Vectara Reviews in 2025

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Companies interested in a powerful AI neural search solution for sites, documents, and apps

About Vectara

Vectara is LLM-powered search-as-a-service. The platform provides a complete ML search pipeline from extraction and indexing to retrieval, re-ranking and calibration. Every element of the platform is API-addressable. Developers can embed the most advanced NLP models for app and site search in minutes.

Vectara automatically extracts text from PDF and Office to JSON, HTML, XML, CommonMark, and many more. Encode at scale with cutting edge zero-shot models using deep neural networks optimized for language understanding. Segment data into any number of indexes storing vector encodings optimized for low latency and high recall. Recall candidate results from millions of documents using cutting-edge, zero-shot neural network models. Increase the precision of retrieved results with cross-attentional neural networks to merge and reorder results. Zero in on the true likelihoods that the retrieved response represents a probable answer to the query.

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