Vespa.ai AS
Vespa.ai provides an AI search platform designed for developing and operating large-scale applications that integrate big data, vector search, and machine-learned ranking.
At a Glance
- Enterprise
- Fortune 500
- Financial Services
- Health & Life Sciences
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Vespa.ai
AI Search and Ranking Platform
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Products & Services
A fully managed service for running Vespa applications, offering various plans from Startup to Enterprise.
The core AI search platform for large-scale applications integrating big data, vector search, and ML ranking.
Market Position
Positioned as a high-performance, cost-effective alternative to Elasticsearch, offering up to 5x infrastructure cost savings and superior scaling for AI-driven search.
Leadership
Founders
Jon Bratseth
Founder & CEO. Architect and main contributor to Vespa. Over 20 years of experience as an architect and programmer on large distributed systems, previously VP Architect at Yahoo.
Kim O. Johansen
Founder & COO. Over 20 years of experience as a manager for the development of large distributed systems.
Frode Lundgren
Founder & CTO. Over 20 years of experience managing teams and products using and operating large-scale Vespa applications.
Kristian Aune
Founder & Head of Customer Success. Over 20 years working with Vespa application owners, developers, PMs, and Ops; focused on operations, cost, and service quality.
Executive Team
Jon Bratseth
CEO
20+ years experience in distributed systems; Vespa architect.
Kim O. Johansen
COO
20+ years experience in distributed systems management.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Vespa began as an internal project at Yahoo to solve search, recommendation, and ad-serving use cases. It was open-sourced in 2017. In October 2023, Yahoo spun Vespa out as an independent company, Vespa.ai, while retaining a stake.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Resource-based usage model for Vespa Cloud (SaaS) and support/licensing for self-managed deployments.
Pricing Tiers
Shared resources, community support, dev-zone only. vCPU: $0.05/hr, Memory: $0.005/GB/hr.
Suitable for non-24/7 apps; production support next business day. vCPU: $0.09/hr, Memory: $0.009/GB/hr.
24/7 production support with 1-hour response. vCPU: $0.15/hr, Memory: $0.015/GB/hr.
24/7 15-min response, SSO, named support rep, dedicated Slack. vCPU: $0.18/hr, Memory: $0.018/GB/hr.
Customer runs Vespa with expert support from Vespa.ai.
Target Markets
- Enterprise
- Fortune 500
- Financial Services
- Health & Life Sciences
- Tech Startups
- E-commerce search and recommendation
- Personalization systems
- Fraud detection
- Financial research and intelligence
- Health and life sciences data discovery
- Generative AI / RAG applications
- Spotify
- Yahoo
- Perplexity
- RavenPack