# Cloudflare AI Search vs Vespa (slim)

> Cloudflare AI Search scores 73.5 (BB) to Vespa's 70 (BB) for db hybrid. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Cloudflare AI Search scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Vespa's 70 (BB), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Vespa leads on reliability, security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do db hybrid.

- Cloudflare AI Search: BB 73.5, rank #92 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-search.min.md
- Vespa: BB 70, rank #176 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vespa.min.md
- Cloudflare AI Search, good for Teams already on Cloudflare that want a managed retrieval index over their own documents or website, with hybrid search and a ready MCP endpoint, without running a vector database. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 89 against 58; Agent ergonomics, 88 against 80; Payments & pricing, 45 against 40. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 3.0 out of 5.
- Vespa, good for Teams that need hybrid retrieval with custom ranking at scale and can maintain a schema and application package. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 70; Security & auth, 75 against 68; Maintenance & community, 91 against 78; Transparency & trust, 85 against 73. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Cloudflare AI Search | Vespa |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 89 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 88 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 75 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 45 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 91 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 85 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cloudflare AI Search | Vespa |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Vespa.ai AS |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Price for db hybrid | $0.75 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement. The `cloudflare` SDKs are Apache-2.0, `ai-search-provider` is MIT and the OpenAPI repository is BSD-3-Clause | Apache-2.0 for the engine, the Vespa CLI and pyvespa. Vespa Cloud is a paid hosted service |
| Tools exposed | 1 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 86 npm/wk | 7.1k stars, 180k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |