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          "Self-hosted telemetry is on by default, and the docs say it may be shared with third parties to find customers",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weaviate.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/weaviate.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Epsilla Vector Database for reliability (+20).\n\nPick Weaviate API + MCP for schema \u0026 documentation (+46), agent ergonomics (+45), security \u0026 auth (+54), payments \u0026 pricing (+10), maintenance \u0026 community (+82), transparency \u0026 trust (+6).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Epsilla Vector Database | Weaviate API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 35 | Epsilla Vector Database +20 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 36 | 82 | Weaviate API + MCP +46 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 47 | 92 | Weaviate API + MCP +45 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 25 | 79 | Weaviate API + MCP +54 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Weaviate API + MCP +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 8 | 90 | Weaviate API + MCP +82 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 71 | Weaviate API + MCP +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **36 · F** | **68.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Epsilla Vector Database | Weaviate API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Epsilla | Weaviate |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://dispatch.epsilla.com/api/v3` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | GPL-3.0 | BSD-3-Clause (some parts under the Weaviate License) |\n| Tools exposed | none | 4 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2025-11-29 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Popularity | 875 stars, 75 npm/wk, 125 PyPI/wk | 17k stars, 406k npm/wk, 2.3M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Epsilla Vector Database.** GPL-3.0 server you can run from one Docker image. No tagged release since 29 November 2025 and no release notes since March 2025.\n\n**Weaviate API + MCP.** Built-in MCP server with 4 typed tools, readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints on each, and write tools hidden until enabled. No public status page or incident history.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Epsilla Vector Database\n\n1. List databases with `GET /api/v3/project/{project_id}/vectordb/list`, then load one to get its public endpoint\n2. Hybrid search is assembled client-side with `as_search_engine().add_retriever(...).set_reranker(type=\"rrf\")`\n3. If you use pyepsilla against the cloud, patch or wrap it to verify TLS\n4. Ask a person to create the database in the console first. The API can't\n\n### Weaviate API + MCP\n\n1. Call `weaviate-collections-get-config` first so the model sees property names before it writes a filter\n2. `weaviate-query-hybrid` defaults `alpha` to 0.75, so lower it for keyword-heavy queries\n3. Turn on the read-only toggle in Weaviate Cloud before giving an agent the MCP endpoint\n4. Set object IDs with `generate_uuid5` so a retried import doesn't create duplicates\n5. Free clusters hold one collection. Use tenants rather than extra collections\n\n## Other comparisons with Epsilla Vector Database or Weaviate API + MCP\n\n- [Chroma API + MCP vs Epsilla Vector Database](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chroma-vs-epsilla.md)\n- [Chroma API + MCP vs Weaviate API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chroma-vs-weaviate.md)\n- [Epsilla Vector Database vs LanceDB](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/epsilla-vs-lancedb.md)\n- [Epsilla Vector Database vs Milvus and Zilliz Cloud API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/epsilla-vs-milvus-zilliz.md)\n- [Epsilla Vector Database vs Pinecone API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/epsilla-vs-pinecone.md)\n- [Epsilla Vector Database vs Qdrant API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/epsilla-vs-qdrant.md)\n- [Epsilla Vector Database vs Typesense API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/epsilla-vs-typesense.md)\n- [Epsilla Vector Database vs Upstash Vector API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/epsilla-vs-upstash-vector.md)\n- [LanceDB vs Weaviate API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lancedb-vs-weaviate.md)\n- [Milvus and Zilliz Cloud API + MCP vs Weaviate API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/milvus-zilliz-vs-weaviate.md)\n- [Pinecone API + MCP vs Weaviate API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pinecone-vs-weaviate.md)\n- [Qdrant API + MCP vs Weaviate API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qdrant-vs-weaviate.md)\n- [Typesense API + MCP vs Weaviate API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/typesense-vs-weaviate.md)\n- [Upstash Vector API + MCP vs Weaviate API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/upstash-vector-vs-weaviate.md)\n",
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