haystack 3.1.1 (3.1.1)
Release notes for Haystack 3.1.1
- Haystack 3.1.0 (3.1.0)
Release notes for Haystack 3.1.0
Vectara Platform
Enterprise platform for building, deploying, and governing AI agents over business data.
Plans
30 Day Free Trial
Free
- 30 days to try Vectara
- 10,000 credits included
- All features included for 30 days
SaaS
- Starting at $100K/ year
- 1 SaaS Deployment
- 10,000,000 credits/year included with base platform package purchase
VPC
- Starting at $250K/ year
- 1 VPC Deployment (Any VPC)
- 100,000,000 credits/year included with base platform package purchase
On-prem
- Starting at $500K/ year
- 1 On-Premise Deployment
- 100,000,000 credits/year included with base platform package purchase
Prices checked 2026-09-24 by web search.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “Vectara lets you apply the retrieval LLM that best fits your use case.” source
- Self-hosted — “Vectara is available as a service on-premises, within your VPC, or via SaaS.” source
- API — “One easy-to-use API to enable 100s of use cases” source
- Runs models for you — “Vectara's own RAG-optimized Generative LLM” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Vectara provides the industry's highest accuracy and lowest hallucination rates.” source
- Search over your data — “Vectara employs agentic extraction from documents, neural and lexical search, knowledge re-ranking, and customized generation.” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Vectara flips the script, providing granular observability and proactive Guardian Agents.” source
Latest updates
- LLM Token Quotas and Per-Agent Quotas
Cap input and output tokens per minute, UTC day, and UTC month for an LLM or agent.
- Confluence Ingests Attachments and Embedded Images
A Confluence pipeline source ingests page attachments as records and inlines images embedded in page bodies.
- Ingest Multiple S3 Prefixes in One Pipeline
An S3 pipeline source scopes ingestion with prefixes, a list of up to 100 key prefixes.