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Vespa vs Typesense: catalog facts
Vespa	Typesense
Freemium Free and open source to self-host; Vespa Cloud is a paid service with a free trial.	Freemium Free to self-host under GPL-3.0; Typesense Cloud is a paid hosted option.
Web, Self-hosted	Linux, Self-hosted
Text, vector and hybrid retrieval with ranking in one engine Runs machine-learned models at query time	Typo tolerance out of the box Vector, hybrid and geo search
Aimed at engineering teams rather than individual users Larger setup and learning effort than simpler search servers	In-memory index means RAM must fit the dataset Aimed at developers building search, not end users
Self-hosted, Hosted service	Downloadable app, Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: GPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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